The present study intended to determine the priority areas for nature-based tourism in Isfahan province, Iran. Considering the components in question, this study was applied-developmental in nature and its methodology was descriptive-survey based on a systematic analysis of the potentials utilization, potential assessment and identification of priority areas and their combination. To carry out ...

The paradigm shift from testing the outcome to assessing the learning of process shines a light on the alternative assessment approaches, among which portfolio-assessment has sparked researchers’ interest in writing instruction. This study aimed at investigating the effect of portfolio-assessment on Iranian EFL students’ writing achievement through the process-centered approach to writi...

Help desk systems have become increasingly important in the efforts of corporations to maintain customer satisfaction, and Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) p rovides promising techniques for use in the improvement of such systems. This paper describes multiple interface modes by which customer service operators can respond rapidly to customer-initiated inquiries, retrieving/storing case data from/int...

Assessment of additional testing needs under REACH Effects of (Q)SARS, risk based testing and voluntary industry initiatives Alternative testing approaches under REACH 2 Summary In September 2003 a report was published on the impact of the REACH system on the need for further testing taking into account already existing obligations and voluntary initiatives and applying certain assumptions rega...

Performance assessment is exceedingly considered a key concept in teacher education programs worldwide. Accordingly, in Iran, a national assessment system was proposed by Farhangian University to assess the professional competencies of its ELT graduates. The concerns regarding the validity and authenticity of traditional measures of teachers' competencies have motivated us to devise a localized...

mentation of DISXPERT, an intelligent rule-based system tool for referral of social security disability recipients to vocational rehabilitation services. The growing use of paraprofessionals as caseworkers responsible for assessment in the social services area provides fertile domain areas for new and innovative application of intelligent system technology. The main function of DISXPERT is to p...

In this paper we define a model-based risk assessment procedure that integrates automatic risk assessment by static analysis, semiautomatic risk assessment and guided manual risk assessment. In this process probability and impact criteria are determined by metrics which are combined to estimate the risk of specific system development artifacts. The risk values are propagated to the assigned tes...

The recent financial turbulences raise questions on how risk analysis is conducted. Regulatory requirements and professional standards have been introduced in the last decade in order to obtain a more reliable internal control on financial reporting process with a new emphasis on business processes. However, there are no standards yet available on how business processes should be captured for f...