What should be taught in a library instruction program for general biology students is presented and two ways of providing the instruction are discussed. The two methods, lecture-demonstration and guided exercise (form of programmed instruction), are described, and evaluated for their effectiveness. The evaluations considered are students' ability to collect a satisfactory bibliography, scores ...

It has also been generally recognised that content is a major concern for effective e-learning. And, not surprisingly, a lot of the effort is focused on content development. Internationally too, content is a major focus area in e-learning and its variants. The topic of content design from the perspective of designing effective content is also one of serious research interest. RC Clark's work in...

This research chiefly focused on the application of mitigation strategies and traditional form of feedback in writing development of the fifth semester University students majoring in TEFL and English Translation fields based on Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory in general and the notion of “Zone of Proximal Development” in particular. To that end, this study relied on a pre-posttest experimental...

In this study, the researchers investigated a critical aspect of EFL/ESL writing pedagogy-the impact of teacher written commentary on student writer’s earlier drafts. Compositions of 80 Iranian undergraduate English majors were commented on using a trio of imperatives, statements, and questions on both content and form. Overall, the results indicated that the comments in the imperative form hel...

This article abbreviatedly introduced the main idea of research done by Chan and Li, which explored how effective oral remedial instruction with consciousness-raising method is. The was completed several control groups through pre-test, post-test, delayed post-test. Although confirmed that approach could benefit for second language learners to notice their morpho-syntactically well-defined erro...

this study examines the educational ideas of zoroastrianism based on gathas. for achieving this purpose, the conclusion method has been used; firstly, zoroaster has been introduced then the philosophical foundations of the religion have been formulized in the form of ideal human being and his/her features. finally, the implications of these foundations are presented in the form of educational c...

The paper describes activities leading to support of an academic instruction and industrial training in the area of time critical software development. Most of the modern software deals with external interfaces and has to consider various timing implications. Familiarity with real-time concepts and proper use of software engineering process to develop real-time software became the critical comp...

for DBER Group Discussion on 2015-10-22 Presenter(s), Department(s): Trisha L. Vickrey, Kaitlyn Rosploch, and Marilyne Stains Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Title: Measurement of Faculty’s Fidelity of Implementation of Peer Instruction following an Intensive Professional Development Workshop Abstract: Peer Instruction is an evidence-based instructional strategy that ha...