maslach and jackson first introduced the concept of ‘burnout’- a state of physical and emotional exhaus- tion emerging from work conditions- in 1980. the importance of investigations of burn out lies in the fact that it is directly related to the quality of teaching. there are three basic criteria set to predict, evaluate, and prevent burnout: depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, and person...

As arecognized psychological construct, anxietyplays aninfluential role in the invaluable experience of learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This affective factor has appealed lots of researchersinto examination of anxiety levels and severityin a wide variety of academic and nonacademic contexts since the last three decades; however there are several unexplored EFL settings overlooked ...

The present study tried to investigate the association(s) between Emotional Intelligence (EQ, also EI) and Test Anxiety among Iranian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) university students. To this aim, 100 EFL students were asked to complete the "Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire" and the "Test Anxiety Scale". The data were analyzed by the use of descriptive statistics, correlation analysi...

Best Student Paper Award in the Seventeenth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2006. Distinction in Teaching Honor to be awarded by CS Department, Stanford University. Best Summer Project Award, IBM India Research Lab, 2000. Young Engineering Fellowship offered by IISc, Bangalore, India – Selection in 2000. Summer Research Fellowship offered by Jawaharlal Nehru Center for ...

Few tests were delivered using mobile phones a few years ago, but the flexibility and capability of these devices make them valuable tools even for high stakes testing. This paper addresses research done through the PAULEX (2007-2010) and OPENPAU (2012-2014) research projects at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and Universidad de Alcalá (Spain) to provide a powerful but low cost delivery...

In the sequel, we tackle a real-world problem: forming examination boards for the university-entrance exams at the autonomous region of Asturias (Spain). We formulate the problem, propose a heuristic GRASP-like method to solve it and show some experimental results to support our proposal.