Since the early 1960s, a number of instruments, reflecting a broad range of assessment methods, have been developed to assist in the evaluation of competency to stand trial. These instruments have taken various forms including checklists, self-report questionnaires, sentence-completion tasks, and interview-based instruments with and without criterion-based scoring. This article reviews these as...

An Opinion Survey on the Appropriateness of the Calligraphy Used in the First Grade's Farsi Textbook H. Ghamari, Ph.D. To assess the appropriateness of the calligraphy used in the first grade's Farsi textbook, the opinions of a large number of head teachers, teachers, students, and calligraphists across five provinces were surveyed. The instruments used in data collection were a q...

The study aimed to evaluate the textbook of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at primary level in comparison Oxford Modern English Textbook and Cambridge Scholar Standard series Pakistan. objectives are: (1) illustrate importance textbooks language learning level, (2) analyze used (3) propose/suggest parameters for designing effective level. researchers adopted a 75- items evaluative checklist presented by Mc...

As hypertext systems become widely available and their popularity increases, attention has turned to converting existing textual documents into hypertextual form. An important issue in this area is the fully automatic production of hypertext for learning, teaching, training, or self-referencing. Although many studies have addressed the problem of producing hy-per-books, either manually or semi-...

The research analyzed the limitations of existing Chinese language textbooks in Sri Lanka and proposed a tentative checklist for evaluating localized textbooks. discourse on effectiveness global local contexts need such had seen new paradigm shifts parallel to transformations environments. A majority institutes programs teaching as Foreign Language were using CFL their main study material, not ...

The present qualitative research, for the first time, aimed at comparing and contrasting the extent cultural components and subcomponents are represented in the elementary levels of A Course in General Persian and Top Notch Series as foreign language teaching textbooks. The adapted checklist of Lee's Big ‘C' and little ‘c' cultural components (2009) was used for the current study.  After conten...

As medicine leans increasingly on mathematics no clinician can afford to leave the statistical aspects of a paper to the "experts." If you are numerate, try the "Basic Statistics for Clinicians" series in the Canadian Medical Association Journal,1 2 3 4 or a more mainstream statistical textbook.5 If, on the other hand, you find statistics impossibly difficult, this article and the next in this ...

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) are developing branches of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction in Iran. These branches have a marginal status in the tertiary education, and the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology’s high commission offers no clear guidance for selecting and developing basic academic instructional materials related...

textbooks play a pivotal role in language learning classrooms. the problem is, among a wide range of textbooks available, which one is more appropriate for a specific classroom and a group of learners. in order to evaluate elt textbooks, theorists and writers have offered different kinds of evaluative frameworks based on a number of principles and criteria. this study evaluates one example of s...