this study was conducted to investigate the impact of portfolio assessment as a process-oriented assessment mechanism on iranian efl students’ english writing and its subskills of focus, elaboration, organization, conventions, and vocabulary. out of ninety juniors majoring in english literature and translation at the university of isfahan, sixty one of them who were at the same level of writing...

Introduction: Proper educational programs should have an active and dynamic nature and be revised and modified following the received feedbacks. Clinical learning guide if integrated with interactive logbooks is considered an appropriate tool for clinical learning enhancement by providing opportunity for more interaction among student, clinical environment, and instructor. Therefore, this study...

Introduction: Students’ academic achievement has always been a concern of education authorities. One of factors in academic achievement is attention to effective components on the learning, including learning strategies. Thus, the present research was done to determine the relation between cognitive and meta-cognitive learning strategies and academic achievement in medical surgical nursing cour...

the construct of self-efficacy has received increasing attention in research over the past two decades. many studies have been carried out 1.3 significance of the study this study has pedagogical implications since improving students’ self- efficacy and autonomy is important for promoting actual performance on classroom academic tasks. in academic settings, it has been shown that self-effi...

According to literature, nursing students face high-stress experience and high cognitive load due to heavy academic content and stressful clinical environment. So, the present study aimed to study the effect of emotion induction on anxiety, emotion regulation, cognitive load and learning performance based on studies and theories of cognitive load and academic emotions in nursing students. In a...

in the area of vocabulary teaching and learning although much research has been done, only some of it has led to effective techniques of vocabulary teaching and many language learners still have problem learning vocabulary. the urge behind this study was to investigate three methods of teaching words. the first one was teaching words in context based on a traditional method of teaching that is,...

Introduction: Children with special learning disorders (Dictation) often have low self-efficacy that arises basically from academic failures and problem perception. The purpose of this study was the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy intervention on the self-efficacy of students with special learning disorders (Dictation). Method: The research method in this study was a quasi-experi...