The use of peer assessment (PA) as an alternative form of evaluation method is reported to be helpful in learning and is increasingly being adopted in higher education settings. Through collecting data from 280 university students in Taiwan, a 20-item instrument was developed to investigate university students’ attitudes toward and perceptions of PA and online PA. Four subscales, Positive Attit...

the idea is growing among educators that thinking skill needs to be given a direct attention. on one hand, critical thinking is supposed to broaden students’ thinking in all regards (schafersman, 1991); and on the other hand learners’ attitudes towards the second language can affect both their performance in the class and their final accomplishment. to this end, the present study started with t...

The purpose of the present study was to identify any significant relationship between critical thinking ability, L2 vocabulary knowledge, and L2 vocabulary learning strategies of Iranian EFL learners. To this aim, the productive vocabulary levels test was administered to measure the learner’s L2 vocabulary knowledge and observe homogeneity in terms of vocabulary knowledge. At the second stage, ...

Over the last two years, since beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Serbia worked modality distance learning – instructions and students` assignments were performed by distance, while colloquia exams realized traditional conditions. Regardless modality, HEIs have to ensure high-quality education every single course. In this sense, feedback from students is ver...

For science learning to be successful, students must develop attitudes toward support future engagement with challenging social issues related to science. This is especially important for increasing participation of students from underrepresented populations. This study investigated how participation in inquiry-based biology laboratory classes affected students' attitudes toward science, focusi...

background and purpose: communication skills play an important role in diagnosis, effective treatment, and patient satisfaction. we aimed to determine the attitudes of medical students towards learning communication skills in order to design related educational programs for them. methods: this was a cross-sectional study with a sample of 200 medical students of yazd that were selected using cla...