THE BUYERS AND SELLERS OF KNOWLEDGE: CHANGING IDENTITIES OF ACADEMIC LEARNING CENTRES IN THE AGE OF GLOBALISATION Roslyn Appleby and Alex Barthel University of Technology, Sydney Over the last decade an increase in demand for access to tertiary qualifications from Australian universities has led to a questioning of language proficiency levels necessary to successfully undertake tertiary studies...

Inclusive education is a government program in seeking an equal system without any discrimination or distinction between normal students and with special needs the same class so that they are able to obtain decent equivalent obtained by other general. has learning tools order be carry out process intensively accordance objectives of inclusive education. One them use assessment individual group ...

The academic achievement of the deaf is related to the difficulty in communication, not to the cognitive abilities. Without communication, their needs are generally misinterpreted and ignored. Accumulated years of misunderstanding will impair their academic as well as social success. Since the hearing world uses spoken language to communicate, the deaf are commonly isolated because they can use...

This paper describes an innovative approach about sharing insights from user studies with designers. The experiences of real people concerning real product use situations are of great value for designers especially during the earlier phases of the design process. Such information needs be practically useful during idea generation. We believe that this can be realised if the tool supports commun...

purpose: this research aimed to survey the professional and non-professional information needs of the faculty members of ferdowsi university of mashhad. methodology: out of 664 faculty members in ferdowsi university of mashhad in the academic year of 2010-2011, 242 faculty members were selected by using stratified random sampling method. the data were collected by a researcher made questionnair...

Testing holds an important place in the Iranian test-oriented context where the entrance examinations have serious educational and occupational outcomes. This study aimed to explore the potential washback effects of the General English Language Test of the Ph.D. (GELTP) as part of the Ph.D. University Entrance Examination (PUEE) on the humanities and science students’ perceptions and practices....

There is evidence that poor readers are at increased risk for various types of low self-concept-particularly academic self-concept. However, this evidence ignores the heterogeneous nature of poor readers, and hence the likelihood that not all poor readers have low self-concept. The aim of this study was to better understand which types of poor readers have low self-concept. We tested 77 childre...