The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among Iranian EFL university lecturers’ professional and institutional identity, and their teaching efficacy. To this end, 100 EFL university lecturers from different branches of Islamic Azad Universities, including Kermanshah, Isfahan and Hamedan, took part in the study by completing the Professional Identity Questionnaire, the Inst...

A case study research design was employed to investigate college lecturers’ perceptions on factors affecting their participation in continuing professional development (CPD). The survey questionnaire instrument was developed by the researchers to answer the two research questions that were posed. Forty lecturers were randomly selected from the four Faculties at the BA ISAGO University College. ...

The presented two-campus transport problem (TCTP) is a pickup-anddelivery scheduling problem. It is a problem of a college with two campuses located at two different cities. Lecturers living in one city should sometimes teach at the other city campus. The problem is that of transporting N lecturers from one campus to the other, using a fleet of k vehicles, so as to minimize the time the lecture...

The purpose of this study was to reevaluate the multi-dimensional model of humor creation, which is comprised of three dimensions: humor motivation, humor cognition, and humor communication, using in vivo (natural setting) methodology. Thirty-four lecturers from colleges and universities completed a questionnaire. Additionally, 1530 students observed these lecturers and evaluated their sense of...

An Objective Structured Clinical Assessment (OSCA) method was adopted by a course team in an attempt to resolve some of the learning difficulties experienced by the baccalaureate nursing students in clinical practice. The assessment required the students to work through some simulations developed from real encounters. The performance of the students was evaluated against the checklists which we...

Career planning is essential for nurses considering a change in role, as it provides direction and enables them to use time and money efficiently. This article describes a survey of 25 universities in which each participating institution was asked to comment on the required characteristics of nurse lecturers. The results should be useful to nurses who are planning to become nurse lecturers in t...

BACKGROUND Lectures remain an important teaching method to present and structure knowledge to many students concurrently. Adequate measures are necessary to maintain the quality of the lectures. The aim of this study was to determine the impact on the lecture quality using written structured feedback and to compare the ratings of surgical lectures between students and surgical peers. METHODS ...

Abstract The role of EFL lecturers’ first language (L1) in the EFL courses has been an ongoing debate. A monolingual approach to EFL suggests that the use of the target language solely in foreign language (FL) classroom improves learning of the target language. Accordingly, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the attitude of Iranian lecturers and EFL learners towards using L1 as...