Student performance on national board examinations is the predominant litmus test for successful programs in health science education. Many different strategies have been used to increase passing rates among students. The objectives of this study were to investigate the influence of a voluntary eighteen-hour National Board Dental Examination Part I (NBDE Part I) preparation course on student pe...

In applied linguistics, washback, or backwash, refers to the influence of tests on teaching and learning. Though there is now a large body of research investigating the impact of tests on educational processes and outcomes, the possible effect of language tests on the psychological environment of language classrooms remains underexplored. This study examined the effect of IELTS on the classroom...

Abstract Reading strategies are seen as supportive means to help learners process and comprehend English texts effectively. The present research probed to posit a discipline-specific model of reading strategies for Iranian TEFL postgraduate students. The motive behind developing a local model of reading strategy is twofold: first, a variety of postgraduate students admitted for M.A and Ph.D. pr...

H altitude or impulse response matrix I identity matrix j dummy index M Mach number R correlation coefficient S matrix of singular values STBL left stabiliser position STBR right stabiliser position t, Δt time, time step T projected state matrix multiplied by the instrument TEFL left trailing-edge flap deflection TEFR right trailing-edge flap deflection u system input vector U matrix of past or...

The use of the Internet for course preparation is ill served by traditional, content-based search engines. This paper describes SourceFinder, a web search engine that locates text material based on linguistic characteristics, such as reading level. Combining SourceFinder with content-based searches may allow instructors more easily to identify material relevant for their courses. We present exa...