this study aimed to investigate the program of translation studies, offered in iranian universities at the level of master, in terms of its curriculum through a needs analysis model offered by altschuld and witkin (1995). to do so, after a review of the related literature and conducting a documentary analysis, the researchers chose to look at the issue from different perspectives. current instr...

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Over the last 25 years the communicative task has emerged as a significant building block in the development of language curricula and also as an element for motivating process-oriented second language acquisition research. This paper reviews the influence of the communicative task on curriculum development and summarizes the research base for task-based language teaching. In the final part of ...

Science graduates require critical thinking skills to deal with the complex problems they will face in their 21st century workplaces. Inquiry-based curricula can provide students with the opportunities to develop such critical thinking skills; however, evidence suggests that an inappropriate level of autonomy provided to underprepared students may not only be daunting to students but also detri...

speaking of curriculum, very often we think of some exact, preplanned curricula determined for schools in advance. however in the new approach called emergent curriculum, all the beneficiaries including students, teachers, parents , society and all of whom are considered protagonists play some role in curriculum decision making and formation of learning. in emergent curriculum inspired by reggi...

the main purpose of this research is design a competency model for curriculum planners. analysis - inductively method with of the curriculum planner’s expert’s viewpoint was used. to determine the competency model for curriculum planner’s 5-stage methodology byham & moyer was used. in the first phase was reviewed subject literature and academic resources. curriculum experts were interviewed in ...

The success of interdisciplinary research teams depends largely upon skills related to team performance. We evaluated student and team performance for undergraduate biology and mathematics students who participated in summer research projects conducted in off-campus laboratories. The student teams were composed of a student with a mathematics background and an experimentally oriented biology st...

BACKGROUND Fieldwork education is a core part of all occupational therapy curriculums around the world to enable the students meet minimum competencies required for their professional life. Student experience is a valuable source to explore the nature of fieldwork training and plan more efficient curriculums in the future. This study aimed to explore the students' experiences in the first field...