This study investigates the relationship between salaries and scholastic aptitude for fulltime public high school humanities and mathematics/sciences teachers. For identification, we rely on variation in salaries between adjacent school districts within the same state. The results indicate that teacher aptitude is positively correlated with teacher salaries with an elasticity point estimate of ...

Residual signs characteristic of a specific language disability, such as vocabulary deficits, trouble differentiating between literal and figurative words, difficulty paraphrasing a reading selection, and problems with abstract reasoning make it arduous for dyslexic adolescents to demonstrate their maximum potential on the verbal section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test. This paper illustrates w...

Student loans, even income-contingent ones, are not optimal. Potential university students with the appropriate characteristics should be offered a scholarship, dependent on both need and merit. The award of the scholarship should be conditional on the choice of university degree, but students with a natural aptitude for studies that do not hold the prospect of a well paid job should not be pus...

The present study investigated the relationship between Iranian EFL learners' beliefs about language learning and language learning strategy use. A sample of 104 B.A and M.A Iranian EFL learners majoring in English participated in this study. Three instruments, the Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency (MTELP), Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI), and the Strategy Inventor...

The purpose of this paper is to review several studies on the effects language aptitude recast-driven acquisition L2 morphosyntax. Recasts are one most commonly used forms corrective feedback in second (L2) classrooms. It clear from research that there a variety internal and external factors affect ability learners benefit recasting. Among those factors, working memory analytic ability, as two ...

introduction. in the current screening system, new admissions are based on general intelligence as measured by universities entrance examination. considering the fact that an important function of medical graduates is to educate the patients how to restore and take care of their health, communicative competence and skills would be, at least, as important as general intelligence. to show that la...