Assessment is one of the most essential parts of any instructive learning process which aims to evaluate a learner’s knowledge about learning concepts. In this work, a new method for learner assessment based on learner annotations is presented. The proposed method exploits the M-BLEU algorithm to find the most similar reference annotations and then the learner annotation will be processed furth...

Well-rounded instruction in occupational medicine as part of family medicine residency training is feasible through a program that balances a longitudinal curriculum of monthly occupational and environmental medicine (OEM) lectures, community-based OEM patient care, and worksite assessment. Such training would help equip family medicine residents to integrate occupational medicine into their pr...

Objectives: Self-assessment, as one type of alternative assessment, with the increased attention to learner-centered curricula, needs analysis, and learner autonomy has gained popularity in recent years. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of self-assessment on Javanroodian Foreign Language (Kordestan) Learners’ Oral Performance ability. Methods: The assessment program ...

Learner autonomy (LA) has always been a controversial issue among applied linguists. Several studies have been carried out to investigate the teachers' and learners' perceptions of learner autonomy as well as the feasibility of learner autonomy. Despite the importance of learner autonomy and the existence of several related studies, the challenges in promoting LA in Iranian institutes to the re...

A major drawback of current e-learning systems is that they are too disconnected from learner’s learning preferences and learning goals. There has been a high demanding for learner centric e-learning systems. Research on personalized e-learning is emerging in recent years. However, most of the current research is focused on user profile modeling, and learning styles research, etc. In this paper...

Language learning strategies, “the techniques or devices which a learner may use to acquire knowledge” (Rubin, 1975, p. 43) or more pertinently “complex, dynamic thoughts and actions, selected and used by learners with some degree of consciousness in specific contexts” (Oxford, 2017, p. 48), have been widely researched and discussed for more than forty years since the mid-1970s. Shifting the fo...

Abstract Self-assessment and reflective thinking (RT) can arm learners to monitor evaluate their learning progress. Despite the long history of core self-assessment (CSA) RT, little is known about how they may contribute learner enjoyment (LE) immunity (LI). Therefore, current research attempted propose a model depict interplay among CSA, LE, LI. To this end, Core Self-Assessment Questionnaire ...

Abstract As the effects of self-assessment, peer assessment, and teacher assessment on EFL learners’ writing CAF speaking have not examined in Iran, this research compared their effectiveness developing Iranian students’ CAF. Moreover, attitudes students towards three types assessments. To achieve these objectives, 75 intermediate learners were selected based a convenience sampling method divid...