The purpose of this paper is to determine the most important factors influencing supportive learning environment in public and private sector organizations on the one hand and to compare the levels of supportive learning environment between private and public sectors, on the other. Since, supportive learning environment is a building block of learning organization, the study, in other words, in...

the present study was performed to analyze some of the preventive vs. promoter factors of applying blended learning system in agricultural higher education as viewed from the perspective of khuzestan province's faculties of agriculture and natural resources' faculty members. statistical population of the study consisted of the members of agriculture and natural resources state college...

Recent innovations in formative assessment have turned the spotlight on the implementation of assessment for learning in the classroom. Notwithstanding a considerable wealth of research on assessment for learning in mainstream education, few research studies in the field of language teaching thus far have touched upon assessment for learning. This quantitative study investigated Iranian English...

Abstract Teacher-student interactions are crucial in understanding the role of a supportive climate instructional practices. The present study investigates perceptions 15-year-old Nordic students regarding four aspects their science class: teacher support, fairness, feedback, and class discipline. Multilevel modelling analysis is used to examine extent which perceived can explain variation stud...

As part of an NSF-funded IT Workforce grant, the authorsconducted ethnographic research to provide deep understandingof the learning environment of computer science classrooms.Categories emerging from data analysis included impersonalenvironment and guarded behavior, and the creation andmaintenance of informal hierarchy resulting in competitivebehaviors. These communicat...

The present study examined the relation between the amount of years of study and the perception of skill acquisition through indicators of students’ satisfaction with the course program. It was hypothesized that the more years students spend at the university, the higher their perception of skill acquisition and that factors related to the course program moderate this relationship. Participants...

background: team-based learning is a structured type of cooperative learning that is becoming increasingly more popular in nursing education. this study compares levels of nursing students’ perception of the psycho-social climate of the classroom between conventional lecture group and team-based learning group.   methods: in a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design 38 nursing stu...

Grounded in the theoretical framework of achievement goal theory and perfectionism theory, the purpose of this study was to examine how self-assessed perceived abilities covariance these variables among Norwegian football academy players. 140 adolescent football players participated, representing three football academies. Perceived competence was reported as equivalent to or better than others....