the main issues in any society are teaching and learning and main elements of this story are the teacher and the learner. there are different psychology schools in which any of them in turn, have taken many extensive researches about behavior, and facts and theories of learning have been studied from a particular perspective. rationalism asserts that the human intellect has the highest energy a...

Reflective Teaching and Its Impact on Students' Achievement in English F. Ghorbaan Dordinejaad, Ph.D. M. Rashvand Reflective teaching as a style in teaching has shown to be effective across different academic areas, in which teaching English is no exception. To demonstrate its effectiveness, a sample of 70 English teachers in Ghazvin was asked to answer two sets of questions o...

In this paper, we analyse students’ perception of their formative assessment in a Databases course. Two forms feedback are analysed: interactive questionnaires during class time and self-assessment lab practices. Qualitative data gathered with survey is used to conduct grounded theory qualitative study. Our aim understand those aspects that contribute our learning. The results obtained show pos...

Fill-in-the-blank items are commonly featured in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) systems. An item displays a sentence with a blank, and often proposes a number of choices for filling it. These choices should include one correct answer and several plausible distractors. We describe a system that, given an English corpus, automatically generates distractors to produce items for preposi...

In designing intelligent web based educational systems different student needs and preferences should be taken into consideration. Personalization of a system usually results in an increase in its effectiveness, which can be measured by the degree to which learning outcomes are achieved. However, taking into account the individual requirements of each learner and adjusting the system to their n...

in most of the education systems throughout the world, art is viewed as a subject of study with secondary importance. this is while art, understood in light of its profound impact on the development of human cultures, can perform unique educational functions that are out of the reach of other subjects. all-round education, therefore, is only obtained through an art-reach education program. art...