there is a growing interest among the higher education principals and policy makers to improve teacher evaluation methods and more important than that to use the evaluation data. a number of research studies implied the ineffective instruction of esp courses in iran (atai, 2002; eslami, 2005; hayati, 2008; ahmadi, 2008; sherkatolabbasi & mahdavi, 2012; boniadi, ghojazadeh & rahmatvand, ...

the present study aimed to explore (a) if there is any relationship between efl teachers’ self-regulatory and their resiliency, (b) if there is any relationship between efl teachers’ self-regulatory and their genders, and (c) if there is any relationship between efl teachers’ self-regulatory and years of teaching experience. through a convenience method of sampling, the first group of participa...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate mental health status in physical education teachers (pet) and non-physical education teachers (npet) based on demographic characteristics. 403 teachers consisting of 105 pets and 298 npets from west azerbaijan province were selected by multiphase cluster sampling method and completed mental health inventory (mhi). the results of the study reve...

abstract the present study aimed at investigating the relationship between three main characteristics of teachers; namely, perfectionism, leadership and empowerment, amongst iranian english and math teachers. to do so, two groups of teachers were selected to participate in this study. one consisted of 177 math teachers and the other comprised 200 english teachers. all were teaching in khorasan ...

Results: The response rate was 89% (n=1140). One thousand and sixty four teachers (93.3%) responded to the knowledge part of the questionnaire. The study showed that the school teachers in Bahrain are deficient in diabetic knowledge. The mean knowledge score was 5.34. Married teachers, primary school teachers and female teachers had better knowledge than other teachers. Also, knowledge was rela...

different factors determine language teachers’ degree of success in their teaching practices. among these factors, teachers’ own learning experience can play a pivotal role since it affects teachers’ attitudes toward aspects of the knowledge they are to teach. educators and researchers may have paid less attention to an indispensable component of teachers’ learning experience: learning strategi...

UNLABELLED This study aims to investigate how teachers' motivation to teach is related to different teaching styles. A hundred and seventy six physical education teachers from five European countries participated in the study. Teachers' motivation was measured using an instrument developed by Roth et al., 2007 based on the Self-Determination Theory (Deci and Ryan, 1985) which was tested for sui...

this study reports a mixed methods design investigation into language teachers’ conception of research. the study drew on various sources of data, including teachers’ responses to questionnaires items, qualitative comments in follow-up interviews, and contributions to e-mail inquiries. results showed that the teachers’ understanding of research is mainly associated with a standard view of resea...

the main purpose of this research was to study the relationship between organizational structure and burnout among high school teachers. research method was descriptive correlational. to collect data, two questionnaires were used: organizational structure with reliability coefficient of 93 % and job burnout with reliability coefficient of 95 %. the population consisted of all high school teache...

PURPOSE Teachers' perspectives on eye health can be limited, particularly in developing countries. The aim of this study was to assess teachers' knowledge and practices associated with eye health of primary students in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey of primary school teachers. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 443 participants from 34 private...