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Hassaskhah, Jaleh; Mahdavi Zafarghandi, Amir; Fazeli, Maryam – Educational Psychology, 2015
Language learning failure is often directly related to demotivation. The purpose of this study is to examine the process of demotivation and identify its sources within four years of an undergraduate degree programme. To this end, based on the complex dynamic systems perspective of the dynamic systems theories (DSTs), the demotivation test battery…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, College English, Majors (Students)
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Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh; Jahedizadeh, Safoura – International Journal of Instruction, 2017
Scholars in higher education deem reflective thinking as integral to the development of professional disciplinary practices. One of the major issues in studying reflective thinking pivots around its conceptualization and assessment. Over the years, researchers have used several methods and scales to measure reflective thinking. One of the most…
Descriptors: Validity, Questionnaires, Indo European Languages, Reflection
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Mojarradi, Gholamreza; Karamidehkordi, Esmail – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
This paper presents an analysis of the factors influencing the practical training quality of agricultural higher education programmes from the senior students' perspective. The study was conducted in two public universities located in the north-west of Iran using a cross-sectional survey and structured interviews with a randomised sample of 254…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Education, Undergraduate Students, College Seniors
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Mahmoodarabi, Mahsa; Khodabakhsh, Mohammad Reza – English Language Teaching, 2015
Although critical pedagogy has brought about positive changes in the field of education by shifting from traditional pedagogy to emancipatory pedagogy, not much attention has been paid to the factors affecting teachers' beliefs of critical pedagogy and only few studies have been conducted to design reliable and valid instruments to study EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Critical Thinking
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Liaghatdar, Muhammad J.; Soltani, Asghar; Abedi, Ahmad – International Education Studies, 2011
The purpose of this study is providing a scale for measuring attitudes toward science among Persian secondary school students. A total of 300 (150 girls and 150 boys) of second grade students from all disciplines including science and mathematics in secondary education, participated in the study. Research instrument was, translated Persian version…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Attitude Measures
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Khatib, Mohammad; Rezaei, Saeed – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
This study consisted of three main phases including the development of a hypothesised model of language identity in Iran, developing and validating a questionnaire based on this model and finally testing the model based on the questionnaire data. In the first phase of this research, a hypothesised model of language identity in Iran was developed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Questionnaires, Validity