Browsing Masters Theses by Subject "Evaluation"
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Assessing Translation Quality of Polemical Texts
(2015-05)How to assess the quality of the translation and what criteria to be used for evaluating it, has always been a problematic issue in translation studies. Nevertheless, there is nowadays an unprecedented agreement on the ... -
Assessment of Usability of Web-Based Applications' User Interfaces
(2017-07)System intelligence can be expressed in terms of how much it helps to make a desired task easy for human beings. The concept can be extended to user interface of computer software which is the cornerstone of human- machine ... -
Cultural Schema and Reading Comprehension: A Means to an End
(2006-08)Studies on good readers have identified a number of reading comprehension strategies to be highly useful. These strategies range from the simple to the complex. A strategy that has been recommended by cognitive scientists ... -
Development of Evaluation Model for Government Services Performance Using Analytic Hierarchy Process
(2018-04)Performance Management is one of the main concerns for many organizations in the public and the private sectors. Although the definition of performance could be complicated when it comes to the public sector, different ... -
Oral ESL Test Anxiety with Emirati Secondary School Students
(2011-06)In the UAE and globally, high-stakes testing is prevalent in second language learning. One important and integral part of high-stakes English language tests is the oral proficiency interview, which can be a pre-requisite ... -
The Process Approach and UAE High School Students' Attitudes Towards Writing
(2006-08)Many students have negative attitudes towards writing and they feel frustrated because they do not know what to do to improve it. One of the main reasons behind this attitude is the adoption of the product approach that ... -
Teacher Written Feedback and Students' Writing: Focus and Nature
(2010-12)Over the last twenty years, the focus on the teaching of writing has shifted from product to process. Students' writings today undergo a series of drafting stages which teachers correct and comment on, and students need ... -
Washback Effect of the CEPA English Test on Teaching in an Educational Zone in the UAE
(2010-08)Studies conducted to investigate the washback effect of standardized tests have found that the influence which a test might have on teaching can be positive or negative (see Cheng, 2005; Shohamy, 2001; and Wall & Alderson, ...