محمد نوروزی

Dynamic assessment (DA) is an effective strategy to combine teaching and testing and it is even more enjoyable through digital devices such as computer and moblie devices. The purpose of the current study was to investigate whether the effect of interventionist dynamic assessment through WhatsApp, Bigbluebutton, and face to face classes had significant impacts on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ learning of grammar. The participants of this quasi-experimental study were seventy-five male intermediate EFL learners studying English in one of the English language institutes in central Iran. Three intact pre-intermediate level classes were chosen based on non-random convenience sampling and assigned to the three groups of WhatsApp, Bigbluebutton, and traditional group. The instruments that were used in this study were the Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) and a multiple-choice grammar test. Over the course of six sessions, all three groups received interventionist DA strategies in teaching countable and uncountable nouns and determiners. The results of statistical data analysis showed that all three groups had significantly progressed over the study since there was significant difference between the pretest and posttest scores of each group. However, no statistically significant differences were found among the three groups’ means on the posttest of grammar. The findings have implications for language teachers and researchers of second language acquision.

The occurrence of unexpected phenomena in recent decades in financial markets around the world,led to the development of theories,beyond the defined principles and criteria of classic finance.These theories are based on financial psychology and they are explaining the role of psychology in financial sciences as an influential factor and became irreplaceable in financial markets and investor decisions.One of the important theories in this field is the bounded-rationality-theory,which can explain the behavior of decision-makers about financial and economical issues based on defined theoretical frameworks and assumptions.This study developed the stock pricing model by comparing the predicted stock price based on the bounded-rationality-theory and the real stock price through collecting the data of 122 companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during the period 2011to 2019.The results of this study show the effectiveness of the bounded-rationality-theory based on the separation of stock return components and measuring the irrationality coefficient and emotional reactions of investors' decisions in stock prices.Accordingly,the limitations of investors 'ability to process information seem to affect the level of use of reasoning and rationality in decision-making and the effect of bounded-rationality through the irrationality and limited attention on stock pricing.Therefore,it is expected that knowledge about the process of bounded-rationality based on the rational-bounded of investors and the behavioral biases resulting from the irrational part of their thinking,will provide a good explanation for the process of changes in financial markets.This can provide both profit opportunities and costs in investment management so that it can be used in modeling,analysis and investment strategies.