One of the main shortcomings of the Iranian educational system is its focus on training students to succeed in different testing/assessment practices. In this regard, primary emphasis is still placed on memorization rather than learning dialogue, collaboration, tolerance, and life expectation for today's globalized communities. Few voices from…

While evaluation condition (teacher, self, peer-comparison) on anagram task performance and continuing motivation (CM) among Iranian fifth graders appeared to make little difference in the case of performance, its effect on CM was significant--results were remarkably similar to those obtained with U.S. samples. (RC)