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Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Education can really benefit from the many opportunities, although not always immediate and explicit, that technology makes available. Let’s consider the following example. The use of the Internet has determined, among others, the redefinition of the methods of creation and access to teaching and learning resources, of the physical spaces in which the education takes place, of the frequency and type of interaction between learners and teachers. It is a phase of the education’s lifecycle that is neither stoppable nor preventable. We could consider that as a phase of renewal that can further enhance the whole educational process. In other words, new and interesting opportunities are opening for redefinition of educational models. Although the path of “educational evolution” has already begun, there is a lot of potential yet to be explored. As it’s well known, technology offers a wide range of opportunities but, ultimat...

  Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Introduction In today’s China, most urban couples are pursuing the homeownership dream: the country’s homeownership rate has, in fact, remained stable at 90% since 2012 (Peking University Institute of Social Sciences, 2017). Between 1998, when the central government announced the end of welfare housing, and by the time of the 2005 census, China had become the largest home owning society in the world D Davis [1]. Starting from Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in 1978, private real estate has been an important engine for the country’s economic growth and a symbol of status and financial success for the general population. In this new environment of privatization and individual property rights, every Chinese household had permission to dream of home ownership and to view their homes as their own private space where they could display family and individual prestige D Davis [2]. Furthermore, homeownership was soon aligned wi...

  Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Opinion As the octopus of business is spreading its long and powerful legs all over the world, hesitations are growing around the nature and functions of human organizations. During the last decades a widespread feeling has emerged for an urgent need for essential transformation in the ways of management of today. Several seminars have been held offering a great variety of business consultants and ideas in this regard. However, with corporations thriving to be more powerful than ever, and the business, which is obviously dominating politics, why should have all these efforts be done to impose a change in fundamentals of such a prosper management? Approaching the issue from another angle, a different picture is coming to the sight. Top executives are under enormous and constant stress today. Working very long hours and not being able to maintain a personal and rather healthy relationship exhausts them gradually....

     Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Introduction Quality assessment is a very essential element in the provision of quality education. This is because assessment provides a foundation for making sound evaluative judgments about students’ learning progress and about the effectiveness of the whole education system in general [1,2]. It is a general term that includes the full range of procedures used to gain information about students’ learning and the information of value judgment concerning learning progress [3]. According to them, assessment is systematic processes that plays a significant role in effective teaching and begins with the identification of learning goals have been attained. Airasian [4] has also defined assessment as a process of collecting, interpreting and synthesizing information in decision making. From the ideas stated above, one can infer that instruction requires formative assessment of students’ progress as to b...