Manizheh Geravand; Abbas Abbaspour
Volume 8, Issue 24 , July 2012, , Pages 100-120
Abstract
This study aims to compare the competence of teacher-training graduates and contractual teachers from the perspective of guidance-school principals of Tehran city. The research method was a descriptive survey, and its tool was a questionnaire designed on the basis of Likert scales. The sample selected ...
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This study aims to compare the competence of teacher-training graduates and contractual teachers from the perspective of guidance-school principals of Tehran city. The research method was a descriptive survey, and its tool was a questionnaire designed on the basis of Likert scales. The sample selected through random sampling method was all guidance-school principals of districts 4, 8 and 13 of Tehran city. According to Morgan table, 92 out of 120 principals were finally selected to represent the main sample. The data were analyzed using the descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation and so on) and inferential statistics (independent t-test). The reliability was calculated by Cronbach's alpha coefficient as 0.80. The results suggested that there was a significant difference between the teacher-training graduates and contractual teachers. Regarding the five indicators of competence, there was also a significant difference in scientific knowledge, experience, interaction and collaboration and satisfying teaching and no significant difference in accountability between the teacher-training graduates and contractual teachers.
firuz afsharfar; abas abaspur
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This research is based on Spititzer’s (1995,1996) theory and aims to explore the relationships between related factors among psychological functions of the school organization with its psychological empowerments. 250 principals of Tehran High schools (girls and boys) were selected randomly. The ...
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This research is based on Spititzer’s (1995,1996) theory and aims to explore the relationships between related factors among psychological functions of the school organization with its psychological empowerments. 250 principals of Tehran High schools (girls and boys) were selected randomly. The measurement tool consisted of two questionnaires: the first one for measuring psychological empowerment (Spititzer, 1995), and the second for gauging psychological functions of the school. The findings of this research were obtained by utilizing structural equations analysis. The results obtained indicate that: the suggested model possesses the required fitness such that goodness of fit indicators depict relatively good fitness between the model and the observable data. The findings show that, in spite of moderator variable’s impact in providing better conditions for the model, empowerment as an independent variable has direct relationship with psychological functions. Therefore psychological empowerment has an effective role in explication of psychological functions variance. Identification of psychological functions as a construct with four different indicators (participative climate, change and innovation, teamwork and commitment) was one of the other important findings of recent research. So one can conclude that psychological functions is a multidimensional concept
