Hossein Zare; Azam Farmani
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The aim of the present study was to offer a model about the role of patience components in predicting learning strategies with the mediating role of cognitive flexibility. The statistical population of the present study was all of university students studying at Payame Noor University, Kermanshah Branch ...
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The aim of the present study was to offer a model about the role of patience components in predicting learning strategies with the mediating role of cognitive flexibility. The statistical population of the present study was all of university students studying at Payame Noor University, Kermanshah Branch in academic year 2014- 2015. Two hundred and seventy university students were recruited among them via cluster sampling method. The participants answered the Patience Scale (Khormaie, Farmani and Soltani, 2015), Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (Dennis and VanderWal, 2010) and Cognitive/ Metacognitive Learning Strategies (Elliot et al, 1999). The findings showed that the presented model had good fitness. Moreover, the findings were indicative of direct and indirect effects of patience components on learning strategies. The components of Tolerance and Persistence negatively and significantly predicted Disorganization with a mediating role of Controllability. The patience components of Transcendence and Contentment negatively and significantly predicted Disorganization and positively and significantly predicted the learning strategy of Persistence and Effort with the mediating role of Alternatives. According to the results of this study, it is recommended that specialists in the field of learning and psychologists apply educational strategies of patience in order to help students use suitable learning strategies
Reza Mohammad Beygi; Alireza Faghihi; Faezeh Nateghi
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Nowadays, curriculum is considered as the heart of educational systems. Curriculum at primary school is an opportunity for children’s personality development in different education dimensions. Sex education is the important dimension of education. The present study aimed at designing an optimal ...
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Nowadays, curriculum is considered as the heart of educational systems. Curriculum at primary school is an opportunity for children’s personality development in different education dimensions. Sex education is the important dimension of education. The present study aimed at designing an optimal model for sex education curriculum in primary school. In this research, qualitative phenomenology research method has been used in 1395. The statistical population of the study, including professors and faculty members of educational sciences and psychology department of University of Tehran, Allameh Tabataba'i University and Bu-Ali Sina University of Hamedan, were selected by sex education experts in Hamedan province. Targeted sampling was used for sampling. So, interviews were conducted with 17 people, and the work progressed to theoretical saturation. The tool used is a semi-structured interview with experts. For analyzing qualitative data, interpretive analysis method was used. The findings indicated that the themes of the sexual education curriculum rely on three main structures (cognitive, attitudinal, and skillful). In the field of educational content, attention should be paid to the values and philosophy of sexual education, attention to value-based resources (Quran, tradition, intellect, nature), attention to the principles governing education, attention to sources of content development, sexual education curriculum. In the educational section, the principle of difference in religious law and duties, teaching methods, and in the educational evaluation section, the use of the features of other elements of sexual education curriculum, the use of two basic criteria of the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet were identified. Finally, it was concluded that the curriculum designed to pay attention to various aspects of the curriculum, including purpose, content, method and evaluation. The basics of the curriculum, including its psychological, social and philosophical foundations, are based on the philosophy of the community. In fact, the present plan reflects the cultural and social values of society.
Hossein Moradi Mokhles; Esmaeil Zaraii Zvaraki; Hassan Rashidi
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This study aimed at comparing the effectiveness of computer-based and computer-assisted instruction on the interaction of the elements of Teaching-Learning process in the second grade of the first secondary school science class in Asadabad. The study is part of the quasi-experimental projects that uses ...
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This study aimed at comparing the effectiveness of computer-based and computer-assisted instruction on the interaction of the elements of Teaching-Learning process in the second grade of the first secondary school science class in Asadabad. The study is part of the quasi-experimental projects that uses pre-test and post-test experimental groups 1 and 2. The statistical population of the study included all the male students in second grade of high school in the school year 2013-14 in Asadabad- Hamedan, with the volume of 852 students. Multi-stage cluster sampling was used to select the sample. The sample size was 100 students that were placed in pre-test and post- test groups 1 and 2. The first group studied the instructional CD with teacher guidance and the second group studied the instructional CD without teacher guidance. Both groups received their instruction in the network environment with the NSS software support. The research instrument included students’ interaction levels based on six interaction elements with 60 questions in Likert scale (very high, high, medium, low, very low). The multivariate analysis of covariance was used to test the hypotheses. The results suggest that in Teaching-Learning elements’ interaction that include six dimensions, there is no significant difference between computer-based and computer-assisted instruction in five dimensions except in content-content dimension in significance level %5. The findings show that computer-assisted instruction, the training and simulation activities with the guidance provided by the network and teacher is more effective compared to computer-based instruction.
Mahtab Pouratashi; asghar zamani
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The aim of this study was to assess thinking styles and goal orientation of students and their relationship with academic performance. This article is descriptive-correlational research and data gathered using questionnaire. Statistical population of the study comprised students studying at Agricultural ...
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The aim of this study was to assess thinking styles and goal orientation of students and their relationship with academic performance. This article is descriptive-correlational research and data gathered using questionnaire. Statistical population of the study comprised students studying at Agricultural Colleges of Universities of Tehran, Yasoohj, Ilam, Shahid Bahonar Kerman, and Razi Kermanshah, which a sample of 247 students was randomly selected. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, conducting SPSS. Thinking styles grouped in five dimensions including function, form, level, scope, and leaning and goal orientation in two dimensions. The findings revealed that there were differences between male and female students on some aspects of thinking styles and goal orientations. The findings revealed that among thinking styles, global and executive and among goal orientation, performance-oriented had the most positive effects on academic performance.
Noorali Farrokhi
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The purpose of the study was to predict academic procrastination based on perfectionism and cognitive learning strategies in students. The design of the present research was a cross-sectional one with a descriptive correlational-prediction approach. In this study, 210 students of the Faculty of Psychology ...
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The purpose of the study was to predict academic procrastination based on perfectionism and cognitive learning strategies in students. The design of the present research was a cross-sectional one with a descriptive correlational-prediction approach. In this study, 210 students of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of Allameh Tabataba'i University completed the Solomon Rath Blum Educational Inventory (1984), perfectionism and cognitive strategies of Mousavian (2004) in the academic year 2016-17. To test the hypothesis of Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression were used. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between perfectionism and academic procrastination, between perfectionism and cognitive strategies and its components with direct perfectionism. There is a significant negative relationship between perfectionism and negative perfectionism. There is a negative and significant relationship between cognitive strategies and its components with academic proclivity. Findings indicate that with the help of perfectionism and cognitive strategies, it is possible to predict academic proclivity of students.
Shahram Vahedi; Fatemah Frajian; Javad Hatami
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The present study aimed at examining motivational profiles of Tabriz highschool students and testing whether the profile groups differed on academic achievement. Therefore, using a multistage cluster method, 781 subjects were selected, from which, 691 people were entered the analysis. They were assessed ...
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The present study aimed at examining motivational profiles of Tabriz highschool students and testing whether the profile groups differed on academic achievement. Therefore, using a multistage cluster method, 781 subjects were selected, from which, 691 people were entered the analysis. They were assessed through the academic motivation scale questionnaire. Hierarchical cluster analysis method, ANOVA, and MANOVA were used to determine the optimal cluster structure of students. The results revealed that 4 profiles: a good quality motivation group (i.e., high autonomous, low controlled); a poor quality motivation group (i.e., low autonomous, high controlled); a low quantity motivation group (i.e., low autonomous, low controlled); and a high quantity motivation group (i.e., high autonomous, high controlled. At the end of the semester, the students in good quality motivation group showed better performance.
hojjat dehganzadeh; Hossein dehghanzadeh
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The aims of this study are to evaluate the educational software of the third-grade empirical science based on intrinsic motivation components. To achieve this goal, content analysis method was used. Malone’s intrinsic motivation questionnaire having four components including challenges, curiosity, ...
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The aims of this study are to evaluate the educational software of the third-grade empirical science based on intrinsic motivation components. To achieve this goal, content analysis method was used. Malone’s intrinsic motivation questionnaire having four components including challenges, curiosity, control, and fantasy is used for obtaining information and data. The population of this study is all third-grade empirical science educational software in market in academic year 1394-95 which was selected for the sample. The results shows that Misha va Koosha, Rahpouyane Danesh, and Dabir Dorsa software is relatively desirable in terms of intrinsic motivation (curiosity), and the other three components are undesirable whereas educational software of Lohe Danesh, Kharazmi group, Nokteh be Nokteh in all 4 components are undesirable. In general, none of the companies producing educational software to intrinsic motivation has not been at the desired level. Due to the role of motivation, especially intrinsic motivation for learning, and also the production of educational multimedia in different subject and grades are increasing day by day, suggested that producer institutes of these multimedia software to pay more attention in content analysis of available software and intrinsic motivation components in the designing of the new software.
Majid Mahmoodi Mozafar
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This study examines the effectiveness of Tusi’s moral education approach on teachers' attitudes in the moral education process of elementary school students. The research method was quasi-experimental in which pretest-posttest design was used for experimental and control groups. The statistical ...
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This study examines the effectiveness of Tusi’s moral education approach on teachers' attitudes in the moral education process of elementary school students. The research method was quasi-experimental in which pretest-posttest design was used for experimental and control groups. The statistical population included elementary school teachers of Region 2 of Tehran. Sample group including 30 people in the experimental group and 30 people in the control group were selected randomly from subsidiary schools in Region 2 of Tehran. The measuring instrument was attitude measuring questionnaire developed by researchers inclusive of 30 questions with 5-point Likert scale which its reliability was 84.0 based on the retest score and was 85.0 based on Cronbach's alpha. The teachers attended in 8 4-hour training sessions in the form of a workshop. While understanding the attitude, they learned designing lesson plans skills based on the moral education of Tousi. The results showed that cognition and approaches design skills influence on change the human attitude in the process of moral education.
Mohammad Mahdi Babaei; Adel Zahed Babolan; Mahdi Moeainikia; Ali Khaleghkhah
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The purpose of present study was to identify the relationship betweenlearning strategies and exam anxiety withmathematics learning among high schools students of Amol.The research method was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population was 2950 people of Amol high schools' students in the ...
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The purpose of present study was to identify the relationship betweenlearning strategies and exam anxiety withmathematics learning among high schools students of Amol.The research method was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population was 2950 people of Amol high schools' students in the second and third grades of the field of Mathematics and Physics, from which 339 students were selected as sample according to Cochran formula and multi-stage cluster sampling. However, 333 questionnaires of them were analyzable. The research instrument was the part of Pintrich et al questionnaire containing learning strategies and exam anxiety dimension. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation formula, regression multivariate and path analysis. Pearson correlation analysis revealed that there is a statistically significant relationship between the learning strategies subscales and mathematics learning. A regression analysis revealed that share of organization, self- regulation, critical thinking, elaboration and rehearsal in predicting mathematics learning students meaningful, but share of exam anxiety was not significant in predicting mathematics Learning. The results of path analysis showed that rehearsal, organization, elaboration and critical thinking through variable of self- regulation have an indirect effect on mathematics learning students, but self- regulation has a direct effect on mathematics learning students.
