Iraj E'temadfar; Esma'il Zare'i Zavaraki; Abbas Abbaspour
Volume 10, Issue 31 , April 2014, Pages 1-24
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The present research aims to study the effect of blended mentoring, as a learning and development strategy, on learning and retention of middle managers of Iran Khodro Diesel Company. This was an experimental research with pretest-posttest control groups. 40 subjects were selected from among all middle ...
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The present research aims to study the effect of blended mentoring, as a learning and development strategy, on learning and retention of middle managers of Iran Khodro Diesel Company. This was an experimental research with pretest-posttest control groups. 40 subjects were selected from among all middle managers of the company, and randomly divided into experimental and control groups each comprising of 20 people. Before the intervention, the experimental and control groups were evaluated by the pretest that was a localized version of the Mackenzie Institute Problem Solving Test. The experimental group participated in the blended mentoring program for 5 months; whereas, the control group was engaged with a conventional face-to-face course, the content of which was similar to that of the mentoring program. At the end, both groups participated in post-test, and after 2 months, the same test was applied to them to measure the extent of retention. The data was analyzed using multivariate covariance (ANCOVA). The results showed that blended mentoring had significant effect on learning and retention rate (p<0.05). The results also indicated that blended mentoring led to a better learning and retention compared to the conventional in-service training with the aim of developing the managers’ competencies which requires learning at high levels,
Ali Jalali Dizaji
Volume 10, Issue 31 , April 2014, Pages 25-60
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Background: University education is an essential for library and information science with the aim of training skilled human forces for information centers. The present research aims to study the undergraduate curriculum of the field library and information science for identification of the necessary ...
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Background: University education is an essential for library and information science with the aim of training skilled human forces for information centers. The present research aims to study the undergraduate curriculum of the field library and information science for identification of the necessary revisions to be made in regulatory and optional bachelor courses at Allameh Tabataba’i University. Method: This was a descriptive library research with a comparative study design. The data was collected from sources of ATU LIS curriculum, Iranian Undergraduate LIS program documents, Iranian LIS Association, and undergraduate LIS programs of the universities abroad. Results: The results showed that the curricula of LIS have been revised in both Iran and world to become consistent with social and technological developments and improve human forces’ skills. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, University of Tehran, Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz, and Alzahra University have all made some changes to their curricula. There was a difference between ATU and the mentioned universities in their LIS curricula from 2003 to 2010, and the centralized new LIS program at ATU was carried out in the first semester of the year 2010-2011. University of North Texas and American Catholic University have jointly presented the minimum courses with 57 credits, and Hawaii University offered the maximum courses with 126 credits; while the Iranian LIS programs offer a total of 80 credits. This difference lies in universities’ various educational policies, and their program’s flexibility is originated from their needs. The course ‘an introduction to reference and information services’ rated first among courses offered by abroad universities getting highest frequency of 11, while the courses ‘information and communications technology’, ‘teaching information technology literacy’, ‘database content evaluation’, ‘interpersonal communication skills for librarians’, ‘data security’, ‘marketing of information products and services’, ‘vocabulary design’, ‘preservation management’, ‘introduction to cognitive science’, ‘introduction to multimedia technology and resources’, and ‘introduction to archival management’ jointly ranked eighth. 41 required specialized courses, and 7 optional specialized courses, i.e. a total of 121 credits regardless of public and basic courses, were suggested. The proposed LIS program with 35 additional credits is expected to create a balance between undergraduate and graduate programs.
Hossein Zare'; Ahmad Alipour; Reza Rahimi
Volume 10, Issue 31 , April 2014, Pages 61-80
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Objective: The present study aims to compare the cognitive styles used by female and male students of the fields of computer and human sciences in Qurveh town. Method: This was a causal-comparative (ex-post facto) research. Using multi-stage cluster sampling method, 152 subjects (including 76 girls and ...
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Objective: The present study aims to compare the cognitive styles used by female and male students of the fields of computer and human sciences in Qurveh town. Method: This was a causal-comparative (ex-post facto) research. Using multi-stage cluster sampling method, 152 subjects (including 76 girls and 76 boys) were selected from among all students of technical schools as well as high schools. The subjects were asked to complete the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT), Factorial Analysis of Variance Test, and the Kolmogorov Test. The data was analyzed using the Smirnov Test. Results: The results showed that there was a significant difference in cognitive styles between students of computer and human sciences, and also between male and female students. Cognitive styles of computer students and male students were respectively more field-independent compared to human sciences students and female students. But there was no significant interaction between gender and field of study on one hand, and cognitive styles on the other hand. Conclusion: The results of this study confirmed the theories proposed by Witkin (1981) and Geschwind-Behan-Galaburda (1982).
Saeed Beheshti
Volume 10, Issue 31 , April 2014, Pages 81-107
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Transforming the philosophical foundations of education is the necessary condition of educational transformation, although not the sufficient one. Educational transformation can be seen from different viewpoints, But when we are speaking about educational transformation, proportional to native conditions ...
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Transforming the philosophical foundations of education is the necessary condition of educational transformation, although not the sufficient one. Educational transformation can be seen from different viewpoints, But when we are speaking about educational transformation, proportional to native conditions of a country, it should be grounded on the philosophical foundations arising from the same country .As a system arising from Islamic culture and possessing distinct characteristics, Philosophical system of transcendent theosophy has the potential for taking as a suitable base for Iran's educational transformation. Among other distinct philosophical doctrines of transcendent theosophy, substantial motion in general and human substantial motion in particular, has distinct and powerful educational implications for educational transformation. In this article, after systematic introduction of eleven philosophical propositions on the basis of transcendent theosophy, their educational implications has been introduced in the form of seven prescriptive principles governing educational transformation. These eleven foundations are: 1. Motion is the gradual exit from potentiality to actuality. 2. On the basis of primacy of existence and ideality of quiddity, motion and immobility are the essential accidents of existence qua existence. 3. Motion – and here, accidental motion – isn't in some existent which is actual in every respect, not in some existent which is potential in any respect, but is in the existents which are actual in some respect and potential in another respect. 4. The proximate principle or the direct cause of all motions, whether natural or compulsory or optional, is the substantial form or nature. 5. The internal nature of things should be changeable till the accidental motion will be occurred. 6. Although the proximate cause of all motions in the universe is the variable substantial nature of the bodies, their abstract cause is invariable. 7. in all substantial motions and among them in the human optional substantial motions, the substance moves from some kind to another kind gradually. 8. Every conjunctive motion existent is variable existent. 9. On the basis of the primacy of existence, the transformation of essence is possible.10. Because there is not any actual essence, there is not any invariable thing in the nature. 11. The substantial motion brings together contraries. Seven principles governing educational transformations are: 1. Educators should actualize gradually the potentials of pupils from potentiality to actuality. 2. This gradual actualization should be occurred both in the accidental characteristics of pupil and in his or her substance. 3. Educational transformation should be grounded on philosophical foundation of the human substantial motion. 4. Educational motion should be subordinate to the principle of graduation. 5 .Educational transformation should pay attention at the same time to the soul and body and their existential unity. 6. Educational transformation should relies on invariable existential principles and invariable epistemic foundations. 7. Educational transformation should relies on the substantial transformations of pupils and at the same time on the protection of the unity of human identity of every pupil. This article is an applied article and its method is analytical, derivative and identificative.
Karim Sevari; Ali Nouri
Volume 10, Issue 31 , April 2014, Pages 109-124
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The present study aims to compare students' time management skills and achievement motivation with their high and low academic performance. Using the stratified random sampling method, 175 subjects were selected from among third-grade female and male secondary school students of Abdanan city. The research ...
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The present study aims to compare students' time management skills and achievement motivation with their high and low academic performance. Using the stratified random sampling method, 175 subjects were selected from among third-grade female and male secondary school students of Abdanan city. The research data was collected using Trueman & Hartely’s time management construct (1996), Hermans' achievement motivation questionnaire (1970), and the students’ GPAs achieved in the last year. The results were indicative of a significant difference between students with high and low academic performance in their time management skill and achievement motivation.
Marzieh Shoushtari
Volume 10, Issue 31 , April 2014, Pages 125-164
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In his most significant verse work, Masnavi Manavi, Molana, the seventh century glamorous star in Persian literature arena, discussed most outstanding notions in mysticism, religion and morality with respect to creativity approach. In so doing, he has made extensive use of Quran verses and Hadis. He ...
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In his most significant verse work, Masnavi Manavi, Molana, the seventh century glamorous star in Persian literature arena, discussed most outstanding notions in mysticism, religion and morality with respect to creativity approach. In so doing, he has made extensive use of Quran verses and Hadis. He is so skilful in utilizing tales and anecdotes that we can barely find another figure robbing shoulders to him in this respect. The diversity of Islamic allusions in his works has its roots in his wide scope of knowledge in Quran, Interpretation, Hadis and also his robust imagination. In this article, it is argued that the close study of Noha's allusions in Molana's work shows that he has used this Quranic allusion to draw a mystical conclusion or sometimes to reiterate a certain mystical notion in a creative way. Therefore he does not simply intend to retell a story but he fetched a famous story from the deepest darkest corners of his audiences' minds and then he provides a mystical and moral interpretation of that and by doing so, he elaborates on certain moral and mystical notion in such a way that the reader who reads Masnavi could be considered as an individual who has gone through a thorough course of Quran interpretation and the stories of prophets.
Gholamreza Shams Mourkani; Mansoureh Mashayekhi; Sa'id Soleymani
Volume 10, Issue 31 , April 2014, Pages 165-189
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The present research aims to study the effect of Organizational Intelligence (OI) on Organizational Performance (OP) of high school principals in 19 districts of Tehran. Using cluster sampling method, 223 subjects were selected from among all high school principals of Tehran. In terms of data collection, ...
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The present research aims to study the effect of Organizational Intelligence (OI) on Organizational Performance (OP) of high school principals in 19 districts of Tehran. Using cluster sampling method, 223 subjects were selected from among all high school principals of Tehran. In terms of data collection, the study was a descriptive (non-experimental) one. The data was gathered through a survey instrument incorporating the Karl Albrecht's OI Scale and a researcher-made OP scale. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, including One-Sample T Test, Simple Linear Regression, and Stepwise Regression. The results showed that OI and OP of high school principals in 19 districts of Tehran were at relatively desirable levels. Moreover, OI proved to be a good predictor of OP, since it explained 87.4% of the variance change in the OP. Also, all dimensions of OI, except knowledge deployment, had multiple correlations with OP.
Yousof Mahdavinasab; Khadijeh Ali'abadi
Volume 10, Issue 31 , April 2014, Pages 191-209
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The present research aims to study the effect of using weblog on cooperative learning. The participants included 37 students of Allameh Tabataba’i University studying the second semester of educational management in the year 2010-2011 who had passed the course ‘educational technology’. ...
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The present research aims to study the effect of using weblog on cooperative learning. The participants included 37 students of Allameh Tabataba’i University studying the second semester of educational management in the year 2010-2011 who had passed the course ‘educational technology’. This was a single case study, and the research instrument was the Cooperative Learning Implementation Questionnaire. The data was analyzed using one-sample t-test. The results showed that using weblogs as cooperative learning instruments significantly affected the rate of cooperative learning and all its components (including positive interdependence, individual accountability, group processing, social skills, and interactions). The present study makes some suggestions on how to use a weblog with the aim of cooperative learning.
Mohammad Motaghed Larijani
Volume 10, Issue 31 , April 2014, Pages 211-222
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This study is aimed at investigating the role of family in academic achievement of the junior high school student in Tehran city. The analysis is of post-event nature. To this end, from among all junior high school students studying in Tehran in the academic year 2007-2008, 740 boys and girls were selected ...
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This study is aimed at investigating the role of family in academic achievement of the junior high school student in Tehran city. The analysis is of post-event nature. To this end, from among all junior high school students studying in Tehran in the academic year 2007-2008, 740 boys and girls were selected using the multistage cluster sampling method. Then, the demographic information questionnaire and family assessment device (FAD) were administered for the purpose of examining performance of the sample group families, and the indices provided through administration of the questionnaires were analyzed and compared in terms of the students’ academic achievement considered based on their averages by means of a t-test and one-way ANOVA and SPSS application. The findings of data analysis suggest that the academic status of the students experiencing inefficient family atmosphere was significantly worsened. Furthermore, the students from the families experiencing weak economic conditions had more academic achievement vis-à-vis those coming from the families with high economic status. There was no significant relation between the students’ academic achievement and mothers’ educational background, and female students’ academic conditions were better than the male students’. The research results generally indicate that there is a significant relation between weak family performance and reduced academic achievement of the junior high school students.
