Akbar Rezaei (PhD)
Volume 6, Issue 18 , October 2010, Pages 1-20
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he purpose of the present research was to investigate the relationship between students' learning modes and styles with age and academic performance. 439 (299 female and 140 male) students of humanities and basic sciences in Tabriz Payame Noor University were randomly selected using multi-stage ...
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he purpose of the present research was to investigate the relationship between students' learning modes and styles with age and academic performance. 439 (299 female and 140 male) students of humanities and basic sciences in Tabriz Payame Noor University were randomly selected using multi-stage cluster sampling. Honey and Mumford's learning styles questionnaire and Kolb’s learning styles inventory were used to evaluate students’ learning modes and styles. The gathered data were analyzed and the results showed that: (1) among Kolb's learning styles, only abstract conceptualization has a positive and meaningful correlation with students' academic performance. (2) none of Honey and Mumford's learning styles had meaningful relation with students’ academic performance. (3) negative and meaningful correlation was observed between activist learning styles and reflector and theorist ones. (4) there is a positive and meaningful correlation between age and theorist and pragmatist learning styles and negative and meaningful correlation between it and activist learning style. (5) age has a positive and meaningful correlation with abstract conceptualization and active experimentation, as well as academic performance. (6) concrete experience has a positive and meaningful relationship with activist learning style, whereas it has negative and meaningful relation with reflector, theorist and pragmatist learning styles. These results will be discussed in more details in this paper.
Esmaeil Zaree Zavareki (PhD); Daryoush Noroozi (PhD); Ayam Ghavidel (MA)
Volume 6, Issue 18 , October 2010, Pages 30-39
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his study was done with the aim of investigating the effect of instructional cognitive and metacognitive skills on rate of using ICT by Iran ̓s central insurance staff. The research population included all male and female staff. The sample consisted of 60 colleagues who were randomly ...
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his study was done with the aim of investigating the effect of instructional cognitive and metacognitive skills on rate of using ICT by Iran ̓s central insurance staff. The research population included all male and female staff. The sample consisted of 60 colleagues who were randomly selected in three categories (cognitive, metacognitive, control group). The method was quasi experimental, with pre and post-test. The instrument used in the study was a researcher made test to evaluate the seven skills of using ICDL standards. The collected data were analyzed using covariance and one way covariance, and the result showed that there are positive relationship between instruction through cognitive skills and rate of using ICT. There was a negative relationship between rate of using ICT and metacognitive skills.
Fakhri Sadat Hossaini (MA); Syavash Taleh Pasand (PhD; Iman Bigdeli (PhD)
Volume 6, Issue 18 , October 2010, Pages 40-73
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his study has been done to find out the relationship of task value, ability/expectancy beliefs, perception of task difficulty, locus of control comparison of previous and subsequent chemistry achievement and also testing the Eccles and Wigfield’s model. To achieve this purpose, 200 female students ...
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his study has been done to find out the relationship of task value, ability/expectancy beliefs, perception of task difficulty, locus of control comparison of previous and subsequent chemistry achievement and also testing the Eccles and Wigfield’s model. To achieve this purpose, 200 female students were chosen from Tehran public high schools among several processes and accidental sampling (119 students studied empirical science and the rest, 81 students, studied mathematics).
All of them filled out the Semnan's Expectancy-value (SVEQ) and Rotter's Locus of Control questionnaire. Data were analyzed with hierarchical regression. The findings showed that task the value could predict the subsequent chemistry achievement in the first model, but the task value had no role in predicting it in the second one when it juxtapose the ability/expectancy beliefs. In the 3rd model the perception of task difficulty was added to those two predicting items which was able to predict the subsequent achievement in reverse order. In the 4th model the locus of control was added to the 3rd models which manifest a meaningful effect in prognosticating the chemistry achievement. In the 2nd-4th the task value couldn’t predict the subsequent achievement. In the 5th model the ability of model prediction increased significantly in addition to previous achievement to the rest of predicting items. In general, all findings of this study fit into the expectancy-value theory frame work and on the other hand it’s compatible and confirms the previous attempting findings.
Soghra Ebrahimi Ghavam (PhD); Seyed Ali Akbar Karimi (MA)
Volume 6, Issue 18 , October 2010, Pages 72-104
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n the research reported here in, the educator training programs in Iran, Australia, Canada and Britain were compared and contrasted. In this report, initially the developmental path of the current program in Iran is critically reviewed, the policies and initiatives taken are explained and the major problems ...
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n the research reported here in, the educator training programs in Iran, Australia, Canada and Britain were compared and contrasted. In this report, initially the developmental path of the current program in Iran is critically reviewed, the policies and initiatives taken are explained and the major problems that the educator training center is currently facing are delineated. Then, the status of educator training programs in Canada, Britain and Australia are outlined in such a way that comparing and contrasting them with the Iranian program. Finally, based on the results of the comparison applicable strategies are suggested in order to remedy the current problems in Iranian early childhood educators training programs. It is hoped that the findings are utilized by the educational planners as establishment of a good educator training program. It is hoped that the findings are utilized by the program plays a pivotal role in any reform in the educational system of the country.
Shiva Moftakhari Hajimirzaei (MA); Hassan Asadzadeh (PhD); Yousef Karimi (PhD)
Volume 6, Issue 18 , October 2010, Pages 104-130
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his study aimed to investigate the effect of training learning strategies (cognitive and metacognitive) on working memory performance of high school girl students in Tehran city. The statistical society comprised all the high school girl students in Tehran in the academic year of 1387-88. Among them, ...
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his study aimed to investigate the effect of training learning strategies (cognitive and metacognitive) on working memory performance of high school girl students in Tehran city. The statistical society comprised all the high school girl students in Tehran in the academic year of 1387-88. Among them, 175 people were selected using cluster sampling method. Then, performing working memory test (adapted from Daneman and Carpenter, 1980) and forty-four integrated questionnaire of learning strategies (Karami, 1381), 40 students who scored lower than the average in the two tests were selected. Then, 20 subjects were randomly replaced in the control group and 20 others in the experimental group. Experimental group were trained learning strategies for 10 sessions of one hour per week. After training sessions, working memory of both control and experimental groups were measured. Data obtained from pre-test and post-test, were analyzed using t test for independent groups. Findings showed that knowledge and use of cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies has a positive effect on working memory performance. These results may have some implications for effective teaching and learning which will be discussed in the present paper.
Noorali Farrokhi (PhD)
Volume 6, Issue 18 , October 2010, Pages 130-154
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his research was done to investigate the effectiveness of training cognitive and metacognitive strategies on reading comprehension of second grade Guidance school boys in district 11 Education in Tehran city. Three schools and from each, one class was selected by random sampling and were assigned into ...
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his research was done to investigate the effectiveness of training cognitive and metacognitive strategies on reading comprehension of second grade Guidance school boys in district 11 Education in Tehran city. Three schools and from each, one class was selected by random sampling and were assigned into two groups. That is, experimental and control groups.A researcher-made reading comprehension test was prepared and used for pre and post test. For two experimental groups, strategies training were applied for eight sessions in 45 to 60 minutes. The hypothesis was tested by one-way ANOVA and Tokay’s method. The results showed that there is a difference between the mean of additional scores experimental groups and control group’s mean in =./.1 and mean of additional score of metacognitive strategies group was obtained greater than cognitive strategies group that the difference was significant in = ./.5. Accordingly, it can be suggested that teachers need to introduce cognitive and metacognitive strategies during of their teaching courses.
Saeed Beheshti (PhD); Roshanak Nikooi (MA)
Volume 6, Issue 18 , October 2010, Pages 154-180
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ll approaches about the philosophy of religious education are placed in four categories: "philosophy of religious education its more general meaning, philosophy of religious education in its general meaning; philosophy of religious education in its particular meaning, and philosophy of religious ...
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ll approaches about the philosophy of religious education are placed in four categories: "philosophy of religious education its more general meaning, philosophy of religious education in its general meaning; philosophy of religious education in its particular meaning, and philosophy of religious education in its more particular meaning." In this paper which is organized on the fourth approach, philosophy of religious education from the view point of Islam was defined as "one of the Islamic philosophical sciences which explains and analyses the concepts and propositions of religious education from the viewpoint of the Quran and innocents tradition by documental-argumental method. Epistemological foundations of religious education from the Islam viewpoint are: "possibility of necessary knowledge for religious education", "three cognitive instruments of sensation, reason, and spirit refining", "guardedness of necessary knowledge for religious education", and "correspondence to reality as the final criterion of correctness of necessary knowledge education." Ontological foundations of religious education from the Islam's viewpoint are: "having origin of existence", "having goal of existence", "guardedness of existence", "true unity of existences components". Principles of religious education on the basis of mentioned above epistemological foundations are "to make the most of knowledge", "activity in knowledge", "expertise in knowledge", "combination in knowledge" ,"real selection" and "real evaluation".
Principles of religious education on the basis of mentioned above on to logical foundations are: "cognition of origin", "cognition of goal", and "believing in origin ""believing in goal," gradedness of stages, foundations, Principles, objectives, materials, and methods of religious education". And finally, objectives of religious education from the Islam's viewpoint were introduced in two parts: "arrival to divine absolute nearness", and "certainty", "virtue", "fait", and "Islam".
