Alireza Badeleh
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of smart boards and the application of grammar translation and audio-lingual teaching methods in the process of learning, retention (memorization) of first grade English Language lessons of first grade of secondary smart schools. The population ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of smart boards and the application of grammar translation and audio-lingual teaching methods in the process of learning, retention (memorization) of first grade English Language lessons of first grade of secondary smart schools. The population consisted of all female students in the first grade high school in Tabriz, who have been studying in high schools in five districts of the city in the school year of 92-93 (N=17821out of this 10051 students were males and 7769 were females. They ware sampled with simple random sampling method and the research method is a quasi-experimental research with pretest and posttest design with control and experimental groups. For analyzing data, descriptive statistics, measures of central indexes, median indexes were used, for average and standard deviation, variance and deductive statistics were used; for analyzing equality of control and experiment groups, independent T was used; and for comparing the scores of the two groups, Two-way ANOVA was used. Results indicated that the difference in the process of learning the retention in both experimental and control groups in the use of electronic board has been clear and significant. Also the results suggest that teaching through smart board along with the audio-lingual method is efficient which is applied in learning and retention of speaking skill and this effect is stronger than the application of smart board along with the application of grammar translation method for improving the process of learning and retention in reading skills.
Javad Mesrabadi; Akbar Alilou
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One of the teaching - learning strategies that facilitates meaningful learning among students and represents the hierarchically relationships among students matters is the conceptual map. The present research is prepared on studious findings, and in this research investigated the degree of proficiency ...
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One of the teaching - learning strategies that facilitates meaningful learning among students and represents the hierarchically relationships among students matters is the conceptual map. The present research is prepared on studious findings, and in this research investigated the degree of proficiency of using the conceptual map in remembrance, comprehension and application of the concepts of the experimental sciences. For this, a Semi-empirical plan with a pretest and posttest was used. The population is the sixth grade Khoy male students in the academic year 2013-2014. Four classes selected in purposeful sample way (2 classes for experiment, 2 classes for control group), the material which presented for control group was presented with common ways and for experiment group the material was presented with the conceptual map. For measuring the effect of the use of the conceptual map on achievement tests with the accepted validity and reliability criteria were used. For data analysis, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and univariate analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used. The findings of this research in comparison to the common ways represents that the education which consists of the conceptual map had a positive effect on the students grades in comprehension and application, but it was not effective in remembrance. In sum, the use of the conceptual map had a positive result on student’s achievement in the experimental sciences.
Hanieh Mastour; Khadijeh Aliabadi; Maryam Moqaddasin
Volume 8, Issue 25 , October 2012, , Pages 90-112
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of virtual as well as real laboratory on third-grade high-school female students' learning and retention of physics and laboratory course. The design of the study was a pre-experimental study with pre–test, post–test and follow-up. 30 ...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of virtual as well as real laboratory on third-grade high-school female students' learning and retention of physics and laboratory course. The design of the study was a pre-experimental study with pre–test, post–test and follow-up. 30 third-grade high-school female students studying at the schools of Mashhad in the school year 2010-2011 were selected through convenient sampling and divided into two groups. The content validity coefficient was 0.68 while the reliability coefficient was calculated as 0.79 and 0.73 using the Cronbach's alpha and split-half, respectively. The analysis of covariance results showed that there existed no significant difference between the impact of virtual and real laboratories on the learning and retention of students. Also, the results of the analysis of variance with repeated measures showed that only significant factor was repetition.
Khojasteh Ghamin; Darioush Norouzi
Volume 8, Issue 24 , July 2012, , Pages 120-145
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The present research seeks to assess the impact of a researcher-made multimedia on the learning and retention of the Persian pre-printing skills. The participants were all the first graders of elementary schools in Teheran in the school year 2010-2011. 40 students were selected through multilevel random ...
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The present research seeks to assess the impact of a researcher-made multimedia on the learning and retention of the Persian pre-printing skills. The participants were all the first graders of elementary schools in Teheran in the school year 2010-2011. 40 students were selected through multilevel random sampling to represent the experimental group (20 subjects) and control group (20 subjects). The method of the research was semi-experimental, and the used research plan was pretest-posttest with control group. Firstly, the researcher took a pre-test from both groups using a research-made exam, and then taught pre-printing skills to the experimental group using a research-made multimedia built on multimedia designing principles. Separately, the teacher taught the same pre-printing lesson using the traditional method. Finally, both groups were taken an exam. The results indicated an increase in alphabet-tracing learning, alphabet-tracing retention, eye/hand coordination skill learning and letter-shape recognition learning in comparison with the control group. The impact of the multimedia on the learning was confirmed while the increase of eye/hand coordination retention and letter-shape recognition retention were not confirmed. This shows that the multimedia can be effective in the learning of Persian pre-printing skills course but not necessarily in its retention in the long run.
mohamadreza mahdavi; mohamadhasan amirtaimuri
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The focus of this study is ”the evaluation of the impact of applying Merrill instructional design model on learning rate and retention in high school first- grade biology lesson .statistical group comprised all of the mail first-grade high school students in mahallat .to choose the sample the multi-stage ...
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The focus of this study is ”the evaluation of the impact of applying Merrill instructional design model on learning rate and retention in high school first- grade biology lesson .statistical group comprised all of the mail first-grade high school students in mahallat .to choose the sample the multi-stage clustering ,considering class as sampling unit ,was used .the total number of students were 57 who were attending two classes with capacities of 28 students. After the experiment the researcher executed learning pre-tests(researcher-built) for the two groups based on similar conditions .the researcher applied experimental viability randomly for in of the two classes and for the control group the traditional way(current teaching)was used .After a 6-week period of the implementation of designed program ,learning test ,was implemented for both of the classes and after 21 days ,retention test(researcher-built)was held within the same condition for both of the groups .to analyze data obtained in this research descriptive statistical methods (average ,variance ,median ,maximum ,minimum) and inference statistics(T-test for two independent groups)with SPSS software was used. data analysis showed that the use of Merrill instructional design model for learning rate and retention of biology with 95% confidence is significant within groups.
Hossain Eskandari (PhD); Daryoush Noroozi (PhD)
Volume 6, Issue 16 , April 2010, , Pages 79-104
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owadays almost one seventh of people all over the world speak in “English” and numerous of the rest, learn it as a second or foreign language. Teaching and learning of this language is very important from political, social, cultural, scientific and international point of view. So, English ...
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owadays almost one seventh of people all over the world speak in “English” and numerous of the rest, learn it as a second or foreign language. Teaching and learning of this language is very important from political, social, cultural, scientific and international point of view. So, English as a subject has been embedded in curriculum of many formal educational systems. Teaching English in the formal educational system of Iran is started from guidance school and continued until pre-university. Word learning has an important role in foreign language learning process, because most of differences among languages refer to their word domain and many of them as Persian and English have very similarities in grammar domain. Learners to learn words for a long time may use many strategies that rehearsal (or rote memorization) seems to be the most prevalent of them. But, research has shown that this strategy is not so effective. Hence, researchers have examined more effective strategies such as mnemonic devices, for example keyword and mental imagery that effectiveness of them has been proved many times in different countries. The aim of this research is to examine the effectiveness of these two strategies in learning and retention of meaning of the English words in comparison to rote memorization among Guidance school pupils.
Maedeh Malek(MA); Khadije Aliabadi(PhD)
Volume 5, Issue 15 , January 2010, , Pages 66-89
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The purpose of this research was to examine the influence of Gagne's and five leveled Bybee'sinstructional design models on the learning and retention of students in web-based instruction. The research population was all BCS students of Instructional Technology from AllamehTabataba'iUniversity inthe ...
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The purpose of this research was to examine the influence of Gagne's and five leveled Bybee'sinstructional design models on the learning and retention of students in web-based instruction. The research population was all BCS students of Instructional Technology from AllamehTabataba'iUniversity inthe academic year of 1388-89 and 32 students were chosen by available sampling. After pretest, these 32 students were randomly divided into two groups. Gagne'sinstructional design model on one group and Bybeeinstructional design model on another group was performed; and then post-test was given to both groups.After three weeks learning post-test as a retention test was exactly repeated for two groups. According to the research questions, the results showed that (a) there was a significant difference between the learning of students that were instructed by Bybee'sinstructional design model and those of Gagne'sinstructional design model and the learning of students taught by Bybee'sinstructional design model was more than students trained by Gagne'sinstructional design model;(b) there was a significant difference between retention of students that were taught by Bybee'sinstructional design model and those that were instructed by Gagne'sinstructional design model and the retention of students taught by Bybee'sinstructional design modelwas more than students trained by Gagne'sinstructional design model.
