روانشناسی یادگیری
Seyed Abbas Razavi; Fereshteh Khademinia; Seyed Mansour Marashi,
Abstract
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the degree of attention of the second stage elementary school's textbooks from the viewpoint of stimulating students' curiosity. The research method is descriptive in general and a quantitative content analysis in specially. The population consists of ...
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The purpose of the present study is to investigate the degree of attention of the second stage elementary school's textbooks from the viewpoint of stimulating students' curiosity. The research method is descriptive in general and a quantitative content analysis in specially. The population consists of all textbooks of the grades 4,5 and 6 which includes 9 volumes of books. Data gathered using a researcher-made scale. To ensure the validity of the researcher-made scale, it was reviewed by 11 experts in the field of educational sciences and educational psychology. The validity of the checklist was calculated and confirmed using the CVI index (Waltz and Bausell). To ensure the scale reliability, the composite reliability coefficient was calculated (0.89) and showed that the tool has high reliability. The unit of analysis was theme and descriptive statistics such as frequency and percentage as well as tables and graphs were used for data analysis. The findings of the research indicated that the content of the second stage elementary school's textbooks did not pay equal and balanced attention to the components of curiosity. More attention has been paid to the components of "independent activity" and "questioning" ; while the components of "surprising" and "freshness" were paid less attention. Another finding of this research showed that in sixth grade textbooks more attention is paid to students' curiosity than in fourth and fifth grades.
abdorahman jarihi; hashem fardanesh; masoud geramipour
Volume 11, Issue 35 , April 2015, , Pages 181-196
Abstract
Curiosity is emphasized by psychologist and researchers of motivation and learning as an important factor. By taking curiosity in pupils, their willing to learning can be motivated. When pupils absorb leaning by new thought or position, and they try to research more and more. Although there are not external ...
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Curiosity is emphasized by psychologist and researchers of motivation and learning as an important factor. By taking curiosity in pupils, their willing to learning can be motivated. When pupils absorb leaning by new thought or position, and they try to research more and more. Although there are not external rewards, we can say that they are really motivated. The purpose of this study was to examine the educational plan effects of curiosity booster on male and female pupils’ learning in elementary grade. Two male and female classes in the 5th grade selected and every class divided as experiment and control groups. In experiment group, teachers educate curriculum plan by curiosity booster, and in control group they educated by popular method before educating them, they fill out curiosity questionnaire. The results showed educational planning effectiveness based on curiosity. Also, they showed that there is difference between male and female pupils, marks
