Nazila Khatib Zanjani; Mehran Farajollahi
Volume 8, Issue 25 , October 2012, Pages 2-20
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The aim of this study is to shed light on the factors promoting the religious concepts and beliefs among the guidance- and high-school students in district 2 of Tehran. The study was a descriptive survey, and the statistical population consisted of all male and female guidance- and high-school students ...
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The aim of this study is to shed light on the factors promoting the religious concepts and beliefs among the guidance- and high-school students in district 2 of Tehran. The study was a descriptive survey, and the statistical population consisted of all male and female guidance- and high-school students of district 2 of Tehran in the school year 2006-2007. Sample size was based on Morgan table and covered 384 students selected through simple random sampling. The data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity and reliability was confirmed by experts and Cronbach's alpha (0.85), respectively. The collected data was analyzed by the SPSS v.11.5 software.
The results showed that (1) there was a significant relationship between parents' character and the growth of religious beliefs of high-school students, (2) there was a significant relationship between cultural facilities of family with the growth of religious beliefs of students, (3) there was a significant relationship between the character of religious education teachers with the growth of religious beliefs of students, (4) there was a significant relationship between school facilities and the growth of religious beliefs of guidance- and high-school students and (5) there was a significant relationship between methods of propagation in community with the growth of religious beliefs of guidance- and high-school students. Regarding the findings and the significant relationship between the said factors and the growth of religious beliefs, they should be given due consideration by the society.
Hoda Sadat Ahmadi; Fatemeh Zadehmuhammadi; Mahdieh Ma'soumbeigi; Faramarz Sohrabi
Volume 8, Issue 25 , October 2012, Pages 20-30
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The purpose of this research is to study the prevalence of Internet addiction and its relationship with age, sex and education level among Allameh Tabataba'i University students. For this purpose, 667 students who were internet users were selected by available sampling and took Young's Internet Addiction ...
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The purpose of this research is to study the prevalence of Internet addiction and its relationship with age, sex and education level among Allameh Tabataba'i University students. For this purpose, 667 students who were internet users were selected by available sampling and took Young's Internet Addiction Test. 0.9 percent of the population were addicted to internet while 14.5 percent were at risk. The results showed that the prevalence of Internet addiction among Allameh Tabataba'i University students is minimal compared to other available statistics. Moreover, the results of the meaningful test showed that the prevalence of Internet addiction in females and BA students is higher than males and MA students. Negative correlation between age and prevalence of Internet addiction also existed, but this relationship was not significant.
Hadi Ja'farinejad; Esma'il Sa'dipour; Mehrdad Hajihassani; Hiva Muhammadjani
Volume 8, Issue 25 , October 2012, Pages 36-56
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between personality traits, studying approaches and academic achievement in BA students at Allameh Tabataba’i University. The method used in the study was descriptive-correlational survey. In this research, a total sample of 110 students ...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between personality traits, studying approaches and academic achievement in BA students at Allameh Tabataba’i University. The method used in the study was descriptive-correlational survey. In this research, a total sample of 110 students was chosen by cluster sampling. The sampled students were asked to fill out the Personality Five-Factor Questionnaire along with the Approaches and Skills of Study Questionnaire, and their semester average was used as the criterion of academic achievement.The results of the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient showed that the relationship of neuroticism and surface approaches of studying with academic achievement was negative. The relationship between academic achievement and extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and deep approaches of studying was positive. Academic achievement was not associated with openness to experience. Furthermore, the multivariate regression analysis indicated that deep and surface approaches of studying, neuroticism, conscientiousness and extroversion could predict the academic achievement. Students who are more extroverted, agreeable or conscientious and use deeper studying approaches experience more academic achievement.
Somayyeh Azizi; Mansoureh Sadat Sadeqi; Muhammad Ali Mazaheri; Muhammad Ali Fayyazbakhsh
Volume 8, Issue 25 , October 2012, Pages 56-87
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This study is designed to investigate the relationship between religious practice and coping styles in students of religious and secular high schools and discover the impact of approaches taken by schools to religious education on the students’ religiosity and application of religion in their lives. ...
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This study is designed to investigate the relationship between religious practice and coping styles in students of religious and secular high schools and discover the impact of approaches taken by schools to religious education on the students’ religiosity and application of religion in their lives. Therefore, two religious and two secular non-profit high schools were selected through accessible proportional stratified sampling, and the students completed questioners measuring religious practice (Golzari, 2000) and coping styles (Frydenberg & Lewis, 1994). The results showed that there was no significant difference between students of secular and religious high schools in coping styles, yet some significant differences were found in coping strategies between these students. There were also significant differences between the students of secular and religious high schools in religious practice, so the mean of students of religious high schools were higher than the students of secular high schools. These differences demonstrate that students of religious high schools are in better situation because of their high scores in religious practice and some coping strategies.
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.
Hussein Eskandari
Volume 8, Issue 25 , October 2012, Pages 114-137
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In recent documents issued by the Ministry of Education, the word "Identity" has been frequently repeated and underlined. One of the main missions of the talent identification activities of schools is to foster different dimensions of identity such as personal identity, social identity and religious ...
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In recent documents issued by the Ministry of Education, the word "Identity" has been frequently repeated and underlined. One of the main missions of the talent identification activities of schools is to foster different dimensions of identity such as personal identity, social identity and religious identity. In this regard, this research is designed to identify whether there is any meaningful relationship between talent identification activities and identity dimensions (personal, social and religious). 24 schools housing 540 (male and female, rural and urban, guidance- and high-school) students were selected as the statistical sample through stage sampling method. In each school, two kinds of questionnaire were applied. One of them was also answered by talent identification teachers to assess the activities of the schools in the school year 2010-2011. The results showed that the students' scores for personal identity were high. Although their scores for social as well as religious identity were over average, they were not satisfactory. As reported by talent identification teachers, the activity level of 34% schools was high, 34% medium and 31% low. Among them, girls' schools were better than boy's, and urban schools outperformed rural ones. In regard of the main pivot of this research, the results showed that there is generally a positive meaningful relationship between talent identification activities of schools and social identity of the students while there is no relationship between these activities and the other two dimensions. Analysis of the results after the detachment of variables showed that there was no meaningful relationship in 19 cases, negative relationship in three cases and positive relationship only in two cases of the total 24 cases. These results may lead to this conclusion that talent identification activities have no important role in the formation of identity dimensions of students.
Hussein ' Zare; Vahideh Saleh Mirhassani
Volume 8, Issue 25 , October 2012, Pages 138-154
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The aim of this research is to study the impact of interactive mental imaginary and emotional load of words on recall and recognition. 40 postgraduate students were randomly selected to represent the control and experimental groups. The experimental group received training in interactive mental imagery ...
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The aim of this research is to study the impact of interactive mental imaginary and emotional load of words on recall and recognition. 40 postgraduate students were randomly selected to represent the control and experimental groups. The experimental group received training in interactive mental imagery in two sessions. Both groups were given a list of 30 words with negative, positive and neutral emotional load. Then, the number of words recalled and recognized by the two groups was assessed. The results of this study showed a significant difference in the rate of recall and recognition between the control group and the experimental one. Indeed, students who were trained could recall and recognize the presented words more than other subjects. Also, there was a significant difference between the score of recall and recognition in the two groups. According to the results of this study, recalling of words with emotional load was significantly higher than neutral words while the level of recognition of positive words was significantly higher than the other words. The findings of this study provided evidence for the significant impact of interactive mental imaginary and emotional load on recall and recognition.
