Majid Mahmoodi Mozafar
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This study examines the effectiveness of Tusi’s moral education approach on teachers' attitudes in the moral education process of elementary school students. The research method was quasi-experimental in which pretest-posttest design was used for experimental and control groups. The statistical ...
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This study examines the effectiveness of Tusi’s moral education approach on teachers' attitudes in the moral education process of elementary school students. The research method was quasi-experimental in which pretest-posttest design was used for experimental and control groups. The statistical population included elementary school teachers of Region 2 of Tehran. Sample group including 30 people in the experimental group and 30 people in the control group were selected randomly from subsidiary schools in Region 2 of Tehran. The measuring instrument was attitude measuring questionnaire developed by researchers inclusive of 30 questions with 5-point Likert scale which its reliability was 84.0 based on the retest score and was 85.0 based on Cronbach's alpha. The teachers attended in 8 4-hour training sessions in the form of a workshop. While understanding the attitude, they learned designing lesson plans skills based on the moral education of Tousi. The results showed that cognition and approaches design skills influence on change the human attitude in the process of moral education.
Kamran Ganji; Abolghasem Yaqoubi; Reza Lotfali
Volume 9, Issue 27 , April 2013, , Pages 2-26
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching questioning skills to teachers on critical thinking of male high school students. The design of the research was quasi-experimental, involving pretest-posttest and control group. The population consisted of all male high school students ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching questioning skills to teachers on critical thinking of male high school students. The design of the research was quasi-experimental, involving pretest-posttest and control group. The population consisted of all male high school students and teachers of Malayer, out of which 219 2nd and 3rd year students of humanities and electronics were randomly selected and analyzed in two groups (113 in control group and 106 in experimental group) and 8 classes. The experimental group consisting of 4 teachers (philosophy, logic, religious studies, and applied electronics) attended the questioning skills course, while the control group did not take part in the course. Form B of the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (Facione and Facione, 1997) was used for data collection. The collected data were analyzed using analysis of covariance and t tests. The findings and pretest scores showed that the students of both groups were equal with regards to age, course averages, IQ, critical thinking ability, and its subscales. The analysis of covariance showed that teaching questioning skills to the teachers increased the students’ critical thinking ability by 12%. Moreover, the five subscales of critical thinking ability increased as the following: analysis 9%, evaluation 12%, inference 4%, deductive reasoning 6%, and inductive reasoning 5%. The differences between the mean scores of critical thinking skills and its five subscales among students of humanities and electronics were not significant.
