Reza Morad Sahra’i; Sharareh Khaleqizadeh
Volume 8, Issue 26 , January 2013, , Pages 3-30
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Conducting an applied research, the authors of this article sought to investigate the strategies applied by foreign students for learning Persian as their second language. Learning strategies are defined by Oxford (1990) as “specific actions taken by the learner to make learning easier, faster, ...
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Conducting an applied research, the authors of this article sought to investigate the strategies applied by foreign students for learning Persian as their second language. Learning strategies are defined by Oxford (1990) as “specific actions taken by the learner to make learning easier, faster, more enjoyable, more self-directed, more effective, and more transferrable to new situations.” Different studies have supported the claim. While they have been repeatedly addressed in different languages, including English, only cognitive and meta-cognitive learning strategies have been studied by Iranian researchers. This research was conducted using the Oxford Learning Strategies Questionnaire (1990). First, the 50-question questionnaire was translated into Persian. Then, its reliability was calculated through a pilot test taken by 30 Persian learners. Cronbach’s alpha was 0.80. Therefore, the questionnaire was revised to some extent to compensate for the low coefficient. Words deemed difficult by the participants were replaced by less difficult ones. 156 students who studied Persian as their second language in Imam Khomeini International University filled in the revised questionnaire. The data were then analyzed by SPSS. The findings demonstrated that Persian language learners sometimes used Persian learning strategies. Moreover, they were shown to use meta-cognitive strategies more and retrieval strategies less than other strategies.
jalil Younesi
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Evaluating the effectiveness of behavioral interventions in various educational and therapeutic situations in experimental designs requires identifying the structure of collected data and appropriate methods of data analysis. Considering that researchers mainly use ANCOVA to analyze the data of the pretest-posttest ...
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Evaluating the effectiveness of behavioral interventions in various educational and therapeutic situations in experimental designs requires identifying the structure of collected data and appropriate methods of data analysis. Considering that researchers mainly use ANCOVA to analyze the data of the pretest-posttest control group designs in dyadic samples, in this article with a research example of the data collected from a pretest-posttest control group design, the application and the accuracy of the ANCOVA results and the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) approach have been compared. The results showed that the APIM model contains more information than ANCOVA; The APIM model makes it possible to estimate the effects of actors and partners and consider them in interpretation and conclusions. When the significance level of rejecting or accepting the hypothesis is close to the critical level of 0.05, there is a contradiction between the results of these two methods, and in these cases, one should act very cautiously for interpretation and final conclusions. In cases where the significance level is far from 0.05, there is no problem and the results of the two approaches are consistent. The shift in focus to the unit of analysis allows researchers to study the complex processes and underlying processes of social interactions with much greater validity.
javad Einipour; Ashab Habibzadeh; soghra ebrahimi qavam
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The atmosphere and environment in which the training takes place affects the motivation and learning of the individual with different qualities. Environmental-social factors are as the spirit of the universities. The aim of this study was to develop a model of the impact of environmental and social factors ...
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The atmosphere and environment in which the training takes place affects the motivation and learning of the individual with different qualities. Environmental-social factors are as the spirit of the universities. The aim of this study was to develop a model of the impact of environmental and social factors on the cycle of academic motivation- lifelong learning of police students. This research is of quantitative-qualitative type. The statistical population of this study, in the quantitative part, were all students of Amin police University in associate and bachelor degrees, which were 733 people, 219 of whom were selected by stratified sampling method, and in the qualitative part included professors and elites. A focus group of 10 of them was purposefully formed as a sample. Researcher-made tool of environmental-social factors affecting academic motivation and learning, Harter standard motivation questionnaire (1981) and lifelong learning questionnaire of Wetzel et al. (2010) were used in quantitative part and semi-structured interview form in qualitative part. Analysis of quantitative data showed that the variables of family relationship with university, reduction of extra programs positively and civilian relations negatively were the most important variables predicting academic motivation. Also, the variables of civil relations and feedback mechanisms, lack of stress and space were all positively the most important predictors of learning in students of Amin police University. According to the results of the focus group, while the academic motivation of police students is more influenced by military discipline, lifelong learning is influenced by the feedback mechanism
mohamad jamshidi; khadijeh aliabadi; mohamadreza nili ahmadabadi; esmaeil zarei zavaraki
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The purpose of this study was the effect of mobile learning on improving the performance of Allameh Tabatabai University staff. The research method is quantitative and quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population of this study was the staff of Allameh ...
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The purpose of this study was the effect of mobile learning on improving the performance of Allameh Tabatabai University staff. The research method is quantitative and quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population of this study was the staff of Allameh Tabatabai University that 54 university staff (28 in the control group and 26 in the experimental group) were selected by convenience sampling method. Which were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. First, the pre-test was performed on the members of the experimental and control groups, and then the training package prepared on the subject of time management on mobile learning was provided to the experimental group. The conventional method was taught at the university for 4 weeks. At the end of the post-test was performed on both groups. The training package including the four dimensions of time management in the form of text, PowerPoint and short educational videos (micro learning) along with educational goals and end-of-course evaluation was provided to the staff of Allameh Tabatabai University. After training by the training package and conducting pre-test and post-test to evaluate time management knowledge, a staff performance questionnaire has been reviewed to assess the amount of adequate time utilization. This questionnaire had validity, reliability and scoring. Therefore, the mobile learning training package has increased the knowledge of time management of Allameh Tabatabai University staff and also due to the high
Mehrnoosh Mottahedin; fariborz dortaj; Fatemeh Ghaemi; Reza Ghorban Jahromi
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Abstract The Internet has far-reaching effects on various aspects of human life and the extreme use of the Internet is associated with numerous personal and social harms. The present study investigates the mediating role of emotion regulation strategies and psychological distress in the relationship ...
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Abstract The Internet has far-reaching effects on various aspects of human life and the extreme use of the Internet is associated with numerous personal and social harms. The present study investigates the mediating role of emotion regulation strategies and psychological distress in the relationship between insecure attachment and problematic internet use. The present study was descriptive-correlational and structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the present study was all students studying in the undergraduate and graduate courses of the Islamic Azad University, Research Sciences, Center and Karaj Branch in the academic year 2019-2020. By cluster sampling method, 397 people were selected as the sample group. Data collection tools included Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, scale for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale and Adult Attachment Scale. Data analysis was performed by Pearson correlation coefficient and path analysis using LISREL software. The results showed that psychological distress (0.50), maladaptive strategies (0.23), adaptive strategies (-0.21), avoidant attachment (0.11), and ambivalent attachment (0.10) have the highest to the lowest correlation coefficient with harmful use of the Internet (P <0.05). Strategies for regulating emotional distress and distress also mediated the relationship between insecure attachment style and problematic internet use. Accordingly, in the field of designing the necessary measures to reduce the problematic internet use, programs can be developed to improve insecure attachment styles, emotion regulation strategies and psychological distress.
maryam gheytarifi; khosro rashid
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some people believe that video games have negative correlation with mental health and scholastic performance and influences the range of aggressive behaviours, anxiety, and deppression in people do it. The goal of this research was studying the effect of doing video games on students mental health and ...
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some people believe that video games have negative correlation with mental health and scholastic performance and influences the range of aggressive behaviours, anxiety, and deppression in people do it. The goal of this research was studying the effect of doing video games on students mental health and scholastic performance(a group that didn,t play video qemes,e group that play a little and a group that play very much).Dependent variable of this study were mental health(with it, s five subgroups named anxiety, hostility, deppression, somatization, & interpersonal sensivity)and scholastic i performance. Statistical universe of this study were all students of the guidance school of Tehran city in 1383-84 scholastic year. Sample volume were 606 students (involve girls and sons) that were selected randomly.Measurement equipment was Sympytom Chekhlist-90- R.Results showed that there is a meaningful differences between mental healths of students didn,t play video games and the students that played very much. This difference were between this two groups in hostility, somatization and anxiety too. There were meaningful difference in hostility between the students played video games a little and those played very much.too. There wasn,t any meaningful difference between these three groups in scholastic performance.
nour ali farrokhi; ali akbar seyf
esmail biaban gard; rasoul kord nowghabi; ali akbar seyf
karam afshar nia; ali delavar
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This study sought to investigate and compare the efficiency of cognitive behavior therapy. Self-help method and interaction of these two methods (cognitive behavior therapy and Self-help method) on enhancing marital satisfaction of couples. This investigation is an empirical investigation with pre-test, ...
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This study sought to investigate and compare the efficiency of cognitive behavior therapy. Self-help method and interaction of these two methods (cognitive behavior therapy and Self-help method) on enhancing marital satisfaction of couples. This investigation is an empirical investigation with pre-test, post-test design with control group. So. a sample o/ 49 couples was selected from couples referring to counseling center of Kermanshah Azad University and they were randomly assigned to four groups: I- cognitive behavioral ( 12 couples). 2- self-help (! 5 couples). 3- cognitive behavioral + self-help (/0 couples), n-control (12 couples). After pooling data by Enrich Marital Satisfaction Inventor, analysis of data examination of hypotheses was done dy using one-way analysis of variance and LSD test by SPSS software. Rsult showed that there is a significant difference of the extent o/ satisfaction in experimental groups (p<0/01). Examination of mean marital satisfaction o/ therapeutic group showed that a combination o/ cognitive behavior therapy and self-help method has the highest effect 011 enhancement of marital satisfaction of the couples
Salehe Piriaei; Molouk Khademi
Volume 11, Issue 38 , January 2016, , Pages 1-20
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Introduction: The purpose of this research was designing and testing a model for the effect of two school goal structure on student’s motivational constructs considering the mediating role of perceived teacher’s support as emotionally and instrumentally. Method: The present study is correlational ...
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Introduction: The purpose of this research was designing and testing a model for the effect of two school goal structure on student’s motivational constructs considering the mediating role of perceived teacher’s support as emotionally and instrumentally. Method: The present study is correlational and structural equation modeling. The sample consisted of 210 third-year high school students in Isfahan who were selected by multistage random sampling method. The instruments which used in this study were school goal structure (school learning goal structure and school performance goal structure) , Students’ perceptions of the teachers as emotionally supportive scale, teacher’s instrument support scale, intrinsic work motivation, effort and help seeking behavior questionnaires. Fitness of the proposed model was examined through structural equation modeling (SEM), using SPSS-22 and AMOS-18 software packages. The indirect effects were tested using the Baron & Kenny (1986) method. Results: Findings indicated that the proposed model fit the data properly. Three Indirect effects in the model were also confirmed. Better fit obtained by omitting 2 non-significant paths and using AMOS modification indices.Conclusion: The study strongly indicates that schools should strive to establish a learning goal structure.
asgar choobdari; hamid alizadeh; parviz sharifi; mohammad asgari
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the executive function training program on verbal reasoning and fluid reasoning in students with visual impairment. The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest with control group. The study population consisted of all ...
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the executive function training program on verbal reasoning and fluid reasoning in students with visual impairment. The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest with control group. The study population consisted of all students with visual impairment in elementary school in Tehran that were selected by convenience sampling and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group received an executive function training program over 8-session period and the control group did not receive any intervention. verbal reasoning and reasoning subscales of Wechsler intelligence were used for data collection. Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance. Results showed that the effect of executive function training program on verbal and fluid reasoning in students with visual impairment (p <0.05). Therefore, based on the results, it can be stated that the executive function training program can be used as an effective intervention to improve verbal reasoning and fluid reasoning.
Jamalodin Kolaeinezhad; Kazem Hassani; Fouziyeh Abdipour; Sahra Faramarzi
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This research aims to know Kurdish auxiliary schoolbook based upon combined method and its influence on reinforcing reading and writing in elementary first grade Persian book named “ Bekhanim and Benevisim” among bilingual children of Marivan in school year 1391-92. Certain test based on ...
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This research aims to know Kurdish auxiliary schoolbook based upon combined method and its influence on reinforcing reading and writing in elementary first grade Persian book named “ Bekhanim and Benevisim” among bilingual children of Marivan in school year 1391-92. Certain test based on specifications, content- narrative table was performed to gain information and first-grade teachers and scholars were asked to survey test content in a systematic way evaluating its connection with content scope. Five teachers confirmed that test questions do reflect sufficiently content scope and the content had been extracted from schoolbooks themselves. The content was also validated by professors (consultant and guiding professor) after adjusting and its consistency had been determined 0.7 by Cronbach Alpha which shows that consistency is favorable after testing. Since there were more variables than a dependent one, a multivariate variance has been implemented to analyze. The results in this research showed that teaching Kurdish auxiliary schoolbook based on combined method between control and test groups in regard to reading in the first step, namely learning step of reading, writing in the step of handwriting, and writing in dictation phase is to the benefit of test group in general. Consequently, teaching Kurdish auxiliary schoolbook based upon combined method reinforces and strengthens reading and writing in first grade Persian book named “Bekhanim va Benevisim” of bilingual children.
روانشناسی یادگیری
Elahe Hejazi; Atefeh Azimi
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Abstract The present study was provided with the aim of predicting self regulated learning strategies by perceived social support, academic self efficacy and outcome expectation. For this purpose the sample of 303 student (207 girls and 96 men) were selected from faculties of tehran behavioural university. ...
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Abstract The present study was provided with the aim of predicting self regulated learning strategies by perceived social support, academic self efficacy and outcome expectation. For this purpose the sample of 303 student (207 girls and 96 men) were selected from faculties of tehran behavioural university. Data collected from juniors and Fourth year students by the use of random stratified sampling method. Multidimensional Scale of Peceived Social Support (MPSS) Questionnaire Zimet and etal (1988), College Academic Self-Efficacy questionnire (CASE) Owen and froman(1988) and Student Outcome Expectations Scale (SOES) Landry(2003) had been applied for this study. Results of using stepwise regression indicated that Perceived social support, Academic self efficacy, Outcome expectation can predict self regulated learning strategies. For comparing males and females in research variables Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) had been used. The findings showed that girls reported more perceived social support and outcome expectation than boys and boys were reported more academic self-efficacy than girls.
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Volume 4, Issue 13 , October 2008, , Pages 16-47
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Since one of the most important problems of our era is social identity and spirituality loss, today thinkers of educational sciences pay serious attention to social education as one of the education presences. The social education of human causes prevalence of individual over self-determination in the ...
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Since one of the most important problems of our era is social identity and spirituality loss, today thinkers of educational sciences pay serious attention to social education as one of the education presences. The social education of human causes prevalence of individual over self-determination in the knowledgeable, communicational and emotional fields. It means that human doesn’t set, the situation, recognition, information and his interest and behaviour a basis for judgement but searches his welfare in others welfare and this matter causes the extension and development of social welfare. To care of the importance of the social education problem, this paper inspects the methods of the social education in three important writings of Molla Mohsen Feyz Kashani; “Mahajatolbayza, Alhaghayegh, Menhajo Nejat”. This research after conceptualization, briefly inspects the methods of the social education such as kindness, temperance, command to good and prohibition from bad, negligence and moderateness from Feyz Kashani point of view.In regard to subject this research is descriptive, with a view to the method commentary and from gathering point of view libratory.
Maqsood Amin Khandaqi; Maliheh Rajee
Volume 9, Issue 28 , July 2013, , Pages 16-40
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Considering the relationship between individuals' learning styles and their preferred teaching styles, this paper aims at studying the effect of the students' learning styles on their preferred teaching styles in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. 180 out of 500 students are randomly selected in the ...
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Considering the relationship between individuals' learning styles and their preferred teaching styles, this paper aims at studying the effect of the students' learning styles on their preferred teaching styles in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. 180 out of 500 students are randomly selected in the academic year of 2010-211 by using Morgan's formula and completed "learning styles" and "teaching styles" questionnaires. The results show that many subjects are inclined towards active teaching style and have assimilation and convergent learning styles. In addition, students preferring active teaching style have often divergent learning style. It is suggested that instructors use active teaching methods and consider various techniques when designing their instructions in order to make students skillful in various learning styles and provide opportunities for their academic achievements.
Mohammad Ali Mazaheri Tehrani; Smaeil Shiri; Mostafa Valipour
Volume 11, Issue 36 , July 2015, , Pages 17-38
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Bullying is a worldwide problem in most schools that can cause physical and psychological impairment on both the bully and the victim. The purpose of this study was to examine the scope of this behavior in Zanjan secondary schools. Using available sampling method, 132 secondary students (93 boys and ...
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Bullying is a worldwide problem in most schools that can cause physical and psychological impairment on both the bully and the victim. The purpose of this study was to examine the scope of this behavior in Zanjan secondary schools. Using available sampling method, 132 secondary students (93 boys and 39 girls) were selected from four Zanjan secondary schools. All participants were asked to answer individually to the Persian translation of the Bullying Questionnaire (Elena Buccoliere and Marello Darbo, 1991). The result of this study indicated that 80% of students believe the existence of bullying in schools. Although 40.9% of them have witnessed such a behavior, 33.3% were victims and 9.8% were bullies themselves and finally 16% experienced combination of these cases. The results showed that 57% of bullying is done verbally, 40% physically, and 2.56% is of social kind. The study showed that around 57% of the students support the bully when witnessing these situation( for example by laughing, making fun of the victims and frightening them) and only less than 29% respond to the situation by showing no support for the bully (for example by supporting the victims). In terms of the schools staff, results indicated that in the 70% of instances, the schools officials’ responses would intensify bullying, while only in 28.8% of the cases, the staff responses would decrease or stop bullying.considering that bullying threats students’ psychological and physical health,it is necessary and of great importance to predict and control such behavior in schools. Therefore schools should take certain policies to teach the schools’ officials to prevent and intervene in such unpleasant behavior, and also to lessen the devastating effects of these behaviors.
Ebrahim Abolghasemi; Esmaeil zaraiizavaraki; Mohmmadreza Aahmadzadeh
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This study aims to investigate academic learning centers globally and provide a comprehensive plan to establish the universities. In this study, the components and features of educational content, human resources, physical environment, organization, media and equipment have been studied and analyzed. ...
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This study aims to investigate academic learning centers globally and provide a comprehensive plan to establish the universities. In this study, the components and features of educational content, human resources, physical environment, organization, media and equipment have been studied and analyzed. The research method is descriptive - analytical and sampling is also targeted. The population included all academic learning centers in the world-class design and is available on the website. In addition, academic learning centers and Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran are a statistical population. Also, all experts working in universities, administrators, professors, and experts are among the target population. The number of specimens in the world is 8 academic learning centers. A research-made checklist was used to collect data. The results show that the difference between academic learning centers worldwide and academic learning centers in Iranian educational systems is meaningful, in terms of the physical environment is meaningful, in terms of staffing, meaningful, and in terms of the media is significant, materials and equipment, is insignificant. The plan to set up a center of academic learning and the design was presented to the university.
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.
روانشناسی یادگیری
mosa bandak
Volume 11, Issue 37 , October 2015, , Pages 19-33
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The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of life skills training on academic self-efficacy. The study population consisted of all elementary school students in Boolbanabad city. The sampling method used in this study was random sampling. For data gathering, the academic self-efficacy questionnaire ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of life skills training on academic self-efficacy. The study population consisted of all elementary school students in Boolbanabad city. The sampling method used in this study was random sampling. For data gathering, the academic self-efficacy questionnaire MJSES (1999), before and after life skills training, was distributed among the students. Content intended to train students in the life skills program was cognitive skills, how to record maintenance information, wise use of resources, self-esteem, resiliency, problem solving thinking. The data were analyzed by SPSS-19 software, using analysis of covariance. The results showed that life skills training can affect students’ academic self-efficacy. Because these skills increase their knowledge of learning how to be better able to remember information and therefore have less forgetfulness. Therefore, their self-concept and academic achievement will be positive.
abbas razavi; majid ja'fari zadeh
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between television viewing and academic achievement of male students in Kennan secondary schools. Using cluster sampling g' technique, 600 male students selected randomly from the students of high schools in Kennan (N=18760). A questionnaire ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between television viewing and academic achievement of male students in Kennan secondary schools. Using cluster sampling g' technique, 600 male students selected randomly from the students of high schools in Kennan (N=18760). A questionnaire was used to gather data. A pilot administration showed considerable reliability (a=0.72). 7 experts in education examined the validity of gathering data tool. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics (eg. Pearson correlation coefficient, Chi-square and One-sample Test). Results indicated that there is no significant relationship between television viewing and student academic achievement. Also there is not a significant relationship between favorite programs and student academic achievement and it was revealed that the students prefer more to watch adult programs than specific children programs.
alireza manzaritavakoli; najmeh araghi
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his study aims at religiosity and happiness and their relation among the students of kerman Islamic azad university in 2009- 2010.In this survey 200 girl students out of 5440 students of Kerman Islamic Azad University were selected randomly. The study is based on the correlation Research methodology. ...
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his study aims at religiosity and happiness and their relation among the students of kerman Islamic azad university in 2009- 2010.In this survey 200 girl students out of 5440 students of Kerman Islamic Azad University were selected randomly. The study is based on the correlation Research methodology. This survey in cludes question tools are religiosity test (sadeghi 2008) and happiness test (oxford2003) and descriptive statistics and statistical inference methods were used to analyze the details and the study hypothesizes. Finally the findings are analyzed by spss software. According to the results, there is a positive and meaningful correlation between religiosity among happiness. It also maintains that there is a positive and meaningful correlation between three other components of religiosity behavior, religious knowledge and religious look and happiness
روانشناسی یادگیری
Shahram Vahedi; moosa piri
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The concept mapping as learning- teaching strategy has positive effects on cognitive and non-cognitive aspects of learning and it facilitates meaningful learning. The study examined the effect of concept-mapping on mathematical problem- solving performance and self-concept among 5th graders elementary ...
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The concept mapping as learning- teaching strategy has positive effects on cognitive and non-cognitive aspects of learning and it facilitates meaningful learning. The study examined the effect of concept-mapping on mathematical problem- solving performance and self-concept among 5th graders elementary school students. A pretest and posttest control-group quasi-experimental design was employed to evaluate the instructional effectiveness of this strategy. Thirty boys were randomly selected from two elementary schools located in Bostanabad District of Tabriz city, Iran was used as subjects for the study. One classroom of 15 fifth-grade students made up the experimental group, and 15 fifth-grade classrooms students comprised the control group. The experimental group was taught selected topics in math using concept-mapping strategies, while the control group was taught using the traditional lecture method. The Self-Description Questionnaires (SDQ) and mathematical performance test were used for data collection. Data have been analyzed by ANCOVA and T-test. The result of the study showed that the experimental group performed significantly better in mathematical problem solving than the control group. Also, the findings revealed that the concept mapping promotes students’ mathematics self-concept.
Mousayeb Yarmohammadi Vasel (PhD)
Volume 5, Issue 14 , July 2009, , Pages 20-41
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The purpose of this study was to find out the relationship between Math Anxiety with low academic achievement and Predictors of Math Anxiety in Guidance schools. The research method was retrospective cohort and causal comparative study. In this study, the subjects were recruited from North Khorasan province. ...
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The purpose of this study was to find out the relationship between Math Anxiety with low academic achievement and Predictors of Math Anxiety in Guidance schools. The research method was retrospective cohort and causal comparative study. In this study, the subjects were recruited from North Khorasan province. The research statistical population comprised all pupils with low academic achievement in mathematic (their mathematic scores was lower than 10). The sample included 438 pupils (288 with low mathematic achievement and 150 with high mathematic achievement) who were chosen using cluster and stratified sampling method. The instruments were a wide range of topics, including demographic information, behavioral of teachers and parental, mathematic self-concept Inventory, mathematic anxiety Inventory, mathematic motivation Inventory, and educational motivation Inventory. The results revealed that the rate of academic drop out was 25/13%, and there was a negative relationship between math anxiety and performance mathematic (-0.51). The variables of mathematic self-concept, mathematic motivation, educational motivation and the effort of pupils had negative relationship with math anxiety. It has also been identified key factors behavioral of teachers and parental, mathematic self-concept, mathematic motivation, social participation, goal orientation and self assurance that can be considered as early predictors of mathematic anxiety. This may help administrators and teachers enhance their ability to prevent and treat mathematics anxiety through better instruction to their pupils.
Zahra Koumijani (MA); Janet HashemiAzar (PhD)
Volume 5, Issue 15 , January 2010, , Pages 20-34
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The purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of play therapy on decreasing behavioral disorders of physically- emotionally abused students of 9 -12 years old inTehran city. From the population, of all the physically- emotionally abused students inhabiting supportive institutes of ...
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The purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of play therapy on decreasing behavioral disorders of physically- emotionally abused students of 9 -12 years old inTehran city. From the population, of all the physically- emotionally abused students inhabiting supportive institutes of Tehran , an available sample of 24 people were selectedand assigned into two groups of experiment (n=12) and control (n=12). The experiment group had10, 45 minute sessions of play therapy twice a week with 5 individual sessions and 5 group sessions. After finishing play therapy program, both groups were given post-test. Data collecting instrument used here was Achenbach Children Behavioral Check List (CBCL). Since we lack the assumption of having a normal distribution, we analyzed data using non-parametric test of Umann-whitney. Findings demonstrated that play therapy decreases the degree of anxiety/depression in physically-emotionally abused students but it doesn’t decrease the degree of behavioral disorders,aggression, withdrawn, depression, and attention problem in physically-emotionally abused students. Although play therapy was effective within groups and has decreased the degree of these disorders, it was not however significantly effective enough to statistically differentiate the groups.
Seyed Abbas Razavi (MA); Hassan Malek (PhD); Abbas Abbaspour (PhD); Sogra Ebrehimi Qavam (PhD)
Volume 6, Issue 16 , April 2010, , Pages 20-66
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he purpose of the present research was to studycurrent status of political education in formal elementary curriculum. The method used was descriptive-analytical. The main research techniques were qualitative content analysis and document review. So, textbooks and curriculum framework ...
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he purpose of the present research was to studycurrent status of political education in formal elementary curriculum. The method used was descriptive-analytical. The main research techniques were qualitative content analysis and document review. So, textbooks and curriculum framework of social studies, Persian language and Islamic education were used in analysis process. The results show that the current status of political education in the elementary curriculum is not desirable. Most of objectives are addressed cognitive and affective domain, while less attention has been paid to political skills or psycho-motor domain. Other findings revealed that content of political education have failed to provide a good opportunity for political education in elementary schools based on religious democracy theory. Although proposed teaching and evaluation methods and techniques appear to be optimal, however due to the weakness and shortcomings of educational content, cannot be affective. And finally between the mentioned curricula from the perspective of political education there is no coordination.
