sima alizadeh; MohammadReza Sarmadi; Mohammad Hassan Seif; Saeid Mazloumian
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This study was conducted with the aim of standardizing the Pedagogical content knowledge scale of high school teachers in using digital games.The present study is a correlational study with the statistical population including all high school teachers in Urmia. In this study, two areas were selected ...
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This study was conducted with the aim of standardizing the Pedagogical content knowledge scale of high school teachers in using digital games.The present study is a correlational study with the statistical population including all high school teachers in Urmia. In this study, two areas were selected randomly from education districts and then Questionnaires were distributed among high school teachers in district 2 using the relative stratified sampling method.To assess the Pedagogical content knowledge of digital games the questionnaire of Sue et al (2013) was used. Finally, the data were analyzed through confirmatory factor analysis statistical test. In confirmatory factor analysis, the goodness of fit indices showed good fit of the model. The results also showed that all items of Urmia High School Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge Scale were acceptable in using factor loaded digital games.And none of the items were removed from the Sue et al.Questionnaire (2013). It should be noted that in the subscale of game knowledge, item 1 with factor loadings (0/779) , in the subscale of Pedagogical game knowledge, item 9 with factor loadings (0/745) , in the subscale of game content knowledge, factor 12 with operating load (0/761) is considered to be the most relevant items for each component of game knowledge, Pedagogical game knowledge, and game content knowledge. The Pedagogical content knowledge of high school teachers in the city of Urmia in using digital games has a good content and structural validity and can be used to evaluate the Pedagogical content knowledge of other high schools in using digital games.
Saeid Mazloumian
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The aim of this study assesses training needs based on DACUM method and educational standard of ISO 10015. The study population that consist of all engineers of Petrochemical Industries Design and Engineering Company project were studied on 103 persons by Census and purposeful way. The research tools ...
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The aim of this study assesses training needs based on DACUM method and educational standard of ISO 10015. The study population that consist of all engineers of Petrochemical Industries Design and Engineering Company project were studied on 103 persons by Census and purposeful way. The research tools consisted of two questionnaires. The first questionnaire based on the standard requirements of ISO 10015 and the second questionnaire based on DACUM method and opinion of project expert engineers, qualifications and competencies in three dimensions like knowledge, attitude and skills are developed and collected after the validity and reliability. This study as functional goal and combined method include both section,qualitative and quantitative. The results show that between current and desirable situation of training needs assessment that it based on ISO 10015 from the perspective of project engineers there is a significant difference and documenting and determining the required standards to identify required competencies for each job has the highest priority. Also the results show that by Dacum method, engineers of design and petrochemical engineering company project have six main task and thirty sub-task. Review the training needs of engineers in three dimensions as knowledge, skills and attitude, according to DACUM method shows that there are significant differences between the current and desired situation and also the findings showed that in the knowledge dimention, understanding and knowledge management component and in the skills dimention, mastering principles and techniques of negotiation component, in the attitude dimention, flexibility component has the highest priority, which will be considered as the most important educational needs of project’s engineers.
