hamideh pakmehr; masoumeh azizi; Houshang Garavand
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The purpose of this study was to standardize the Art education curriculum orientation questionnaire for primary school teachers by the method of survey research. In this study, the original version of the Filani art education curriculum orientation questionnaire (2003) translated into Persian and modified. ...
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The purpose of this study was to standardize the Art education curriculum orientation questionnaire for primary school teachers by the method of survey research. In this study, the original version of the Filani art education curriculum orientation questionnaire (2003) translated into Persian and modified. Then, final form was prepared for implementation. The statistical society included all primary school teachers in Mashhad in the academic year 2020-2021 (13259 people) that 360 teachers were participated in the study using available sampling method. The validity of the questionnaire was evaluated from three aspects of content validity, structure and correlation between subscales. Examination of the comments of experts and teachers indicated the content validity of this tool. In order to evaluate the construct validity, the factor structure of the questionnaire was evaluated by confirmatory factor analysis with maximum likelihood method at the level of covariance matrix and the results showed that the confirmation model has an acceptable fit. Also, all extracted factor loads were higher than 0.40 and the distribution of questions in the subscales was approved. The correlation coefficients between subscales also showed that there are good internal relationships between subscales (P <0.001). To assess the validity of the art education curriculum orientation questionnaire, internal consistency was evaluated and Cronbach's alpha coefficients for child-centered, disciplinary and cultural subscales were 0.87, 0.88 and 0.87, respectively. Moreover, in order to compare the results of future research with the norm group in Iranian culture, the mean and standard deviation of each of the subscales of the questionnaire were reported. According to the findings, it can be said that the art education curriculum orientation questionnaire has desirable psychometric indicators.
Houshang Garavand; Hamideh Pakmehr
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The aim of this study was to investigate the mediatory role of the research spirit in relationship between motivational orientations and academic stress, with research self-efficacy to illustrate the relationship between research variables in the causal model. The research population included all Graduate ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the mediatory role of the research spirit in relationship between motivational orientations and academic stress, with research self-efficacy to illustrate the relationship between research variables in the causal model. The research population included all Graduate students of Kharazmi University in the academic year 2019-2020, that according to Loehlin & Beaujean, (2016), for sampling a statistical sample group with a sufficient number for the model, 15 persons were considered for each variable, of which 280 people were selected using random multi-stage cluster sampling method. The instruments for data gathering were: research self-efficacy questionnaire of salehi (2010), motivational orientations Questionnaire of salehi (2011), research spirit Questionnaire of shirzad & et al (2016) and the academic stress Questionnaire of kamkari & et al. (2010). The data were analysis by method structural equation modeling using softwares of 22-SPSS and 24-AMOS. The results showed that the proposed model has a good fit with the data of this study (RMSEA = 0.044, GFI = 0.99, AGFI = 0.96, CFI = 0.997). The directions of internal research motivation and external research motivation had a positive effect on research spirit and research self-efficacy. Research apathy had a direct and negative effect on research spirit; but it did not have a direct effect on research self-efficacy. Academic stressors had no direct effect on research morale and self-efficacy. Also, the direct effect of research spirit on research self-efficacy was positive and significant. Indirect results of the paths showed that the orientation, intrinsic motivation and research motivation have an indirect effect on research self-efficacy mediated by research spirit; however, external research motivation and academic pressures mediated by research spirit did not have an indirect effect on research self-efficacy. 46% of the dispersion of research spirit scores and 16% of the dispersion of research self-efficacy scores were explained by research motivation orientations and academic pressures. The findings were consistent with the results of previous similar studies and are an important step in explaining the factors affecting research self-efficacy and also as a suitable model for designing comprehensive programs affecting research.
Hosein Jafari Sani; seyed Kazem Alavi Langrodi; Hamideh Pakmehr
Volume 3, Issue 12 , May 2016, , Pages 37-46
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Because of importance of critical thinking attitudes in humanities, the research aimed at investigating the portion of curriculum approaches prediction on students' critical thinking attitudes in them. Research population in the descriptive-correlation study included all students' humanities in Ferdowsi ...
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Because of importance of critical thinking attitudes in humanities, the research aimed at investigating the portion of curriculum approaches prediction on students' critical thinking attitudes in them. Research population in the descriptive-correlation study included all students' humanities in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran in during academic year of 2013-2014. 366 students were selected by using stratified sampling method via Morgan and Kerjcie's table and complete questionnaires. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistic and regression analysis. Findings showed that among of six curriculum approaches, approaches’ systems, managerial, behavioral and academic not able to predict the students' critical thinking attitudes (p>0.05). But other two approaches including humanities and reconceptualist approach can predict critical thinking Disposition (F(1,364)=14/54 , P=0/000). To consideration of humanities role and reconceptualist approach in developing of students' critical thinking attitudes, suggests that human science going into nontechnical approach thus happen changes in humanities curricula.
