Iraj Firoozfar; Alireza Faghihi; Nasrolah Erfani
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This study was conducted to develop a measurement model for the environmental ethics questionnaire. The research methodology was correlational and was conducted in measurement model. The statistical population of the study included all the 14391 secondary high school students in Hamadan city. The sample ...
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This study was conducted to develop a measurement model for the environmental ethics questionnaire. The research methodology was correlational and was conducted in measurement model. The statistical population of the study included all the 14391 secondary high school students in Hamadan city. The sample size, which was selected by stratified relative sampling method, was 986 students. The tool for data collection was the researcher-made Environmental Ethics Questionnaire (2019), which consisted of 5 components (i.e., water, soil, air, plants and animals). The initial questionnaire was developed on the basis of theoretical foundations and research background and contained 130 items. The content validity of the questionnaire was assessed by CVR method and the items with the relative validity coefficient of less than 0.29 (i.e., 26 items) were deleted. In addition, in a pilot study, the reliability of the questionnaire was calculated through Cronbach's alpha. After implementation of the questionnaire, the results showed that the structural model of environmental ethics has goodness of fit (GOF= 0.614). The results, also, indicated that all the questionnaire questions had a significant effect on their component. The results of the model, also, showed that the water component had the greatest effect on environmental ethics and the air component had the least effect on it. In addition, the results showed that there is a high internal correlation between the components of environmental ethics. In conclusion, it can be said that the researcher-made Environmental Ethics Questionnaire (2019) has the necessary psychometric characteristics for measuring environmental ethics.
Nasrolah Erfani
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The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of teaching the Quranic stories through the community of inquiry method on the moral judgment of students. The research method was semi-experimental by pretest-posttest with unequal control group design. A sample of 120 students was selected from ...
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The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of teaching the Quranic stories through the community of inquiry method on the moral judgment of students. The research method was semi-experimental by pretest-posttest with unequal control group design. A sample of 120 students was selected from the statistical population of the male and female students of the sixth grade of primary schools in Hamedan during the academic year of 2017-18. They were selected by multi-stage random sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups were replaced. For data collection, the Moral Judgment Test of Sinha and Varma (1998) was used in the pretest and post-test. The experimental group received a course of teaching Quranic stories during 2.5 months in 10 ninety-minute sessions. The text book was the collection of stories from the prophets and great religious men from Sayegostar publication. The course was not provided for the education control group. To analyze the data, multivariate and simple covariance analysis was used. Data were analyzed with SPSS-24 software. The results showed that the mean scores of moral judgment and its components among the students of the experimental group were significantly higher than the control group. Therefore, the research hypothesis was confirmed. Also, the results showed that the gender and interactive effect of education on students' moral judgment scores was not significant. Therefore, it can be said that teaching the Quranic stories by method of the community of inquiry have a similar effect on the moral judgment of male and female students. Thus, it can be concluded that the teaching of Quranic stories through the method of the community of inquiry can be used to enhance the moral judgment of male and female students.
