Motivation and Learning
shokoufeh mousavi; Ali khodaei; Omid Shokri
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The results of various studies have supported the critical role of the motivation construct in providing students with successful experiences in all areas of academic achievement. Therefore, this research conducted to study the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Persian version of the ...
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The results of various studies have supported the critical role of the motivation construct in providing students with successful experiences in all areas of academic achievement. Therefore, this research conducted to study the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Mathematics Motivation Questionnaire in adolescents. In this descriptive survey research, 350 adolescents selected from the statistical population of first-secondary girls in the fourth educational district of Tehran using the available sampling method and responded to the Mathematics Motivation Questionnaire (Fiorilla et al., 2021), the revised version of the Stress Measure Scale (Royley, Roysch, Jarica, & Wagen, 2005) and Psychological Capital Questionnaire - Adolescent Version (Luthans, Auliou, Avi, & Norman, 2007). The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the MMQ had good factorial validity with a five-factor structure consisting of intrinsic value, self-regulation, self-efficacy, utility value and test anxiety. In addition, the results related to the correlation between the dimensions of students’ Mathematics Motivation with their cognitive appraisals of failure experiences in the context of responding to the demands of mathematics lessons, and the the psychological capital of learners in situations of academic achievement, supported the validity of the MMQ. In sum, these results, while emphasizing the theoretical soundness of the conceptual underlying of the Mathematics Motivation Questionnaire, on the one hand, by repeating the factor structure of this assessment tool, it supported the context-independent function of motivational constructs and on the other hand, the necessity of understanding the context of motivational constructs based on the specific demands of different subjects.
Normalization questionnaires and tools school learning
Zahra Maleki; Omid Shokri; Fatemeh Almasi
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The influence of academic support on students’ academic and personal development has been previously demonstrated. Therefore, this research conducted with the aim of validating the Persian version of the Perceived Academic Support Questionnaire (PASQ) for adolescents. Four hundred adolescents (200 ...
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The influence of academic support on students’ academic and personal development has been previously demonstrated. Therefore, this research conducted with the aim of validating the Persian version of the Perceived Academic Support Questionnaire (PASQ) for adolescents. Four hundred adolescents (200 girls and 200 boys), selected using a convenience sampling method, responded to the Perceived Academic Support Questionnaire (Reyes & et al., 2022), the Academic Interest Scale for adolescents (Luo & et al., 2019), the Brief Regulation of Motivation Scale (Kim & et al., 2018) and the Motivational Persistence Scale (Constantin & et al., 2012). The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the PASQ had good factorial validity with a three-factor structure consisting of academic support from teachers, family, and peers. In addition, the results related to the correlation between the dimensions of academic support with motivational regulation, motivational persistence and academic interest supported the criterion validity of the Persian version of the PASQ. The results of multi-group confirmatory factor analysis revealed the cross-group invariance of factorial structure, factor loadings, and factor variances and covariances of the PASQ across male and female adolescents. Internal consistency for the academic support from family, teachers and peers subscales was 0/90, 0/83 & 0/83, respectively. The validation results of the Persian version of the academic support questionnaire for adolescents showed that this scale has good validity and reliability and can used in future studies
Motivation and Learning
fateme rashidipour; Omid Shokri; Jalil Fathabadi; Hossein Pourshahriar
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The aim of this research was to develop a comprehensive motivational design program for students. Employing a mixed-method approach using an explanatory sequential design, we integrated the six-step process of intervention mapping, theories on motivation, volition, and performance (Keller's, 2018), along ...
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The aim of this research was to develop a comprehensive motivational design program for students. Employing a mixed-method approach using an explanatory sequential design, we integrated the six-step process of intervention mapping, theories on motivation, volition, and performance (Keller's, 2018), along with commonly utilized components in motivational interventions. As a result, a "motivational design" training package was formulated for students. This finalized educational program was implemented across ten virtual sessions, each lasting two hours, in a virtual way for the experimental groups. The program's effectiveness was assessed through a quasi-experimental study employing pre-test and post-test design and control group. Based on the results obtained from the qualitative part of the research, the components of enriching attention skills, perceived communication, competence and perceived academic self-confidence, satisfaction and self-regulation processes, problem solving and time management were the basis for shaping the content of the comprehensive program of motivational design. Moreover, quantitative outcomes from a simple mixed variance analysis indicated that the motivational design program effectively enhanced facilitative behaviors conducive to a health- Oriented academic lifestyle, mitigated behaviors hindering such a lifestyle, and bolstered academic coping strategies. In conclusion, this study underscores that the motivational design program through strengthening concentration, attention and interest, improving positive thinking strategies, adaptive emotion management strategies, correcting goal orientations and ineffective attributions and enriching cognitive and metacognitive skills of self-regulation, was effective in improving learners' motivational profiles
Motivation and Learning
Fatemeh Ataee; Omid Shokri; Shahla Pakdaman
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This study examined the mediating effect of cognitive coping strategies and achievement emotions on the relationship between mental toughness and academic lifestyle behaviors among male and female gifted students. In this correlational study, 288 gifted students (141 male and 147 female) responded to ...
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This study examined the mediating effect of cognitive coping strategies and achievement emotions on the relationship between mental toughness and academic lifestyle behaviors among male and female gifted students. In this correlational study, 288 gifted students (141 male and 147 female) responded to the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire-Revised (Garenofski & Kraaij, 2006), the Health-oriented Academic life-style Questionnaire (Salehzadeh, Shokri & Fathabadi, 2017a), the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire-Revised (Abdollahpour, 2015) and Mental Toughness Questionnaire-Revised (Wagnall, Donovan, Papa Georgiou, Clough, Parker & Drinkwater, 2019). Structural equation modeling was used to assess the proposed gifted students. Results indicated that for gifted students, the partially mediated model of adaptive and nonadaptive cognitive coping strategies and positive and negative achievement emotions on the relationship between mental toughness academic lifestyle behaviors had good fit to data. Furthermore, all of the regression weights in the hypothesized model were statistically significant and model' predictors accounted for 66% and 61% of the variance in inhibitory and facilitator behaviors, respectively. Therefore, the most important idea derived from the findings of the present study is how educational professionals interested in the field of gifted psychology studies can pursue concerns related to the motivational profile analysis of gifted learners by emphasizing the information power of the emerging positive psychology movement.
Gholam Reza Abbasi; jalil fathabadi; Omid Shokri; Majid Zargham Hajebi
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The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a positive psycho-educational program on coping styles and academic well-being in female students. In this quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest nonequivalent control-group design and followed by two months, 27 students in the experimental ...
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The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a positive psycho-educational program on coping styles and academic well-being in female students. In this quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest nonequivalent control-group design and followed by two months, 27 students in the experimental group and 25 students in the control group before and after positive psycho-educational training program, answered the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations-Short Form (CISS-SF), School Engagement Inventory (SEI) and the School Burnout Inventory (SBI). The experimental group received 7 two-hour sessions of positive psycho-educational training package. The results of simple mixed ANOVA indicated that in the short and long term, the psycho-educational package was effective in increasing the task-oriented coping style and school engagement and in decreasing dimensions of nonadaptive coping styles including emotion-coping style and avoidance coping style and school burnout. The results of the present study consistent with the results of other studies in the field of positive education, showed that psycho-educational positive intervention by strengthening learners' coping resources and equipping learners with psychological capital and mental strength was effective in creating skills based on psychological immunization of learners along with other traditional academic skills in them.
Omid Shokri; Pantea Mahdavian; Ali Khodaei
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The main purpose of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Farsi version of the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ, Endler & Parker, 2007) among male and female teachers. In this correlational study, 381 teachers completed the (PCQ) and Teacher Emotion Inventory ...
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The main purpose of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Farsi version of the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ, Endler & Parker, 2007) among male and female teachers. In this correlational study, 381 teachers completed the (PCQ) and Teacher Emotion Inventory (TEI, Chen, 2016). The confirmatory factor analysis and multi-group methods were used to compute the PCQ's factorial validity and its gender invariance, respectively. The results of confirmatory factor analysis based on AMOS software showed that the four factor model of PCQ (self-efficacy, resiliency, optimism and hope) fit well to the data across two groups. The results of multi-group confirmatory factor analysis revealed the cross-group invariance of factorial structure, factor loadings, and factor variances and covariances of the PCQ across teachers. Internal consistency coefficients for the four subscales were 0/87, 0/83, 0/86 & 0/70 respectively. In sum, these findings approved the validity and reliability of the PCQ to measure the psychological capital as a broad, compound and higher-order construct and has a buffering function against stressors in male and female teachers.
elham Kooshki; Omid Shokri; Saeed Ghanbari; Jalil Fathabadi
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The results of various studies show that mental health problems in learners have an undeniable role by weakening their psychological capital in explaining the cognitive, motivational and emotional dysfunction of learners. The meta-analysis method was used to determine the effectiveness of resilience ...
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The results of various studies show that mental health problems in learners have an undeniable role by weakening their psychological capital in explaining the cognitive, motivational and emotional dysfunction of learners. The meta-analysis method was used to determine the effectiveness of resilience intervention and the identification of multiple moderators in this study. Interventional efforts based on the Resilience Program were extracted from the databases and 22 research and 147 effect sizes were selected for the final analysis. Data were analyzed using CMA2 software. The results showed that the overall effect size regarding to effectiveness of the interventions based on the Resilience Program was 0.562. The results of analyzing moderator effects based on the type of dependent variable, subject type and culture on the effectiveness of Program showed that the effect size in the research included the positive dependent variable in comparison with the negative dependent variable. The effect of research on student sample compared with university students and, finally, the effect size of the research on collective culture was more than that of individualist cultural. In general, the results showed that although the Resilience Program basically emphasized the interpretive capacities of learners' cognitive assessments and the equipping of their coping resources, strategy an active encounter with challenging demands replaces exaggerated attempts and responses, but focuses on the explicit role of some moderators, such as of culture, the target community, and even the positive nature or negative expected predictions of the selected intervention model is also of particular importance.
Mohammad Sharifi; Jalil Fathabadi; Omid Shokri; Shahla Pakdaman
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of e-learning in comparison to face-to-face education in in different educational systems of Iran. The method of this research is meta-analysis and the statistical society includes articles with a scientific-research rank published in the ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of e-learning in comparison to face-to-face education in in different educational systems of Iran. The method of this research is meta-analysis and the statistical society includes articles with a scientific-research rank published in the national databases. In order to collect information, after a systematic review of the studies conducted on the basis of the criteria for entry, 45 studies were selected and the data were collected in a meta-analysis checklist. In order to analyze the data, sensitivity analysis, funnel, fixed and random models and heterogeneity analysis were used using CMA2 software.The results of data analysis showed that e-learning has a higher effectiveness than face-to-face training, so that after the removal of outlier data, and the combined effect size of 45 studies is equal to .483 According to Cohen's criterion, this amount represents an average effect size. Also, the results showed that in researches that the subjects of the research were students, the dependent variable was of skill type, and sampling method was randomized, the effectiveness of e-learning was greater. Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that e-learning can be a suitable alternative for face-to-face education.
Zahra sadat Mirhashemi rooteh; Omid Shokri
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This study examined the mediating effect of teacher emotions on the relationship between teachers’ perceived self-efficacy beliefs and interpersonal teacher behavior. In a sample consisting of 329 women teachers, the Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form (Schwarzer, Schmitz & Daytner, ...
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This study examined the mediating effect of teacher emotions on the relationship between teachers’ perceived self-efficacy beliefs and interpersonal teacher behavior. In a sample consisting of 329 women teachers, the Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form (Schwarzer, Schmitz & Daytner, 1999), the Teacher Emotion Inventory (TEI, Chen, 2016) and the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI, Lourdusamy & Khine, 2001) were administered. Structural equation modeling was used to assess the mediating effects of teacher emotions on the relationship between teachers’ perceived self-efficacy beliefs and interpersonal teacher behavior. Results showed that there is a positive significant correlation between teachers’ perceived self-efficacy beliefs with positive emotions and positive interpersonal teacher behavior and a negative significant correlation with negative emotions and negative interpersonal teacher behavior. Results also indicated that there is a negative significant correlation between positive emotions with negative interpersonal teacher behavior and a positive significant correlation whit positive interpersonal teacher behavior and there is a negative significant correlation between negative emotions with positive interpersonal teacher behavior and a negative significant correlation whit negative interpersonal teacher behavior. Results showed that the partially mediated model of teacher emotions on the relationship between teachers’ perceived self-efficacy beliefs and interpersonal teacher behavior had acceptable fit to data. In these hypothesized models, teachers’ perceived self-efficacy beliefs and teacher emotions accounted for 54% and 57% of the variance in positive and negative interpersonal teacher behavior, respectively. In sum, these finding show that the part of available variance in positive and negative interpersonal teacher behavior in the context of prediction by teachers' perceived self-efficacy beliefs, accounted for teacher emotions.
Omid Shokri; Mohammad Azad Abdullah Pour; Ali Taghvayi niya
Volume 6, Issue 1 , September 2018, , Pages 31-42
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The main purpose of the present study was investigating the psychometric properties of the Teacher Efficacy for Moral Education Scale (TEMES). In this correlation study, 200 teachers (100 male, 100 female) completed the TEMES and the Short Character Strength Measure (SCSM). The confirmatory factor analysis ...
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The main purpose of the present study was investigating the psychometric properties of the Teacher Efficacy for Moral Education Scale (TEMES). In this correlation study, 200 teachers (100 male, 100 female) completed the TEMES and the Short Character Strength Measure (SCSM). The confirmatory factor analysis method and internal consistency were used to compute the TEMES's factorial validity and reliability, respectively. Also, in order to examine the concurrent validity of the Teacher Efficacy for Moral Education Scale, we computed the correlation between different dimensions of TEMES and different character strengths. The results of confirmatory factor analysis, based on AMOS software, indicated that multidimensional structure of the TEMES that consist of teacher positivity and teacher instructional practices had acceptable fit with the data of Iranian teacher’s sample. The analyses of Correlation between different dimensions of TEMES and character strengths (wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance and transcendence) provided initial evidence for the TEMES concurrent validity. The Internal consistencies for the scales measuring teacher positivity and teacher instructional practices were 0/80 and 0/81, respectively. In sum, these findings provide evidence for the validity and reliability of the TEMES as an instrument for measuring the Iranian teachers’ personal self-efficacy for fostering moral character in the classroom.
Zahra gashtasebi; Omid Shokri; Jalil fathabadi; Masoud Sharifi
Volume 4, Issue 16 , May 2017, , Pages 23-38
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of attributional retraining program on students’ positive and negative achievement emotions and academic engagement. In this pretest-posttest nonequivalent-group design with follow up stage, 41 undergraduate students at Shahid Beheshti ...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of attributional retraining program on students’ positive and negative achievement emotions and academic engagement. In this pretest-posttest nonequivalent-group design with follow up stage, 41 undergraduate students at Shahid Beheshti University in experimental and control groups responded to the Academic Emotion Questionnaire-Revised (AEQ-R, Abdollahpour, 1394) and the Academic Engagement Inventory (AEI, Salmela-Aro & Upadaya, 2012). The experimental group received seven resilience training sessions (Two hours a session). The results of multivariate covariance analysis indicated that attributional retraining program was effective in increasing positive class-related, learning-related and test-related emotion scales and components of the academic engagement consisted on energy, dedication and absorption and in decreasing negative class-related, learning-related and test-related emotion scales in short term and long term. These findings suggest that attributional retraining program by increasing empowering interpretations, management of emotional experiences and enrichment of interpersonal relationships skills could result in mental immunization in university students when they exposure to stressful situations.
