New technologies and school learning
Hossein Poursoltani Zarandi
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The aim of this research was the psychometric characteristics of the questionnaire of students' perception of technology-based active learning in physical education colleges of Alborz province. The statistical population of this research was made up of students of physical education colleges in Alborz ...
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The aim of this research was the psychometric characteristics of the questionnaire of students' perception of technology-based active learning in physical education colleges of Alborz province. The statistical population of this research was made up of students of physical education colleges in Alborz province, from whom 412 questionnaires were collected using stratified random sampling. In order to collect data, the technology-based active learning questionnaire of Shroff et al. (2019) was used, which consists of 20 questions and has the components of interactive participation, problem solving skills, interest and feedback. In order to analyze the data, descriptive indices and Cronbach's and Raykov's alpha coefficient statistical tests were used to determine internal consistency and exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were used to determine construct validity in SPSS.21, LISREL 8.8 and Stata.17 statistical software. The results showed that the reliability of the technology-based active learning questionnaire is (0.968). Regarding construct validity and based on the degree of relationships and significance level, all the questions had a significant relationship with the factors and were able to be a good predictor for their component. Also, regarding the relationships of the components with the concept of technology-based active learning, the results showed that all four components could be a good predictor for the concept of technology-based active learning, and as a result, it can be used to measure the functions of using technology in the field of active learning among students.
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.
