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 consisted of students from 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 consisted of students from physical education colleges in Alborz province, from whom 412 questionnaires were collected using stratified random sampling. The descriptive research method selected and since the purpose of this research was to investigate the psychometric properties of the questionnaire, it falls under correlation designs. In order to collect data, the technology-based active learning questionnaire of Shroff et al. (2019) 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 questions had a significant relationship with the factors and were able to be a good predictor for their component. Additionally, 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 used to measure the functions of using technology in the field of active learning among students.
Farzin Haqnazari; Vahid Nejati; Hamidreza Pouretemad
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In this research, the effectiveness of goal-setting strategies training designed based on goal-setting theory in the grade goals and academic achievement of middle school students has been investigated. To achieve this aim, 79 seventh-grade male students were selected by random cluster sampling and assigned ...
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In this research, the effectiveness of goal-setting strategies training designed based on goal-setting theory in the grade goals and academic achievement of middle school students has been investigated. To achieve this aim, 79 seventh-grade male students were selected by random cluster sampling and assigned to experimental and control groups. The Goal-setting strategies training package was developed on the basis of goal-setting theory by researchers and presented during 7 sessions to students and the tasks were done by them. Final grades of the first and second semesters were used for evaluating academic achievement and the grade goals set by students for the first and second semesters were used for assessing grade goal setting. The findings showed that the academic achievement of the experimental group increased in comparison with the control group. Whereas the grade goals of the students of the experimental group did not change, their grade goal errors decreased significantly which indicate the improvement and increased accuracy of educational goal-setting of students. Goal-setting strategies training can enhance academic performance and the quality of goal-setting.
Zohre Athari; Kazem Barzegar Bafrooi; Maryam Zare
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One of challenges that students face with is academic procrastination. It means “delay in performing a task”. Since academic procrastination could affect various aspects of students' personal and social life, by identifying related factors, steps can be taken toward reducing or eliminating ...
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One of challenges that students face with is academic procrastination. It means “delay in performing a task”. Since academic procrastination could affect various aspects of students' personal and social life, by identifying related factors, steps can be taken toward reducing or eliminating it. This study aimed at determination the role of self- compassion on academic procrastination by mediating role of experimental avoidance in students of Yazd University. The research design was descriptive-correlational. The participants of this study were 375 (208 girls and 167 boys) undergraduate students of Yazd University in the academic year 2018-19, that were selected on the basis of random cluster sampling. Data were collected by academic procrastination questionnaire (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984), self-compassion questionnaire (Neff, 2003) and acceptance and practice questionnaire (Bond and et al, 2011). Data analysis was performed by using correlation method based on structural equation modeling approach using AMOS software version 24. The results showed that compassion predicts directly, negatively and significantly, experiential avoidance (β = -0.69) and academic procrastination (β = -0.33). Experiential avoidance also directly, positively, and significantly predicts academic procrastination (β = 0.24). Finally, the results showed that experiential avoidance plays a mediating role in the relationship between self-compassion and academic procrastination. Therefore, it can be concluded that by increasing self-compassion and psychology flexibility (reducing experiential avoidance) students' academic procrastination can be to some extent reduced.
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.
bahman zandi; Marjan Masomifard
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The aim of this study is to investigate the priorities of lifelong learning in the context of current era Literacies (informational, research, educational, media, Computer, environmental, health, emotional, cultural, and financial).This research is descriptive and analytical in terms of its purpose, ...
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The aim of this study is to investigate the priorities of lifelong learning in the context of current era Literacies (informational, research, educational, media, Computer, environmental, health, emotional, cultural, and financial).This research is descriptive and analytical in terms of its purpose, and was implemented in a mixed way (interview and scrolling).The statistical population included all faculty members of Payam-e-Noor University and e-learning students of this university in the academic year of 96-97. 372 students and 86 faculty members were selected by stratified random sampling. In the first step, after studying the literature and background and conducting a semi-structured interview with the experts of the educational system, the literacies of the current era were extracted, and then in the second step, two special checklists for the Faculty members and students were distributed. The results of Friedman's test showed that both faculty members and students have selected information literacy as their first priority, then health literacy was ranked second, students selected emotional literacy as the third grade, while Faculty members' financial literacy was ranked third. Both faculty members and students chose media literacy as the fourth grade. Also, the results of independent t-test for comparing the study subjects showed that from the view point of faculty members the financial, computer, research and educational Literacies are significantly more important while from students' viewpoint environmental, and emotional Literacies are significantly more important. Also for other Literacies, we did not find any difference. In the end, a conceptual model was proposed to prioritize the literacies from the viewpoint of students and faculty members.
Salar Faramarzi; Reza Moradi; Shima ghalamzan
Volume 4, Issue 15 , January 2017, , Pages 9-14
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The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of phoneme plays on the dysorthographia of third-grade primary school male students with learning disabilities. The research method was experimental with pretest-posttest and the control group. The population of the research ...
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The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of phoneme plays on the dysorthographia of third-grade primary school male students with learning disabilities. The research method was experimental with pretest-posttest and the control group. The population of the research included male students with disability to learn spelling in the third-grade primary schools in Isfahan. To do the research, 30 students with disability to learn spelling were selected among the population of third-grade primary school students in the City of Isfahan who had inclusion criteria with stratified random sampling and then, they were randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. Instruments for collecting data were the spelling test and Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices Test for Children. The obtained data were analyzed with ANCOVA. The results of the research indicated that there is a significant difference between dysorthographia of the control and experimental groups at the level p<0.001. Therefore, it can be concluded that phoneme plays are effective on the improvement of students’ dysorthographia and it can be used as an educational and therapeutic method.
Elaheh Hejazi; Vahideh Namdari; majid Ghasemi; Ali Moghadamzadeh
Volume 4, Issue 15 , January 2017, , Pages 65-78
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The aim of this study was construction and validation of the scale Amount and attitudes toward the use of social networks and it's relation with academic performance. To do so, 350 students (187 girls and 163 boys) of third-grade high school students, in region 5 of Tehran, were selected through stratified ...
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The aim of this study was construction and validation of the scale Amount and attitudes toward the use of social networks and it's relation with academic performance. To do so, 350 students (187 girls and 163 boys) of third-grade high school students, in region 5 of Tehran, were selected through stratified random sampling that responded to researcher-made questionnaire of using social networks. Data obtained by exploratory factor analysis with principal components and varimax rotation, Cronbach's Alpha and Pearson correlation, multiple regression and analysis of variance were used. On stage construction of the scale, after confirming the validity, content validity, exploratory analysis with principal components and varimax rotation the ultimate tool 30 questions that lead to the extraction of two factors: attitude to the use of social networks, and the use of social networks. Scale reliability through Cronbach alpha coefficient for the subscales attitude towards using social networks 81/0 and for the use of social networks 88/0 and 91/0 were obtained for the total scale. Academic performance was considered as a method for the convergent validity. The regression's results showed that the amount of utilizing the social networks could predict 0/18 of the variance of academic performance. The results showed that the scale of the use of social networks has Favorable reliability and validity, and the amount of and attitudes toward the use of such networks performance plays a decisive role on students' academic.
