hosein zare; sozan arezi
Volume 2, Issue 6 , November 2014, Pages 7-16
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For years, the conventional approach continues to provide the theoretical courses and both teacher and student performance and woozy effect are unsatisfied. Participa-tory training methods, such as jigsaw technique can be effective in learning quality improvement. Based on this study, the effect of teaching ...
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For years, the conventional approach continues to provide the theoretical courses and both teacher and student performance and woozy effect are unsatisfied. Participa-tory training methods, such as jigsaw technique can be effective in learning quality improvement. Based on this study, the effect of teaching method of puzzle on learning of boys elementary students in sixth grade was done. Quasi - experimental method with pre-test and post - test control group, respectively. The population consisted of all students in the sixth grade boy was 93-92 in Kermanshah. Multi - stage cluster random sampling was conducted and two ckass as research sample of 50 subjects and courses in science, social studies, and writing with heavenly gifts jigsaw technique was taught to the group. Statistical analysis to determine differences between pre - test and post - test scores and calculated the experimental and control groups Mankva test was used. Covariance analysis showed that the effectiveness of teaching methods puzzles on learning elementary sixth grade students is significant. In other words, puzzles, teaching methods has had an effect on student learning.
mohsen zargham; seid mohammad shobeiri; mohammad reza sarmadi
Volume 2, Issue 6 , November 2014, Pages 17-28
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The main purpose of this research is to study explaining factors of students' tendency to use learning technology by cell phone in environmental education by students of public universities of Tehran. The population of the survey study was the bachelor, M.Sc. and Ph.D. students of public universities ...
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The main purpose of this research is to study explaining factors of students' tendency to use learning technology by cell phone in environmental education by students of public universities of Tehran. The population of the survey study was the bachelor, M.Sc. and Ph.D. students of public universities in Tehran (N=142800). Using Cochran's formula, a statistical sample of 400 students was selected by applying stratified cluster random sampling technique from Tehran, Tarbiat Modares, Shahid Beheshti, Science & Technology, Amirkabir, and Motahari universities. Questionnaire was the main instrument to collect data. The reliability of the questionnaire as assessed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient, was more than 0.70 for different parts of the measure. The results of exploratory factor analysis showed that five factors including perceived ease of use, subjective norms, self-efficacy, attitude, and perceived usefulness explained 43.93 percent of total variance. The results also showed that there were positive and significant relationships between perceived ease of use, subjective norms, self - efficacy, attitude, and perceived usefulness and the students' tendency to use cell phone in environmental education.
mona ghoreishi; siamak samani
Volume 2, Issue 6 , November 2014, Pages 29-40
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The purpose of the study was to explain the difference between motivational beliefs of high-school girl and boy students in different family types based on family process and content model. The research method was descriptive. For this reason multistage cluster sampling was selected between second and ...
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The purpose of the study was to explain the difference between motivational beliefs of high-school girl and boy students in different family types based on family process and content model. The research method was descriptive. For this reason multistage cluster sampling was selected between second and third of 308 (186 female, 122 male) high-school students in Shiraz in the academic year 91-90. The sample in this study was the selection process so that each of the four main areas of Shiraz, two high school (a girls' school, a boys high school) and then randomly selected from each school individually selected and all students in a class, the class selected fields were evaluated. The information was collected from self - report family process scale and self - report family content scale (children form) and motivated strategies for learning questionnaire were used that their validity and reliability has been confirmed. The data were described quantitatively using SPSS software to analyze the data, used from t - test & ANOVA& MANOVA for examining the questions of this research. The findings of the research showed significant differences between students in different family types on self-efficacy and intrinsic. The difference of self-efficacy and intrinsic were between of healthy family and unhealthy family, while there was no significant difference in different family types on test anxiety. The gender difference was not significant in any of the components of motivational beliefs. And is recommended to school psychologists and counselors that this issue should be considered in consultation with the student.
hadi taghizadeh; mohammad saeid abdekhodaei; hosein kareshki
Volume 2, Issue 6 , November 2014, Pages 41-58
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This research aims at studying the roles of cognitive styles, advancement goals, and mathematics self efficiency in the students' advancements in mathematics. The partici-pants of the research are 263 first grade high school students in Tabatkan district which were selected using the two stage cluster ...
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This research aims at studying the roles of cognitive styles, advancement goals, and mathematics self efficiency in the students' advancements in mathematics. The partici-pants of the research are 263 first grade high school students in Tabatkan district which were selected using the two stage cluster sampling method. The students received a questionnaire for the two cognitive styles of field dependence and field independence, Midglay et al (1998) questionnaire of goal direction, and themathematicsselfefficiencyquestionnaire. Thecollecteddatefromthesequestionnaires were analyzed using Pearson's correlation method, T score and multi level regression formula. The results showed that there is a positiveandsignificantrelationship between cognitive styles, advancement goals, mathematicsselfefficiencyandmathematics advancement. Also it was revealed that self efficiency has a higher role in predicting mathematics advancement. The results also suggest that field independent students showed more mathematics self efficiency. Additionally they had high scores in mastering goals. On the other hand field dependent students had high scores in avoidance goal. Moreover the study shows that there is a significant relationship between mastering goals and mathematic self efficiency. Also there is a direct and significant relationship between the rate of self efficiency and the score of orientation goal. There is a significant indirect relationship between the rate of self efficiency and avoidance goal score. Finally the study shows that the students' performance in mathematics can be directly predicted through cognitive styles, advancement goals and mathematics self efficiency. However in step by step regression analysis it was revealed that the role of the beliefs of mathematics self efficiency is superior to the roles of the advancement goals and cognitive styles.
ali abdi
Volume 2, Issue 6 , November 2014, Pages 59-70
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The purpose of this study was to investigate The Effect of the learning cycle model based on exploratoy learning method on Grade four Students’ Achievement and Attitudes Towards Science Course. This research was a quasi - experimental study with non - equivalent groups, which includes pre and post ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate The Effect of the learning cycle model based on exploratoy learning method on Grade four Students’ Achievement and Attitudes Towards Science Course. This research was a quasi - experimental study with non - equivalent groups, which includes pre and post - test design with the control group. A total of 34 fourth grade students from two different classes (Experimental N=19 and Control N=15( was involved in the study of Kermanshah city. they were selected through multi - stage clustered sampling. The group which was assigned as experimental group was instructed through learning cycle model whereas the other group was traditionally instructed. This experimental study lasted seven weeks. To determine the effectiveness of learning cycle model over traditional instruction, an achievement test about sciences which consisted of 20 items was administered as pre-test and post - test to students both in the experimental and control groups. too an attitude scale toward sciences developed by Akpınar et al (2009), was applied. For the statistical analysis, Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used. The results showed that students who were instructed through learning cycle model were achieved higher score than the ones which were instructed through the traditional method. There was also a The findings in this study showed that students in the experimental group developed more positive attitude towards science after the treatment.
Toraj Hashemi Nosrat Abad; Shahram Vahedi; Javad Amani Saribagloo
Volume 2, Issue 6 , November 2014, Pages 71-80
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The aim of current research was to investigate the relationship between school culture, basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relation) and academic performance in a form of causal model. For this research, 420 fourth grade male students in a high school in Urmia city were selected by using ...
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The aim of current research was to investigate the relationship between school culture, basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relation) and academic performance in a form of causal model. For this research, 420 fourth grade male students in a high school in Urmia city were selected by using cluster sampling method. They answered to school culture and basic psychological needs questionnaires. Path analysis was used for data analysis. The findings revealed that tested model had sufficient fit and predicted 24% of changes of academic performance, 11% need for autonomy, 5% need for competence and 7% of variance of need for relation. Need for autonomy had positive and significant effect on academic performance. The effect of need for competence on academic performance was positive and significant. Also, need for relation had positive and significant effect on academic performance. The effect of school culture on need for autonomy, competence and relation was positive and significant. In general, research findings showed that both individual (e.g. basic psychological needs) and contextual variables (e.g. school culture) have important roles in prediction of students' academic performance.
Shekofeh ShariatPanah; Ali Mashhadi
Volume 2, Issue 6 , November 2014, Pages 81-90
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The purpose of the present research was studying the role of implicit intelligence theories in students’ educational improve-ment. The research method was correlation and the statistical population was all female students in special high schools (state exemplary school and Shahed) in Mashhad city on ...
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The purpose of the present research was studying the role of implicit intelligence theories in students’ educational improve-ment. The research method was correlation and the statistical population was all female students in special high schools (state exemplary school and Shahed) in Mashhad city on academic year of 2013-2014; that 332 of them were selected by using multi-stage cluster sampling method. The used tool was implicit theories of intelligence scale (ITIS) that its reliability and validity had been confirmed. The average mark of students was regarded as mark of academic improvement. Data was analyzed by using descriptive statistic, correlation coefficient of Pearson and multiple- regression method. The results are: 1- there were negative and significant correlation between intelligence intrinsic theory and the students’ educational improvement (r=-0.56, p
