Appropriate teaching methods
Fateme alsadat Ahmadi hoseinian nejad; Masoumeh Shariat Kiaei
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Objextive:The present study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the effect of critical thinking training on cognitive flexibility, academic vitality and academic self-concept in female high school students of the first year.Methods: The current research was practical in terms of its purpose and ...
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Objextive:The present study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the effect of critical thinking training on cognitive flexibility, academic vitality and academic self-concept in female high school students of the first year.Methods: The current research was practical in terms of its purpose and semi-experimental in terms of collection method with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of this research was the female students of the first secondary school in the 5th district of Tehran in the academic year 2023-2024 and the sample size included 30 students (15 in the experimental group and 15 in the control group) and the available sampling method was used. became. In order to collect data, cognitive flexibility questionnaires of Dennis and Vanderwaal (2010), academic vitality of Martin and Marsh (2008) and academic self-concept of Yasen Chen (2004) were used, and the educational content of critical thinking was based on the views of Myers (1986) and Fisher and Hypel (1984) was prepared and given to the experimental group in 8 one-and-a-half-hour (90-minute) training sessions. The method of data analysis was multivariate covariance analysis.Results: Based on the findings of this research, there is a significant difference at the 0.01 level between the average scores of the subjects of the experimental and control groups in the post-test stage in the variables of cognitive flexibility, academic vitality and academic self-concept.Conclusion: Therefore, it can be said that critical thinking training can be a method to increase cognitive structures such as cognitive flexibility, and motivational factors such as academic vitality and academic self-concept.
hajar alsadat ghasemi; soghra ebrahimi ghavam; fariborz dortaj; . Noor Ali farrokhi
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this study was done to determine the effectiveness of executive function based parenting education program on cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control of preschool children. The research was a quasi–experimental study with a pretest–posttest–follow–up and a control group design. ...
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this study was done to determine the effectiveness of executive function based parenting education program on cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control of preschool children. The research was a quasi–experimental study with a pretest–posttest–follow–up and a control group design. The statistical population consisted of approximately 8400 mothers with sons aged 4-6 years who had registered their children in the preschool centers of one of the twenty-two districts of Tehran in the academic year of 2021-2022. Cluster Multi-stage sampling was done and according to the entry and exit criteria of the study, 32 people were selected and randomly divided into two experimental and control groups of 16. To collect data, The Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ) (Robinson et al., 1995) and the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function Preschool Version (BRIEF-P)(Gioia et al., 2003) were used. The executive function based parenting package(Ghasemi et al., 1401) for the experimental group was implemented in eight 70-minute sessions. The obtained data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, as well as inferential statistics, such as repeated–measures Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Bonferroni post–hoc test using SPSS18. The results showed that there is a significant difference between the average score of the child's cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control in the pre-test stage with the post-test (p<0.01) and the pre-test stage with the follow-up (p<0.01). Also, the results of the Benferroni test for grades in three stages of measurement showed that there is stability in the results. Therefore, if parents are exposed to this parenting intervention, it is expected that their children's cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control will improve.
Seyedeh Zahra Ferdowsi; Mojgan Sepah Mansoor; afsaneh ghanbary panah
Volume 16, Issue 56 , April 2022, , Pages 76-90
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of mediating social support, perception, and self-perception in relation to beliefs, intelligence, and cognitive flexibility with academic performance. The research method was descriptive-correlation in the form of structural equation modeling. ...
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of mediating social support, perception, and self-perception in relation to beliefs, intelligence, and cognitive flexibility with academic performance. The research method was descriptive-correlation in the form of structural equation modeling. The statistical population was all male and female students in the ninth grade of the first year of high school in Tehran in the academic year of 1997-98. 450 students were selected as a sample using multi-stage cluster random sampling method. The research instruments included the Dortaj (2004) Academic Performance Questionnaire, Abdel Fattah Hawitz (ITIS), Cognitive Flexibility (CFI), Deniso & Wonderwell (2010), Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), Zimento et al. Research data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The findings indicated that perceived support did not play a mediating role in the relationship between intelligence variables and academic performance. Also, the relationship between intelligence beliefs and academic performance with the mediating role of self-perception showed that the indirect effect is not significant. Another finding on the mediating role of support and perception in the relationship between cognitive flexibility and performance showed that the relationship between variables has an indirect and significant effect, but self-perception is not able to play a mediating role in the relationship between cognitive flexibility and performance. It can be concluded that in this age group (ninth grade), cognitive flexibility directly and indirectly affects academic performance through perceived social support. The research findings are useful for education policy makers.
