abbas abbaspour; mohsen shakerihoseinabad; hamid rahimian; maghsood farasatkhah
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The purpose of this study was to investigate experts' perceptions and attitudes towards various aspects of public universities accountability in Tehran city. This study used an exploratory mixed methods approach involving 309 faculty members, experts and PhD students in 2015. The main purpose of the ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate experts' perceptions and attitudes towards various aspects of public universities accountability in Tehran city. This study used an exploratory mixed methods approach involving 309 faculty members, experts and PhD students in 2015. The main purpose of the qualitative phase was to develop a background for a questionnaire and provisional model to be used in the quantitative phase. Structural equation modeling analysis during the quantitative phase provided a model that shows the relationships of different factors regarding effective accountability. The result of study provided exploratory model to describe the relationship between casual conditions of balanced accountability to the needs of the stakeholders, accountability strategies, context and environmental aspect of Public universities, and outcomes of it.
Nahid Shirani Bidabadi; Ahmad Reza Nasr isfahani; Ebrahim Mirshah Jafari; Ahmad Abedi
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This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of practical math education in preschool on math competency and learning behaviors of children. The research method was quasi-experimental. Sixty preschool children (female) were selected using the accessible sampling method. The children ...
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This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of practical math education in preschool on math competency and learning behaviors of children. The research method was quasi-experimental. Sixty preschool children (female) were selected using the accessible sampling method. The children were randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. At first, the mathematical competence test was given to both groups. While the control group received a typical preschool education based on the usual textbooks and worksheets, the practical instruction was used in the experimental group. The learning program was performed over a period of six months. After completing the educational program, both groups were tested. Results demonstrated a significant difference between the two groups in math competency. The study of learning activities during education showed that the program was effective in the type of activity, verbal behaviors, and engagement of children. And it has the greatest impact on the type of activity.
elham soleimani; Ali Akbar Amin biedokhti; mahmood najafi; MORTEZA KARAMI
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The purpose of this study was to provide a model for transferring learning to the workplace, based on a qualitative study design, we used a foundation-based approach to data theory. There was selected 30 managers, faculty members, employees, experts and human resources to be interviewed at the Ferdowsi ...
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The purpose of this study was to provide a model for transferring learning to the workplace, based on a qualitative study design, we used a foundation-based approach to data theory. There was selected 30 managers, faculty members, employees, experts and human resources to be interviewed at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Sampling done by following a theoretical one and the interviewees was selected by mean of snow ball technique. After deriving main themes and concepts from the written-facet interviews, researchers did analysis them by a mixed micro analyses. It was a combination of open and axial coding. The derived main themes categorized: individual factors, educational factors, organizational factors. The conditions for the transfer of learning: the conditions of the transfer, management factors and financial power of the organization. Interventional conditions include: trans-organization factors; strategic factors including: structural strategies, process strategies, and environmental strategies. The consequences of learning transfer were identified at both levels of individual and organizational
shima vafa; nasrin bagheri; mina mojtabaei; Khadijeh Abolmaali Alhosseini
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The aim of this study is to present a structural sample to forecast school anxiety according to a perception of the classroom environment with the mediation of coping styles in students. The research method is descriptive- correlational. The statistical society under study consists of all female students ...
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The aim of this study is to present a structural sample to forecast school anxiety according to a perception of the classroom environment with the mediation of coping styles in students. The research method is descriptive- correlational. The statistical society under study consists of all female students in second grade of high school at public schools in Tehran who were educating in 1395-96 educational year. Multistage Cluster Sampling method has been used in this study. This sample includes 480 female students in second grade of high school in Tehran. These students answered the Perception of Classroom Environment made by Fraser, Fisher and McRobie’s questionnaire (1996), Coping Styles of Andler and Parker (1990) questionnaire, school anxiety questionnaire by Abolma’ali & et al (1994). To analyze data and answer the study questions, structural equations modeling method was used which was studied to examine the casual relationship among latent variables. The results revealed that all of the seven components of perception of class environment (correlation, teacher support, class involvement, research, task orientation, cooperation, equanimity) with all of the four components of school anxiety (exam stress, fearing self-assertion and physiological reaction) were negatively correlated in 0.01 level. Also, a problem-focused style, negatively, and avoidance coping style and emotional coping style, positively, correlated with all of the four components of school anxiety at 0.01 level. Likewise, the results indicate that perception of classroom environment forecasts academic anxiety in female students with the mediation of coping styles.
farah abasian; masood sadeghi; ezatollah ghadampour
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Student's maladaptive behaviors are behaviors that are not compatible with the views of parents, schoolchildren, community, and school. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of self-regulation strategies training on academic self-efficacy and educational adaptability of maladaptive ...
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Student's maladaptive behaviors are behaviors that are not compatible with the views of parents, schoolchildren, community, and school. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of self-regulation strategies training on academic self-efficacy and educational adaptability of maladaptive female students in second-grade high school in Kerman. This research is applied in terms of its purpose and in terms of how to collect experimental data such as quasi-experimental, pseudo-test, post-test, and control group. The statistical population of this study includes maladaptive female students in Secondary Schools in District 2 of Kerman. The research sample was 30 maladaptive students who were identified by incompatible high school students' compatibility test and then divided randomly into two experimental and control groups (each group of 15). They were the experimental group received 8 sessions of 90 minutes’ self-regulation strategies and the control group did not receive any training during this period. Data were analyzed using statistical methods such as mean, standard deviation and covariance analysis. The results showed that self-regulation strategies training had a significant effect on academic self-efficacy and academic adjustment of maladaptive students at the level of P <0.01. Self-regulation training to use cognitive strategies and meta-cognitive strategy is presented to maladaptive students, in order to lessen the academic inconsistency and academic self-efficacy of such students.
Ali Sheykholeslami; Ghaffar Karimianpoor; Arefeh Kiani
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The purpose of this study was to the prediction of entrepreneurial intention university students based on psychological capital and career adaptability. The method of this study is correlational. The statistical population of this study comprised all of Mohaghegh Ardebili university student in 2018 academic ...
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The purpose of this study was to the prediction of entrepreneurial intention university students based on psychological capital and career adaptability. The method of this study is correlational. The statistical population of this study comprised all of Mohaghegh Ardebili university student in 2018 academic year, that among this population, by using cluster random sampling, 243 samples were select. For data collection luthans, youssef, avolio psychological capital questionnaire, savickas career path adaptability questionnaire and liñán, rodríguez, rueda-cantuche entrepreneurial intention questionnaire were used. Data were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and regression analysis. The result showed that there exists a significant positive relationship between psychological capital and its components (self-efficiency, hope, optimism, resiliency) and career adaptability and its components (concern, control, curiosity, confidence) with entrepreneurial intention. Also, the results of the regression analysis revealed that the %20 of the variance of entrepreneurial intention can be explained by psychological capital and career adaptability. Therefore, it can be concluded that the psychological capital and career adaptability may be taken into account as one of the important factors leading entrepreneurial intention, which requires planning and attention.
behboud mohammadzadeh; Alireza Bafandeh Zendeh
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This article is intended to identify the causes of the trainee’s reduction in private vocational and technical institutes. According to the purpose, an exploratory mixed research method was selected as the appropriate method of research. The research method consists of two qualitative and quantitative ...
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This article is intended to identify the causes of the trainee’s reduction in private vocational and technical institutes. According to the purpose, an exploratory mixed research method was selected as the appropriate method of research. The research method consists of two qualitative and quantitative steps. In the qualitative stage, the data were collected using thematic analysis and conducting targeted and in-depth interviews with 20 experts in technical and vocational education. Then, with the initial coding and the definition of the main and sub-themes, Factors affecting the reduction of trainees in private technical and vocational institutes were identified. In the quantitative stage, a questionnaire was set up based on the results of the first stage interviews. The statistical sample at this stage was 270 managers and founders of private technical and vocational institutes in East Azarbaijan province. Data was collected through a questionnaire categorized using exploratory factor analysis. That way, the effective factors on the reduction of trainees were re-identified. The results of exploratory factor analysis were in line with the results of Thematic Analysis. The results of both qualitative and quantitative methods indicate that institute factors (physical resources, human and finance resources, educational programs and educational marketing), organizational factors (content, policy, support, evaluation) and environmental factors (competitors, labor market, community culture, laws and government policies) are three major factors affecting the reduction of trainees in private technical and vocational institutes.
Behzad Nezakatgoo; Jalil Fathi
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Web-based tools and applications that have the potential to increase motivation and interaction among learners have attracted a lot of attention in the English language learning community. One of the newest web-based technologies used for educational purposes is Moodle, a virtual learning environment ...
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Web-based tools and applications that have the potential to increase motivation and interaction among learners have attracted a lot of attention in the English language learning community. One of the newest web-based technologies used for educational purposes is Moodle, a virtual learning environment with open source. Considering the importance of technology in general and the rarity of studies on the use of Moodle in Second Language Education, this paper examines the impact of second language teaching with the help of Moodle on the ability to understand Iranian learners. For this purpose, in this study, a sample of 46 students of the English language school in one of the Islamic Azad University units in Iran was used as research subjects. In line with the purpose of the research, the students of the experimental group (25) received a combination of learning, in which the Moodle was added to in-class education, while the control group students (21) trained only in the same traditional method of in-class education. This study was conducted over a semester for 16 weeks. Statistical analysis of the data indicated that the comprehension function of the experimental group at the end of the period was better than the control group. These findings could have remarkable theoretical implications for teaching English as a second language.
maryam hosseyni
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Academic burnout creates feelings of helplessness, irritability, and disappointment in students, which subsequently dwindles away their motivation, performance and academic achievement. Therefore, it is very important to identify the contributing factors to students’ academic burnout in order to ...
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Academic burnout creates feelings of helplessness, irritability, and disappointment in students, which subsequently dwindles away their motivation, performance and academic achievement. Therefore, it is very important to identify the contributing factors to students’ academic burnout in order to provide strategies and solutions for reducing them. The objective of this study is to investigate the factors affecting academic burnout among students of state-run universities in Iran’s higher education system. In this study, the qualitative method of content analysis was used. The population of the study was comprised of two main groups (students and professors) of the state universities of Iran in 2017, which were identified by the snowball sampling method. After two semi-structured group interviews with students (21 persons) and professors (10 people) and 6 individual interviews with professors and 14 individual interviews with students of the country's higher education system, including 31 provinces in 1396, data saturation achieved. Obtained data were coded and classified by using conventional content analysis. The results of the research showed that the main components of the conceptual model of the contributing factors on academic burnout of the students are: inefficiency of education, cultural factors, scientific fraud, education economics, family problems, academic and behavioral weaknesses of faculty, infrastructure problems were supportive-motivational factors and personality traits. The findings of this study provide good results for helping policymakers, planners and educators of Iran's higher education system to reduce academic burnout among students.
hadi kazerouni shamiri; Saeid Moradi
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of virtual education and information technology governance in the managers of the Islamic Azad University of Khuzestan. The present study was a descriptive-correlational study in terms of applied research. The statistical population of the present ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of virtual education and information technology governance in the managers of the Islamic Azad University of Khuzestan. The present study was a descriptive-correlational study in terms of applied research. The statistical population of the present study consisted of directors and deputy directors of the Islamic Azad University of Khuzestan province. 185 directors and deputy directors of Islamic Azad University of northern Khuzestan province (Islamic Azad University of Dezful, Shoosh, and Andimeshk) were randomly selected using a stratified random sampling method. They were selected as the statistical sample of the study. The data gathering tool was Zahirikhah's virtual education questionnaire (2014), Dinardwendik information management governance questionnaire (2013), and voluntarily volunteer questionnaire (2012). The validity of the questionnaires was verified using face validity. Data were analyzed by SPSS software (Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression). The results of this study showed that Virtual education and IT governance have a positive and significant effect on the merits of managers of Islamic Azad universities in the north of Khuzestan province (Dezful, Andimeshk and Shoosh universities). Virtual training has a positive and significant relationship with meritocracy. The governance of information technology has a positive and meaningful relationship with meritocracy.
