Educational psychology and learning
Shahrooz Nemati; Shahram Vahedi; Rahim Badri gargari; Roufia Shams esfandabadi
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Objective: A high sense of belonging to the school and a low level of procrastination can protect against the risk of bullying and victimization. In this way, this research was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of the combined mindset change-motivational program on the sense of belonging to ...
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Objective: A high sense of belonging to the school and a low level of procrastination can protect against the risk of bullying and victimization. In this way, this research was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of the combined mindset change-motivational program on the sense of belonging to the school and academic procrastination of bullied female students.Methods: The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and a follow-up period with a control group. The research community was formed by female secondary school students in Isfahan in 2022. From the mentioned society, 30 students were selected purposefully and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. The pre-test was done through the Brew et al sense of belonging to school questionnaire (2004) and Solomon and Rothblum academic procrastination questionnaire (1984). The experimental group received 8 90-minute sessions of the combined mindset change-motivational program. Finally, the post-test and a three-month follow-up were implemented. Data analysis was done using variance analysis with repeated measurements.Results: There is a significant difference between the sense of belonging and academic procrastination in the two groups in the post-test and follow-up stages, that is, the integrated program of mindset change-motivational has been able to cause a lasting improvement in the sense of belonging and academic procrastination of the bully girl.Conclusion: Based on the results, this program can be used as an effective intervention to help bullied female students and improve their sense of belonging and academic procrastination.
Continuous education, educational management, educational technology and curriculum planning
siamand ghaderi; Firooz Mahmoodi; Yousef Adib; Ali Imanzadeh
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Objective: Social skills are developed through exposure to social environments and a part of the education process that is implicit and unteachable (hidden curriculum) available to learners. This study aimed to represent the formation process of social skills in primary school students with the focus ...
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Objective: Social skills are developed through exposure to social environments and a part of the education process that is implicit and unteachable (hidden curriculum) available to learners. This study aimed to represent the formation process of social skills in primary school students with the focus on hidden curriculum.
Methods: Therefore, a semi-structured interview was conducted using a qualitative method based on the Foundation's data theory, using a targeted sampling of 15 elementary school teachers in Mahabad city, until the theoretical saturation of the data. Data analysis was also done by continuous comparison method, through open, central and selective coding in the form of 9 general categories and 23 sub-categories under Max Kyuda version 2020 software. The data pattern of the foundation in this study was depicted through the graphic model (outputs of Max Kyuda).
Results: The final model in the form of contextual factors includes; family, school and peers, process factors including; interaction with the environment, skill learning, changing and modifying behavior and training methods and consequent factors; including desirable social skills and undesirable social skills were extracted and categorized based on the three elements of the Strauss and Corbin (2008) model.
Conclusion: The results showed that social skills in students is a multi-dimensional process that requires a comprehensive and multi-faceted look at the educational system in the form of open curricula with an emphasis on the hidden curriculum and its functions (structure of educational centers, social atmosphere and family).
Continuous education, educational management, educational technology and curriculum planning
samane yegane; mahboobeh arefi
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Objective: Paying attention to the social characteristics of students in the list of educational goals of the elementary school has always been taken into consideration during lesson design and planning, because the primary period, as a vital period, has a significant impact on the formal and implicit ...
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Objective: Paying attention to the social characteristics of students in the list of educational goals of the elementary school has always been taken into consideration during lesson design and planning, because the primary period, as a vital period, has a significant impact on the formal and implicit education of the social dimension of students in a cross-sectional and forward-looking manner. This study was conducted with the aim of analyzing the social characteristics of elementary school students from the perspective of teachers.Methods: The current research was conducted with qualitative methodological approach and qualitative content analysis research method, the data collection tool was a semi-structured in-depth interview. The participants of the research were selected in a targeted way in the academic year of 2022-2023 from among the primary school teachers of different cities in Iran, and data saturation was achieved with the number of 14 teachers. The qualitative content analysis of the data was done with the help of software.Results: The findings indicate the most important social characteristics of primary school students in six core codes and seventeen open codes, including the concept of others, understanding differences, responsibility, rights and duties, interactive skill and performance avoidance. The results show a decrease in the characteristics of responsibility, awareness of students' rights and interactive skills, and an increase in the characteristics of students' understanding of the concept of others, differences and performance aversion compared to the past.Conclusion: The findings of the present research confirmed the attention to the dimensions of responsibility, rights and duties, interactive skills and performance aversion in the development of students' social characteristics. The changes created in different dimensions of students' social characteristics should change and modify curriculum elements including teaching method and grouping of students and as a result, reform the curriculum implemented by primary school teachers.
Distance education, virtual education and e-learning
VALI MOHAMMAD DARINI; Roshanak Ardalani Farsa
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Objective: The present study was conducted with the aim of providing a strategic management model of virtual education based on the motivation of students' academic progress.Methods: This research is applied-developmental from the point of view of the goal and descriptive-survey from the point of view ...
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Objective: The present study was conducted with the aim of providing a strategic management model of virtual education based on the motivation of students' academic progress.Methods: This research is applied-developmental from the point of view of the goal and descriptive-survey from the point of view of the data collection method. Also, an exploratory mixed research design has been used. The community of qualitative part participants included theoretical (educational management professors) and experimental (Tehran University administrators). Sampling of the qualitative part was done with a targeted method and theoretical saturation was achieved with 17 interviews. In the quantitative part, the viewpoint of 393 students of Tehran University was used. The data collection tool is semi-structured interview, ISM and researcher-made questionnaire. Maxqda20 software was used in the qualitative part, MicMac software was used in the model presentation part, and Smart PLS 3 software was used in the model validation part. To identify the components of the research, the method of qualitative analysis of the theme was used, the structural-interpretive modeling method was used to identify the relationships between the structures, and the partial least squares method was used to validate the model.Conclusion: The results showed that the hardware, software and rules of virtual education affect the culturalization and development of strategic management of virtual education. Cultivation and development of strategic management of virtual education has an effect on the teaching-learning environment and leads to the effectiveness of strategic management of virtual education, students' participation and faculty empowerment.Results: the effectiveness of the strategic management of virtual education, the participation of students and the empowerment of professors become the motivation for students' academic progress.
سیاستگذاری، برنامه ریزی و مدیریت آموزشی
Leyla Mohammadi; Mohammad Mojtabazadeh
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Objective: The present study was conducted with the aim of structural analysis of personality traits, organizational commitment and job motivation with the mediating role of self-control in teachers and principals of elementary schools for girls.
Methods: This research, in terms of purpose, was applied; ...
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Objective: The present study was conducted with the aim of structural analysis of personality traits, organizational commitment and job motivation with the mediating role of self-control in teachers and principals of elementary schools for girls.
Methods: This research, in terms of purpose, was applied; In terms of data collection method, was descriptive, of the survey type; and in terms of the nature of the data, was quantitative. Statistical population, have been including all teachers and principals of elementary schools for girls in the academic year 2022-2023 to the number of 369 people. The sampling method was multi-method sampling. The sample size, according to Krejcie and Morgan table (1970), there were 225 people. The data collection tool, was HEXACO Traits Personality (2013), Allen and Mayer organizational commitment questionnaire (1990), Herzberg job motivation questionnaire (2004) and Tangney, Baumeister & Boone self-control questionnaire (2004). To analyze the data, in addition to descriptive statistical techniques, the following inferential statistics techniques were used Step by Step Regression and Structural Equation Modeling.
Findings: The research findings showed, relationship between personality traits, organizational commitment, job motivation and self-control of teachers and principals was positive and significant (P<0/01). Furthermore, the mediating role of self-control in the effect on personality traits, organizational commitment and job motivation of teachers and principals was confirmed.
Conclusion: It is concluded that, to improve the professional performance of teachers and school administrators; the institution of education must take steps in order to strengthen personality traits and setting the stage for an organizational commitment and job motivation; and also optimizing self-control.
Continuous education, educational management, educational technology and curriculum planning
katayoon Hamidizadeh; fatemeh Amirian
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Objective: This research has investigated the position of cultural capital components in elementary school textbooks.Metods: For this purpose, the method of content analysis has been used. The statistical population of the research included the content of all the textbooks of the second elementary school ...
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Objective: This research has investigated the position of cultural capital components in elementary school textbooks.Metods: For this purpose, the method of content analysis has been used. The statistical population of the research included the content of all the textbooks of the second elementary school in the academic year 2023-24, including the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, and from this population, Persian books, social studies, and heavenly gifts were selected as samples. The research tool includes the content analysis list of cultural capital components according to Bourdieu's theory, which was prepared before this research, and its validity was recalculated through content validity and its reliability through Scott's method with 91.20%. Descriptive statistics and Shannon's entropy method were used to analyze the data.Results: The findings show that among the components of cultural capital, which include objectified cultural capital, institutionalized cultural capital, and embodied cultural capital; Objectified cultural capital has the largest share with 1837 frequency and 54.25%, and the lowest is related to institutionalized cultural capital with 86 frequency and 2.53%. The embodied cultural capital also consists of 1463 abundance and 43.20%. Also, the lowest information load and the importance factor related to the institutionalized dimension are equal to 0.25 and 0.03, and the highest information load and the importance factor related to the embodied dimension are equal to 0.37 and 0.18.Conclusion: Therefore, it can be concluded that considering By allocating 33.73% of the content of the elementary course books to the components of cultural capital, the authors of the textbooks of this course have been able to use the capabilities of the textbooks to reflect the components of cultural capital.
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.
