The prediction of academic dishonesty based on academic engagement, achievement goals and implicit beliefs of intelligence in during pandemic Coronavirus
Volume 15, Issue 52, Winter 2021, Pages 33-45
Haniyeh Yavari, Afsaneh Lotfi Azimi
Abstract The purpose of this study was to prediction of academic dishonesty based on academic engagement, achievement goals and implicit beliefs of intelligence in during pandemic Coronavirus (Covid-19). The descriptive- correlation method was used. The statistical population consists of all female students high schools Tehran city in year academic 2019-2020. In this study, according to convenience sampling method, 200 female students by formula Plant of Tabachnick & Fidell (2007) were selected as samples and they were asked to fill in the academic dishonesty scale (ADS) of Witherspoon, Maldonado & Lacey (2010), schoolwork engagement inventory (SEI) of Salmela-Aro & Upadaya (2012), achievement goal questionnaire–revised (AGQ-R) of Elliot & Murayama (2008) and implicit theory of intelligence scale (ITIS) of Abd-El-Fattah & Yates (2006). The data were analyzed by tests of Pearson correlation and multivariate regression. Findings showed that there was significant correlation between academic engagement, achievement goals and implicit beliefs of intelligence with academic dishonesty (p < 0/01). Regression analyses also revealed that %64/3 of variance of academic dishonesty infidelity was explained by academic engagement, achievement goals and implicit beliefs of intelligence. This study confirmed the significant contribution of academic engagement, achievement goals and implicit beliefs of intelligence on academic dishonesty in students.
The effect of character strength on academic engagement and academic well-being with mediating use of character strength in students
Volume 14, Issue 50, Autumn 2020, Pages 79-96
amin taheri, abdo alzahra naami, azita amir fakhraei, askar atash afrooz
Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of character strengths on academic well-being and academic engagement with mediating of use of character strengths. For this purpose, 354 students were selected by multistage random sampling from twelve schools of Ghale Ganj city, that filled out the Values in Practice Questionnaire (Patterson & Seligman, 2004), School Well-being Questionnaire (Tian, Wang, and Hanbury, 2014), Academic engagement Questionnaire (Meng & Jin, 2016), and the use of Character Strength Questionnaire (Gavinji and Linley ,2007). The structural equation modeling and bootstrapping method was used to test the proposed model and relationship between paths. The results showed that some of direct paths of character strengths to academic engagement and well-being academic were significant but all of indirect paths of character strengths to academic well-being and academic engagement through the use of the character strength were positive and significant. Accordingly, schools should be creating opportunity that students can used of their strengths.
Key words: character strength, academic engagement, academic well-being
The Comparison of Academic Engagement, Academic Self-efficacy and Achievement Goals in Gifted girls and Boys
Volume 13, Issue 46, Autumn 2019, Pages 35-48
https://doi.org/10.22034/jiera.2019.165928.1769
Mohammad Reza Askari, Behnam Makvandi, abdolkazem neisi
Abstract The purpose of this study was to compare academic engagement, academic self-efficacy and achievement with academic performance in gifted second-degree high school students (males and females) in Ahwaz city. This research was a causal-comparative study. The sample included 300 gifted students (140 gifted males and 160 gifted females) who were selected by stratified random sampling. The required data were collected from three educational questionnaires namely Zarang Questionnaire (2011), Mauritius Academic Self-efficacy Questionnaire (2001), and Midgley Development Goals Questionnaire (1998). The collected data were analyzed using statistical methods such as multivariate analysis of variance and One-variable. The findings of the study showed that gifted boys had lower mean than gifted girls did in three components of cognitive, behavioral, and motivational involvement and the self-efficacy of gifted boys was lower than the gifted girls was. The goals of achievement in the components of the goals of mastery and advancement of gifted students were averagely low and showed a high average for the gifted boys in the avoidance goals.Significant differences were found between the gifted- female students and the gifted-male students in all variables. This difference was significant at the 0.001 level. As a result, based on the findings, the gifted-male students that needs educational attention and individual efforts.