K. Beshlideh; Gh Maktabi; M. Taghi Pour; H. Shokrkon
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The present study was designed to investigate factors that attract students to praying. The statistical population of this study consisted of all day students attending junior high school. The sample included 1062 subjects from both sexes, who were selected by a random multistage sampling method. The ...
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The present study was designed to investigate factors that attract students to praying. The statistical population of this study consisted of all day students attending junior high school. The sample included 1062 subjects from both sexes, who were selected by a random multistage sampling method. The instruments used in the study were as follows: 1) Preliminary questionnaire about attractive factors with 70 items; 2) The main questionnaire made through factor analysis for the whole sample (31 items); 3) Two specific questionnaires for male and female students, with 38 items and 52 items, respectively. The results obtained from factor analysis for the whole sample revealed two strong factors; one factor with 18 items mostly related to incentive issues and the other factor with 13 items was seen to be attributable to humane relationship with students. The results obtained from discriminant analysis showed that three factors can be extracted for both genders separately. The internal consistency by Cronbach’s Alfa coefficient for the general, male and female questionnaires were 90%, 90% and 89%, respectively. To evaluate the hypotheses, some statistical methods such as t-test, one-way analysis of variance and the Scheffe test were applied. Analysis indicated that there was significant difference between sexes in GQ (P <0.028) and the difference favored female subjects. Another comparsion for SES groups revealed that the students of middle SES obtained significantly higher scores than low and high SES students. Finally a comparsion among three academic grades showed no significant difference in school performance.
M. Shehni Yailagh; J. Karami; H. Shokrkon; M. Mehrabizadeh Honarmand
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Dysgraphia is a term used to describe children who have specific difficulties in perception or production of written language. In order for this diagnosis to be made, an individual is assumed to display writing skills substantially below those expected, given the person’s chronological age, measured ...
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Dysgraphia is a term used to describe children who have specific difficulties in perception or production of written language. In order for this diagnosis to be made, an individual is assumed to display writing skills substantially below those expected, given the person’s chronological age, measured intelligence, and appropriate education. This disoder does not include those students who have learning difficulties because of visual, hearing or physical disabilities, mental retardation or poor environmental, social or economical conditions. Two goals were pursued in this study: investigating the prevalence of dysgraphia in primary schools of Ahvaz, and the effects of multi- sense therapy on reduction of writing difficulties. The experimental- control, with pretest- posttest design, was used in this study. The prevalence sample size was 4000 students (2000 boys and 2000 girls) selected randomly from primary schools in Ahvaz. Results indicated that the prevalence of dysgraphia was higher for boys than for girls (%7.6 for boys and %6.4 for girls). Also the results of ANOVA (repeated measures) showed that the use of multi-sense therapy significantly reduces dysgraphia. In addition, the effects of therapeutic intervention stayed after a month later.
H. Shokrkon; H.R. Oreizi; M.A. Naeli; M. MehrabizadelEi Honarmand; I. Soltani
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The present paper reports the application of Flanagan Industrial Tests to predict the job performance of the technical personnel of Mobarekeh Steel Firm. Flanagan Industrial Tests have been prepared to be used in Iran, with satisfactory reliabitliy and validity by Shokrkon and Oreizi (1998). These tests ...
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The present paper reports the application of Flanagan Industrial Tests to predict the job performance of the technical personnel of Mobarekeh Steel Firm. Flanagan Industrial Tests have been prepared to be used in Iran, with satisfactory reliabitliy and validity by Shokrkon and Oreizi (1998). These tests have been designed to measure various aptitudes and abilities. The job performance of the technical personnel of Mobarekeh Steel Firm was assessed by their immediate supervisors, their co-workers, themselves and the organization. First, the tests were completed and returned by 159 technical employees. Then, data were collected about the employees’ performance. The obtained simple and multiple correlation coefficients indicate that the Flanagan Industrial Tests predict and are related to the different assessments of job performance. These relationships are higher when job performance is, assessed by employees themselve, their co-worker and the organization. It is suggested that self and co-worker assessments of job performance are employed in addition to the supervisor assessment.
N. Noun; H. Moulavi; H. Shokrkon
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Considering the effect of attitudes on behavior, the present research was conducted to examine the relationship between Esfahan industrial managers’ attitudes toward behavioral sciences and their college majors, length of employment, and extent of their familiarity with the behavioral sciences ...
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Considering the effect of attitudes on behavior, the present research was conducted to examine the relationship between Esfahan industrial managers’ attitudes toward behavioral sciences and their college majors, length of employment, and extent of their familiarity with the behavioral sciences during the years of 1998-2000. A literature review indicated a paucity of research in this area. Three questionnaires with satisfactory reliability and validity were made and used in this study. The research population consisted of the managers of all industrial organizations having at least 100 personnel. 124 managers were selected randomly as the sample who completed and returned the questionnaires. The results indicated that managers majoring in management had a more positive attitude toward behavioral sciences than the managers majoring in engineering or the managers without a college degree. Managers with different lengths of employment were not different in their attitudes toward the behavioral sciences. However, managers having more familiarity with the behavioral sciences had a more positive attitudes toward these sciences.
H. Shokrkon; J. Haghighi; M. A. Pooladi
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This study was carried out to identify the major factors of acadmic uropout of high school male students in the city of Ahvaz, Iran. The sample consisted of 400 male students who were selected randomly from grades I to 4 of the three majors of mathematics, sciences, and humanities. The factors of academic ...
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This study was carried out to identify the major factors of acadmic uropout of high school male students in the city of Ahvaz, Iran. The sample consisted of 400 male students who were selected randomly from grades I to 4 of the three majors of mathematics, sciences, and humanities. The factors of academic dropout were identified by the statistical method of factor analysis. The hypotheses tested in this study claimed that the dropout factors have simple and multiple correlations with the number of permanent and temporary academic failures of the subjects. Two measures were used to collect the required data: a questionnaire containing 97 items concerning the academic dropout, and a measure to determine the number of students’ temporary and permanent academic failures at different grade levels. The factor analysis provided the following 10 factors: 1. curriculum problems, 2. family- health problems, 3. environmental- school problems, 4. social- behavioral problems, 5. growth problems, 6. examination problems, 7. textbook problems, 8. educational problems, 9. general problems, and 10. family conflicts. The results revealed that the four factors of carriculum, examination, textbooks, and educational problems had significant simple correlations with the number of students’ permanent failures. On the other hand, the stepwise multiple regression showed that only factor 6, i.e., examination problems, had an orthogonal relationship with the number of students’ permanent failures. The five factors of family- health, environmental school, educational, general problems, and family conflicts had significant simple correlations with the number of students’ temporory failures, while, the four factors of family- health, general, educational, and environmental- school problems had a multiple correlation with the number of students’ tempovary failures.
M. Boroumand-Nasab,; H. Shokrkon,; B. Najanan,
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Locus of control is a personality characteristic which refers to a constellation of beliefs and expectations pertaining to people or factors controlling rewards and punishments in one’s life. Some people have an internal and others hold an external locus of control. Those with internal locus of ...
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Locus of control is a personality characteristic which refers to a constellation of beliefs and expectations pertaining to people or factors controlling rewards and punishments in one’s life. Some people have an internal and others hold an external locus of control. Those with internal locus of control believe that hard-working and ‘responsible behavior’ yield positive outcomes. In contrast, those having external locus of control maintain that ‘out-of-control’ factors such as ‘unknown forces’, ‘chance’ and ‘other people’s influences’ control the outcome of their behavior. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between parents’ attitudes toward child rearing and children’s locus of control. In this study, three types of attitudes toward child rearing were tapped, namely Dominating, Ignoring and Possessive. The Sample which was randomly selected from students studying in Dezful’s Guidance Schools, included 217 third-grade boys and girls. Nearly, all four hypotheses and their subsidiary derived hypotheses were confirmed. Based upon these findings, a number of suggestions regarding development and modification of children’s locus of control are offered to parents and teachers.
H. Sharghi; B. Najarian; H. Shokrkon
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The present research has compared the academic performance and affective-social adjustment of the 6 and 7 year old first grade male and female students ot the elementary schools of Ahvaz. The sample consisted of 60 male and 60 female students horn in the month of Mehr 1366 (7-year old), and 60 male and ...
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The present research has compared the academic performance and affective-social adjustment of the 6 and 7 year old first grade male and female students ot the elementary schools of Ahvaz. The sample consisted of 60 male and 60 female students horn in the month of Mehr 1366 (7-year old), and 60 male and 60 female students born in the month of Shahrivar 1367 (6-year old) selected randomly. The measurement of academic performance included the scores in mathematics, reading, and dictation. The affective-social adjustment was measured with the Adjustment Behavior Questionnaire. The students’ intelligence was controlled. The findings showed no significant difference between the school pertormance or attective-social adjustment ot the comparison groups. thus contirmrng the research hypotheses.
