M Ali; B Shabani Varaki; T Javidi kalateabadi; M.R Ahanchian
Volume 20, Issue 1 , May 2013, Pages 5-28
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Children in the course of the history of education have been consistently controlled and disciplined by different methods and policies, and from different perspectives. Those methods that are being presently applied as the new disciplinary methods in schools are proclaimed to be the new methods of children ...
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Children in the course of the history of education have been consistently controlled and disciplined by different methods and policies, and from different perspectives. Those methods that are being presently applied as the new disciplinary methods in schools are proclaimed to be the new methods of children obedience in systems of education by Michelle Foucault and his followers, namely Rose, Marshall, Radford; and Millie. This article is an effort to demonstrate how disciplinary methods that are aimed at training efficient and useful individuals for the society by educational systems can lead to obedience and subordination of individuals. To this end, explaining this criticism oriented view on disciplinary actions regimes in the educational system, the present article studies the relation between power and science in the evolution of human understanding of disciplinary action. It has been pointed out that in the history of evolution of disciplinary approaches (intervention, interactive and non- intervention) in the science of education- the political, economic and social discourses of liberalism- educational systems have turned into a factor for self-obedience of children
B Rafiee
Volume 20, Issue 1 , May 2013, Pages 29-50
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Although during the Farabi age philosophy of education did not have an independent identity but with searching in his idea one may find out some concepts which are putforward in our today education. This means that Farabi after the Jaber Ebn Hayan and Kendy was the third moslem philosopher who developed ...
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Although during the Farabi age philosophy of education did not have an independent identity but with searching in his idea one may find out some concepts which are putforward in our today education. This means that Farabi after the Jaber Ebn Hayan and Kendy was the third moslem philosopher who developed new concepts. In this paper it is intended elaborate Farabi’s Idea through a analytical-historical and descriptive method. It is also aims to find out about his views on curriculum and foundation of education methods. The study has made it clear that in less than one century from the beginning of Islam, Muslim scholars have attended to such important fields of educational effectively
S.M Marashi; Y Mehralizadeh; T Toosi
Volume 20, Issue 1 , May 2013, Pages 51-74
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The aim of this research is study ofTheoretical foundation of Globalization and its impact on goals of curriculums in Iran education system. In doing this, three known philosophical, economical, cultural, and political theories are considered with focusing on the curriculum goals which have been discussed ...
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The aim of this research is study ofTheoretical foundation of Globalization and its impact on goals of curriculums in Iran education system. In doing this, three known philosophical, economical, cultural, and political theories are considered with focusing on the curriculum goals which have been discussed by Valershtan (world system theory), Mayer and Boli (world polity theory, and Robertson (world culture theory). Reflection of each theory in curriculum shows that trends of educational system in the world is shifting towards a pluralism, minorities, national and local cultures, technical and vocational education, lifelong learning, and decentralization. With regards to Iran’s society characteristics as a young society this research was going to see the reflection of those theories over Iranian education system and its curriculum goals. The results revealed that there are some positive reflections and opportunities from those theories within Iran’s education system particularly issues such as privatization, decentralization, integrated curriculum, peace and lifelong education. At the same time, some of the threatens of the impact of those theories in Iran’s education system are addressing single subject curriculum, economic manipulation, customers consumption and inequality of education system for all children
N Azizi; P Jafari; V Farzad; M Senoubari
Volume 20, Issue 1 , May 2013, Pages 75-94
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This study aims to investigate the views of the school principals and scholars in economics of education on the obstacles which render private sector participation in Iran' education. Sample included 284 school principals and ten of the well-known scholars in the field of economics of education who were ...
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This study aims to investigate the views of the school principals and scholars in economics of education on the obstacles which render private sector participation in Iran' education. Sample included 284 school principals and ten of the well-known scholars in the field of economics of education who were working at Tehran universities. Samples were selected via the cluster and the purposeful sampling methods respectively. In order to collect data, a questionnaire with 62 closed items was applied. T-test for one sample was used for data analysis. The findings showed that the government's negative view and its mistrust to private sector potential to provide educational bases, participation for just economic benefits, lack of private sector's motivation entering educational market, lack of facilities anticipation and supporting and facilitating actions are amongst the most important obstacles which participants believe would not allow that the none for profit schools be expanded effectively in Iran.
A Kordzangeneh; S Shahi; Y Mehralizadeh
Volume 20, Issue 1 , May 2013, Pages 95-116
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This research is addressing the issue of effectiveness of ICDL training courses on knowledge, attitude and skills of employees of Water and Power organization (WPO) in Khuzestan province. The research used transactional model of Halton. Research sampling technique was stratified sampling technique which ...
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This research is addressing the issue of effectiveness of ICDL training courses on knowledge, attitude and skills of employees of Water and Power organization (WPO) in Khuzestan province. The research used transactional model of Halton. Research sampling technique was stratified sampling technique which from 1279 employees of WPO 220 employees were selected. A researcher designed questionnaire which composed of three mail elements of knowledge, attitude and skills of ICDL courses were distributed among 200 employees and interview been done with 20 other employees. Collected data were analysed with spss and qualitative method. The results show that the employees' satisfactions with ICDL effectiveness were lower than expected. This means that organization activities in relation to ICDL courses require more attention and reengineering
H Fardanesh; I Ebrahimzadeh; M.R Sarmadi; N Hemati; M Rezaee; S Omrani
Volume 20, Issue 1 , May 2013, Pages 117-136
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The purpose of this study was to identify an appropriate Instructional method for Continuing Medical Education using traditional (lecture based) and two Electronic learning methods. In this quasi-experimental study 90 General physicians and assistants according to the recall of Kermanshah University ...
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The purpose of this study was to identify an appropriate Instructional method for Continuing Medical Education using traditional (lecture based) and two Electronic learning methods. In this quasi-experimental study 90 General physicians and assistants according to the recall of Kermanshah University and by available sampling method in three groups including 30 people participated. The traditional continuing medical education attended in the classroom received lecture based teaching and was taught by experienced college teachers. The E-learning content in the second group was developed by using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 software with both text and image media and in the third group by using Adobe Flash CS5 software with all five media (text, images, sound, animation and video). It should be noted that the three groups had similar content in terms of text. The gathering instrument was four questionnaires, included of demographic information (8- items). The rate of learning by comparing pre- test and post-test scores (20- items were written at application level by using the Merrill’s taxonomy) and two questionnaires measuring motivation in learning based on the traditional and e-learning methods (48- items). Data analysis was performed by paired sample T test and chi square, One-way analysis of variance, Kruskal-Wallis and Tukey’s test. The findings showed that there were no significant differences between groups in the average scores achieved in the pre-test exam in three groups (p˂0/05). The results of One-way ANOVA test in the post-test exam showed that the learning rate was not statistically different between Group I and Group II and the third group had the highest rate of increase in learning than the other groups that was statistically significant (p=0.001). Also, participants’ motivation in group II was more than group I and participants using Merrill’s, Reigeluth’s & Keller’s models were more motivated than with the other two methods (p=0.001). Conclusion: As a result, educational method based on instructional and motivational models, in terms of learning and motivation rate to teach physicians, was more effective than traditional teaching methods and merely instructional design models.
A Shiralipour; M Asadi; A.M Nazari; Z Shakuri
Volume 20, Issue 1 , May 2013, Pages 131-154
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This research using one of new research methods namely meta-analysis evaluates the results of studies surveying effective agents bilingualism and preschool education in education achievement. These studies have been accomplished in Iran. In this way 28 accomplished researches about effective agents bilingualism ...
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This research using one of new research methods namely meta-analysis evaluates the results of studies surveying effective agents bilingualism and preschool education in education achievement. These studies have been accomplished in Iran. In this way 28 accomplished researches about effective agents bilingualism and preschool education in scholastic achievement were gathered and 10 reports of them were chosen for meta-analysis. These reports on base of research methodology parameters concluding questions, theories, statistic society, sampling, research method, statistic method validity and reliability of inventory were chosen for meta-analysis. Statistic analysis by use of comprehensive meta-analysis software was done. This study using incorporation of effect size by Schmitt and Hunts method shown that there is no relation between bilingualism and education achievement, but there is relation between education achievement and preschool education.
N Behrouzi; M Shogabi; M Mehrabizadeh honarmand; GH Maktabi
Volume 20, Issue 1 , May 2013, Pages 155-170
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The present study attented to examine the relationship of self directed learning with life satisfaction and academic performance of female students. The population of this study included all of the female student of high school in Bushehr. The sample used in this study consisted of 246 female students ...
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The present study attented to examine the relationship of self directed learning with life satisfaction and academic performance of female students. The population of this study included all of the female student of high school in Bushehr. The sample used in this study consisted of 246 female students who were selected randomly by multistage sampling method. The scales used this study were Self Directed Learning Scale and Multidimensional Students Life Satisfaction Scale. The average of student was used as index of academic performance for analyzing the data simple correlation and multiple regression were used. For analyze the data, both descriminant analysis and descriptive statistics were used. The results of this study showed that the correlation of self directed learning and its dimension with life satisfaction, and academic performance were significantly positive. In addition, the results of regression indicated that self management was best predictor of life satisfaction, and desire for learning was best predictor of academic performance in students. the results of regression indicated that dimension of self directed learning were best predictor of life satisfaction and academic performance. These findings were discussed in the light of related theories and past research results. Some educational implications were offered.
M Sabzvari; A Abedi; M.J Liaghatdar
Volume 20, Issue 1 , May 2013, Pages 171-188
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The present study aims at comparing the social-emotional learning and social skills of the students of the public and bag at school private school’s using a descriptive casual-comparative method. The participants of the presents study consist of the five and fourth grade students of public and ...
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The present study aims at comparing the social-emotional learning and social skills of the students of the public and bag at school private school’s using a descriptive casual-comparative method. The participants of the presents study consist of the five and fourth grade students of public and bag at school private elementary school’s of Isfahan in the years 1388-1389. For the purpose of this study 157 students were chosen in a multistage random cluster sampling way. To collect data, Coryn et als (2009) Questionnaire of social-emotional learning as well as Gresham & Elliott (1990) social skill models. The results of the study showed that there is a meaningful difference In the social-emotional learning of the bag at school and public school’s students. Regarding social - emotional components (self-regulation, peer relationship, Task articulation), there is a meaningful difference in the self-expression aspect. Regarding the task articulation and peer relationships, no meaning difference was observed. Furthemore the result showed the there is a meaningful difference between social skill of students of bag at school and public school’s. Regarding the social skill components (cooperation, expression, empathy, self- control), there is a meaningful difference in self-expression and self-control aspect. no meaningful difference was observed regarding the cooperation and empathy components. The result of the study also demonstrate that there is a significance difference in the social– emotional learning of the bag at school and public school’s student based on their gender in the aspect of their peer relationship, It means that girl students in comparison with boy students got higher scores with respect to peer relationship component. No significance difference was observed in the social skills of the bag at school and public school’s students based on their gender.
soudabe Basaknezad; Razie Saeedi; Mahnaz Mehrabizadeh
Volume 20, Issue 1 , May 2013, Pages 189-202
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The aim of present study was to investigate the role of cognitive test anxiety, perceived threat of test, attributions to performance, looming maladaptive style & fear of negative evaluation as predictors of test anxiety in female high school students. The sample of this research were 874 female ...
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The aim of present study was to investigate the role of cognitive test anxiety, perceived threat of test, attributions to performance, looming maladaptive style & fear of negative evaluation as predictors of test anxiety in female high school students. The sample of this research were 874 female high school students were selected by multi- stage random sampling method and two groups were chosen from this sample that consisted of test anxiety group (n=105) and non test anxiety group (n=105) students. The instruments used in these study consisted: Cognitive Test Anxiety Scale, Perceived Threat of Test Questionnaire, Attributions to Performance Questionnaire, Looming Maladaptive Questionnaire & Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale. For analysis data, discriminate analysis performed and approved all the hypothesis of the research. Step by step of discriminate analysis showed that cognitive test anxiety and looming maladaptive style are best predictors of test anxiety. So cognition has main role to predict test anxiety among female students.
Mahmood Bohrani; Gholamreza Rajabi
Volume 20, Issue 1 , May 2013, Pages 203-220
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This research aimed to study of the effects of classroom goal structures on students’ psychological wellbeing with respect to the mediating role of self-efficacy and basic psychological needs. In this regard, the effects of performance and mastery goal structure as exogenous variables with self-efficacy ...
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This research aimed to study of the effects of classroom goal structures on students’ psychological wellbeing with respect to the mediating role of self-efficacy and basic psychological needs. In this regard, the effects of performance and mastery goal structure as exogenous variables with self-efficacy and basic psychological needs as mediating variables on wellbeing were tested through a hypothesis model. Research method in this study was a correlation research. The subjects consisted of 160 secondary students (77 girls and 83 boys) of tenth grade in 2010-11 academic years, which were selected by cluster random sampling method from four educational region of Shiraz city. Instruments included the basic psychological needs scale (1985), the goal structure scale (2003), the self-efficacy scale (1982) and the life satisfaction scale (2007). The results showed that, the effect of performance goals structure were not supported by the empirical data, But the effect of mastery goals structure were supported. The exogenous variable of mastery goals could significantly predict the mediating self-efficacy and basic psychological needs variables, and the latter variables also significantly predicted well-being as the final endogenous variable. In this manner, only the mastery goals structure can predict students' psychological well-being with mediating role of academic self-efficacy and psychological needs. However, this result is in regard with the importance of mastery goals which emphasis on dominated learning over subject has theoretical and logical benef
Ali Baniasadi; Hadi Pourshafei
Volume 20, Issue 1 , May 2013, Pages 221-242
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The goal of this research was the study of validity and reliability of revised short form of studying approaches to measuring the studying approaches of high school students. For this goal a sample was selected by the cluster method that complets the mentioned scale. This sample includes 310 students ...
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The goal of this research was the study of validity and reliability of revised short form of studying approaches to measuring the studying approaches of high school students. For this goal a sample was selected by the cluster method that complets the mentioned scale. This sample includes 310 students (155 female students and 155 male students) that 144 persons of them were studying mathematic and 166 persons were studying experiential sience. Internal consistency coefficients of each item measure between 30% and 71% by measuring the correlation of each item with total score of each approach. Conclusions of principle components studying, by varimax rotation show that similar to long’s conclusions, strategic approach with all of it’s items load in one factor and each of deep and surface approach items load in tow factors. So questionnaire (by omiting 2 items) includes 5 factor :strategic ,unrelated memorizing ,understanding the meaning, relationship of concepts, and fear of failure .In addition to the negative relationship between the surface approach and deep and strategic approaches and positive relationship between deep approach and strategic approach is the witness of scal validity .The Cronbach’s alpha and tes-retest reliability coefficients are in the suitable range and show the permanency in measuring the studying approach of high school students .
GH Rahimidoost; D Norozi; H Fardanesh; M.H Amirtymori
Volume 20, Issue 1 , May 2013, Pages 243-268
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Scaffolding is a component of designing problem solving learning environment model. The present research aimed to study components of instructional scaffolding and formulate an effective instructional scaffolding model for computer-based and problem solving learning environment. Research method was mixed ...
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Scaffolding is a component of designing problem solving learning environment model. The present research aimed to study components of instructional scaffolding and formulate an effective instructional scaffolding model for computer-based and problem solving learning environment. Research method was mixed including qualitative content analysis and a survey. Deductive content analysis was used as a qualitative content analysis method. Survey questionnaire was validated by 5 educational sciences specialists and retest method was used to analysis reliability of the test. Sampling method for qualitative content analysis was targeted selection and for survey was simple random sampling method. Findings revealed that the metacognitive scaffolding must be used to support learner metacognitive skills; following effective metacognitive scaffolding strategies were found and explained. And motivational scaffolding must be used to support learner academic motivation; following effective motivational scaffolding strategies were found and explained. Also cognitive scaffolding must be used to support learner prior knowledge; following effective cognitive scaffolding strategies were found and explained. And also effective scaffolding strategies for problem solving learning environment were found and explain. Finally effective scaffolding framework and then a scaffolding model was proposed and by the end validated by 20 instructional technologies.
