Educational Management
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This paper focuses on one of the basic components of supervisiory needs of begining teachers about partners. The aim of this study was the "assessing needs of novice teachers about parents at primary schools in Tehran". In this study an exploratory mixed method was applied to assess the needs of novice ...
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This paper focuses on one of the basic components of supervisiory needs of begining teachers about partners. The aim of this study was the "assessing needs of novice teachers about parents at primary schools in Tehran". In this study an exploratory mixed method was applied to assess the needs of novice teachers. At qualitative stage, using purposeful sampling and semi-structured interview, 20 interviews with experts in education were conducted. A questionnaire was developed based on 16 indicators identified in interviews and in relevant literature. The questionnaire included 13 questions that asked for the respondents' views. Using "Available Sampling" method, 447 questionnaires were distributed to the teachers – 97 via e-mail and 350 by the researcher’s direct contact. 371 questionnaires were collected. The finding identified main important need and prospect of novice teachers to be lack of parents' follow-up and care of their children. Additionally, teachers expect parents not to interfere in their work. The findings agree with other reliable studies in related areas.
Educational Management
n shirbagi
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This paper aims to study parents’ and teachers’ perception of the parent participation phenomenon in education. A mixed-methods sequential explanatory design was applied. Participants included 200 teachers and 210 parents who were selected viamulti-stage cluster sampling from different socio-economic ...
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This paper aims to study parents’ and teachers’ perception of the parent participation phenomenon in education. A mixed-methods sequential explanatory design was applied. Participants included 200 teachers and 210 parents who were selected viamulti-stage cluster sampling from different socio-economic regions of Kermanshah City. In order to collect data, initially some semi-structured interviews were held. Subsequently, based on highlighted components from interviews, a questionnaire was designed for gathering quantitative data. The validity and reliability measures of the questionnaire were confirmed via exploratory factor analysis and Cronbach’s Alpha. Factors representing quality and mechanisms of participation, types of interaction and psychological and social impacts of participation were derived from the interviews. The findings revealed that almost all of the parents had not been purposefully involved in the educational performance of their children and there was no evidence of parental cooperation as a group was surfaced. The findings indicated that although the parents to a large extent were aware of the importance of their involvement in their children’s education in practice they failed to engage in this activity for several reasons. The parents stated that they were rarely in touch with teachers and were not fully aware of their children’s learning difficulties. In addition the extent of parents’ voluntary participation in the education process of their children was not satisfactory and they rarely helped and guided their children with their homework. Furthermore, despite teachers, parents want that their children to be encouraged to do their school work. Also, unlike the children's fathers, their mothers were more interested in accepting responsibility for the education of their children. However, there is some kind of disagreement between teachers and parents on how to participate in educational affairs. Thus, teachers were unwilling to allow parents to be involved in the educational process. Finally, the findings revealed that in addition to the teachers and parents support as effective factors regarding the students’ habits of study and effort, the students' opinions should be taken into account and considered seriously.
Educational Management
Naghi Raadi Afsouran; A.R. Nasr
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The main aim of this study was investigation of the methodological preferences of researchers in the field of educational administration in the three areas of strategy, methods and research techniques and also its direction of the research strategy in the future. Data were gathered from all published ...
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The main aim of this study was investigation of the methodological preferences of researchers in the field of educational administration in the three areas of strategy, methods and research techniques and also its direction of the research strategy in the future. Data were gathered from all published articles in the recently three years in the two English language journals (Educational Administration Quarterly and Journal of Educational Administration) and two Iranian journals(Journal of Management and Planning in the Educational Systems and Quarterly Journal of New Approaches in Educational Administration). All of published articles in the referred journals, without sampling, was analyzed methodologically. The results showed that: in the area of strategy. in Iran, 88.81% published articles has quantity strategy, 7.89% qualitative strategy and 3.28% mixed strategy. But, in the West, 32.04% published article has quantity strategy, 54.69% qualitative strategy and 13.25% mixed strategy. In the method area, in Iran, dominate methods are survey and correlation methods. However, dominate methods are derived methods from qualitative strategies in the west. In the area of techniques. in Iran, 85.52% published article was using questionnaire. However, the western researches have more used mixed techniques for gathering data. Finally, Researchers in the field of educational administration have progressive movement towards qualitative strategy and its methodsin the West. Meanwhile, the mixed strategy has acceptance and promising ascending growth in the West too.. Key words: Methodology, Educational Administration, Iran, Wes
Educational Management
Hamid Farhadi rad; Abdollah Parsa; Shirzad Nazari
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Abstract The purpose of current study, paraphrase the relationship between collegial leadership Of the Principal, teacher professionalism, academic Press components and Organizational Citizenship Behavior or Explaining why the impact and effectiveness of each these components on The formation, growth ...
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Abstract The purpose of current study, paraphrase the relationship between collegial leadership Of the Principal, teacher professionalism, academic Press components and Organizational Citizenship Behavior or Explaining why the impact and effectiveness of each these components on The formation, growth and development of OCB principals and teachers in primary and secondary schools Citizen of Ahwaz. In this regard, had been used mixed method approaches (quantitative and qualitative). Due to a mixed method survey, in quantitative Section of stratified sampling method and in qualitative Section using purposive sampling continued sampling process was achieved theoretical saturation and as long as were answered questions research. the data were collected from using two questionnaires in quantitative Section and semi-structured interviews in qualitative Section. the Results showed impacting collegial leadership Of the Principal, teacher professionalism and Ineffectiveness academic Press component. The pursuit of results, analysis of the interviews based on a qualitative content analysis approach to inductive method, has been explained the reasons for Ineffectiveness and impacting of each the components.
om ghoochani; m ghanian; m kheirolahi; a lahejan zadeh; m dashte
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The present study sought to determine the factors affecting the responsible behavior of elementary school teachers. In this respect the modified model of responsible behavior was used and, a correlational survey was conducted. All elementary school teachers in Khuzestan province in 2014 formed the statistical ...
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The present study sought to determine the factors affecting the responsible behavior of elementary school teachers. In this respect the modified model of responsible behavior was used and, a correlational survey was conducted. All elementary school teachers in Khuzestan province in 2014 formed the statistical population. Samples of 377 people were selected in 9 cities by stratified sampling. Data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire then analyzed by SPSS (version 20) and AMOS (version 20). The face validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed respectively by a panel of experts, and Cronbach’s alpha coefficients. Using structural equation modeling, the fitting the theoretical framework of this study was tested. The results showed good fit of the theoretical framework of the study. The results revealed the most important affecting factor on environmental behavior of the elementary school teachers of Khuzestan province was the factor subjective norm.
hossein hafezi; mahmod ekrami; nadergholi ghorchiyan; mohammadreza sarmadi
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The present study was conducted to fit the mathematical-structural model of knowledge commercialization in Payame Noor University. This research is quantitative and based on correlation method using Structural Equation Model (SEM) approach. Statistical population consisted of all faculty members and ...
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The present study was conducted to fit the mathematical-structural model of knowledge commercialization in Payame Noor University. This research is quantitative and based on correlation method using Structural Equation Model (SEM) approach. Statistical population consisted of all faculty members and PhD students in Payame Noor University. In this research, the required data were collected by using the proportional stratified sampling method in two stages, pilot stage (100 participants including 79 faculty members and 21 PhD students) and main stage (245 participants including 200 faculty members and 51 PhD students). A research instrument comprising the researcher-made 114-item questionnaire designed to measure seven existing constructs in research model. Psychometric properties, including reliability and validity, measures of research instrument were evaluated and supported by using the confirmatory factor analysis approach on the data of preliminary stage. In order to analyses the data in the main stage, first by means of data screening (including box plot, Mahalonobis statistic, uni- and multivariate Skewness and Kurtosis coefficients, and scatter plot) the position of outliers' data and assumptions underlying Structural Equation Model (SEM) statistical approach were also investigated. Then, by using a statistical approach of structural equation model, the way the model was fitted and mathematical-structural relationships between its existing constructs were tested. The results showed that preliminary fitted model requires some reforms in format involving deleting of 8 direct insignificant paths among its constructs as well as adding paths of correlation variance errors between indicators of the model endogenous constructs. Thus, the final modified model was perfectly fitted.
Philosophy of Education
maryam papazadeh; seyyed jalal hashemi; parvane valavi
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the quantitative and qualitative contents of the History and Philosophy of Education field of M.A. dissertations and Philosophy of Education of Ph.D. theses, taking place in Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, in terms of the extent of using the critical thinking ...
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the quantitative and qualitative contents of the History and Philosophy of Education field of M.A. dissertations and Philosophy of Education of Ph.D. theses, taking place in Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, in terms of the extent of using the critical thinking of Facione components. In the analysis, contents of 75 M.A. dissertations and Ph.D. theses were studied. The results showed that in M.A. dissertations the critical thinking skills have been used us follows: categorizing with 10.40 percent, analyzing reasons, design, and developing the result each with 9.90 percent , identifying the discussions and the reasons with 9.72 percent , testing the ideas, examining and questioning about the evidences, and stating the results with 9.55 percent , exploring and clarifying the meaning with 9.38 percent ,hypothesizing about the substituent results with 5.46 percent , and justifying and explaining the process of working with the 4.95 percent, presenting and clarifying the reasons with 4.78 percent , assessing claims and arguments with 4.43 percent , and self-examination with 2.39 percent, had the highest and the lowest frequency. In Ph.D. theses, the ability of stating the results and clarifying the arguments with 7.38 percent, and, exploring and clarifying the meaning and testing the ideas with 6.25 percent and other skills with a same ratio with 7.95 percent were observed. The results of qualitative content analysis also indicated that while researchers have tried to work on critical skills, but this practice has not been done in an appropriate manner, according to Facione′s view.