Social Sciences
Amir Hosein Shokoufi Moghiman; Parinaz Benisi; Maryam Mosleh
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Background and purpose: By turning the school into a learning organization, the society is gradually guided towards development and lifelong learning. Therefore, today, turning schools into learning organizations is an important issue, and in order to realize it, one must have a correct understanding ...
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Background and purpose: By turning the school into a learning organization, the society is gradually guided towards development and lifelong learning. Therefore, today, turning schools into learning organizations is an important issue, and in order to realize it, one must have a correct understanding and insight into some of its surrounding concepts and issues. Therefore, the aim of the current research is to compile and fit the model of factors related to the development of learning public schools.
Method: The research approach is qualitative and quantitative and a semi-structured interview was conducted through targeted sampling with 22 experts from the Ministry of Education and schools in Tehran until reaching theoretical saturation and finally a questionnaire was designed based on the results of the qualitative part and spread among experts. In order to explore the development model of learning schools, data analysis was done using the foundational data theory and through MAXQDA software. Also, the fit of the relevant model was determined through structural equations using SmartPLS software.
Findings: After conducting qualitative interviews and coding, general categories and subcategories and identification concepts and causal factors, background factors, intervention factors, strategies and consequences of development of learning schools were determined and finally the development model of learning schools with 6 main dimensions and 17 subcategories. And 221 indicators were designed. Also, the fit of the extracted model was confirmed.
Results: Iran's education should simultaneously with the evolution of educational approaches in the world, provide the basis for the formation of learning schools, and in these schools, enhanced learning processes and an integrated interactive environment will be provided to improve the key skills of students, so that all the beneficiaries of the benefits of school development Learners benefit.
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Bibinaeimeh Sheikh; Kambiz Esmaeilnia shirvani; Maryam Safari; Masoumeh Bagherpur
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Objective: Education along with finding ideas and creativity fostering in schools, especially in conservatories is of particular importance. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model of education along with production based on idea finding and creativity fostering ...
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Objective: Education along with finding ideas and creativity fostering in schools, especially in conservatories is of particular importance. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model of education along with production based on idea finding and creativity fostering in the conservatories of Golestan province.
Method: This study was conducted with a qualitative approach. The statistical population of the present study were experts familiar with the field of research, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 20 people of them were selected as a sample with using the purposeful sampling method. The tool of this study was a semi-structured interview, which the validity was calculated by the content method 0.76 and the reliability was calculated by the agreement coefficient between two coders method 0.89. The data of the present study were analyzed by coding method in MAXQDA software.
Results: The findings showed that the model of education along with production based on idea finding and creativity fostering in the conservatories of Golestan province had 56 components and 11 dimensions. The dimensions of the mentioned model were included content and organization (with 5 components), curriculum goals (with 14 components), teaching and learning strategies (with 7 components), connection with the labor market (with 3 components), participation in curriculum production (with 2 components), training and consulting (with 4 components), principles of compilation (with 3 components), evaluation (with 7 components), location activation and production facilitation (with 5 components), continuous interaction with scientific centers (with 3 components) and curriculum features (with 3 components).
Conclusion: Specialists and planners of the educational system, especially the education system of conservatories according to the identified dimensions and components can provide the basis for improving education along with production based on idea finding and creativity fostering in the conservatories.
Social Sciences
Mohammed Hamzah Mansoor Altalebi; Mehrdad Sadeghi; Riyaz Hossein Abais AlMurshidi; Saeed Sharifi
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Purpose: Organizational citizenship behavior plays an important role in improving the service quality of organizations, including education organization. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the categories of organizational citizenship model in the education.Methodology: ...
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Purpose: Organizational citizenship behavior plays an important role in improving the service quality of organizations, including education organization. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the categories of organizational citizenship model in the education.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from type of correlation. The research population was the education managers and workers of Babol province in Iraq country, and according to Cochran's formula the sample size was determined to be 385 people which this number was selected by available sampling method. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire of organizational citizenship in the education with 61 items, which its data were analyzed by exploratory factor analysis and partial least squares in SPSS-22 and Smart-PLS-4 software.Findings: The findings showed that the central phenomenon of organizational citizenship in education had 10 components in 5 categories of causal conditions, contextual conditions, intervening conditions, strategies and consequences (each one two components), which all of components had a factor loading of higher than 0.50 and all of them had Cronbach and combined reliability of higher than 0.70. Also, the correlation coefficients of the categories of causal conditions, contextual conditions, intervening conditions, central phenomenon, strategies and consequences were less than 0.45 and were indicated their non-overlapping. In addition, according to the indicators of commonality and redundancy, the organizational citizenship model in the education had a good fit and the effect of causal conditions, contextual conditions and intervening conditions on the central phenomenon, the effect of central phenomenon on the strategies and the effect of strategies on the consequences were significant (P<0.05).Conclusion: The designed organizational citizenship model in the education can help to education managers, officials and planners in designing programs to improve the organizational citizenship in this organization.
Social Sciences
Fatemeh Sharifi Golzardi; Ali Mohebi; Ruhollah Karimi Khoigani
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Purpose: Economic education is one of the needs of the day for all people, including students. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identifying the components of the economic education concept in the junior secondary education period.Methodology: The current research had a qualitative approach and ...
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Purpose: Economic education is one of the needs of the day for all people, including students. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identifying the components of the economic education concept in the junior secondary education period.Methodology: The current research had a qualitative approach and in terms of purpose was an applied research. The statistical population of this study were included all the documents of the last 15 years related to the scope of the current research, including articles, master's dissertations, Ph.D.'s theses and books. The population of this study were included 179 article, 22 master's dissertation, 5 Ph.D.'s thesis and 11 book, which 23 case of them were selected as a sample by purposive sampling method. The data of this study were collected by note taking and were analyzed by coding method according to synthesis research approach.Findings: The results of the findings showed that the economic education concept in the junior secondary education period had 30 sub components and 13 main components. The main components of the economic education concept in the junior secondary education period were included financial literacy (with 3 sub components), economic insight (with 1 sub component), preservation and development of economic and financial resources (with 2 sub components), consumption correct pattern (with 2 sub components), savings and investment relationship (with 3 sub components), budget management (with 3 sub components), social responsibility and commitment (with 1 sub component), specialization-orientation and innovation (with 2 sub components), respecting the rights of others (with 2 sub component), ethics-oriented (with 3 sub components), valuing work (with 5 sub components), opportunism (with 2 sub components) and tolerance (with 1 sub-component).Conclusion: According to the findings of this study, it is possible to teach the identified main and sub components for the economic education concept in the junior secondary education period
Social Sciences
Elnaz Yousefi Tazeh Kand Qeshlag; Shahram Ranjdoust; Mohamad Azimi
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Purpose: Revolutionary education of Iran is a part of society and a representative of a complex social system and discourse and Farhangian University seeks to educated efficient human resources and revolutionary teachers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identifying the characteristics of ...
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Purpose: Revolutionary education of Iran is a part of society and a representative of a complex social system and discourse and Farhangian University seeks to educated efficient human resources and revolutionary teachers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identifying the characteristics of revolutionary education curriculum goals in Farhangian University with a foresight approach.
Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was combined (qualitative and quantitative). The research population in the qualitative section was the professors of Farhangian University in West Azerbaijan province, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 13 people of them were selected as a sample with the available non-random sampling method. The research population in the quantitative section was the professors of Farhangian University in West Azerbaijan province, which number of 234 people of them were selected as a sample with the total sampling method. The research tool in the qualitative section was a semi-structured interview and in the quantitative section was a researcher-made questionnaire, which whose psychometric indicators were confirmed. The data of the qualitative section were analyzed with thematic analysis method in MAXQDA version 10 software and the data of the quantitative section were analyzed with exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS version 26 and AMOS version 21 software.
Findings: The results of the qualitative section of this study showed that the characteristics of revolutionary education curriculum goals in Farhangian University with a foresight approach have thirteen sub-themes in three main themes were included emotional goals (with four sub-themes of driving excellence and progress, aware and knowledgeable to the revolution and revolutionary education, beliefs transfer and Islamic ethics virtues), cognitive goals (with four sub-themes of recognizing the values and ideals of the revolution, fostering Islamic beliefs, reviving Islamic civilization and familiarity with the concept of justice) and skill/performance goals (with five sub-themes of creating a visible change in student behavior, launching the dialogue of civilizations, strengthening people's tendency towards independence, strengthening the skill of participating in group discussions and familiarizing with the strategies of searching scientific texts. The results of the quantitative section of this study showed that the factor load and average variance extracted of all factors were higher than 0.50 and the Cronbach's reliability of all of them was higher than 0.80. Also, the model of the characteristics of revolutionary education curriculum goals in Farhangian University with a foresight approach had a good fit, and in this model and according to the path coefficients all thirteen factors had a direct and significant effect on the goals (P<0.01).
Conclusion: The identified characteristics for the revolutionary education curriculum goals in Farhangian University with a foresight approach can help experts, officials, managers and planners in designing and implementing programs to improve the curriculum goals of the educational system.
Social Sciences
Mohammad Delghandi; Mohammad karimi; Hassan Nodehi; Moslem Cherabin
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Purpose: Due to the growth and evolution of information and communication technology, the methods of education have also undergone extensive changes. Therefore, the present research was conducted with the aim of designing an efficient virtual education pattern in Farhangian University.Methodology: This ...
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Purpose: Due to the growth and evolution of information and communication technology, the methods of education have also undergone extensive changes. Therefore, the present research was conducted with the aim of designing an efficient virtual education pattern in Farhangian University.Methodology: This research in terms of purpose and implementation method was applied and descriptive from type of exploratory, respectively. The current study population were included all managers and professors of Farhangian universities in Khorasan Razavi province including six Pardis in 2021 year. The samples of the present study according to the principle of theoretical saturation were determined 13 people who after checking the inclusion criteria were selected by purposive sampling method. The data of this study were collected by semi-structured interview (validity was confirmed by triangulation method and reliability was obtained by Cohen's Kappa coefficient 0.87) and analyzed by thematic analysis and three rounds of Delphi.Findings: According to the analysis of the interviews, the efficient virtual education pattern in Farhangian University had 71 sub themes in the form of 12 main themes. In this study, the main themes were included pedagogical factors, technological factors, organizational factors, integrated management, foresight, purposive educational quality, measurability, flexibility in education, support services, knowledge management, ease of access and information and content. Also, after the first round of Delphi, 9 sub themes and after the second round of Delphi 6 sub themes were removed from the efficient virtual education pattern in Farhangian University, and in the third round of Delphi all the sub themes were evaluated as appropriate. As a result, the final pattern of efficient virtual education in Farhangian University had 56 sub themes in the form of 12 main themes, and the pattern of its main themes was drawn.Conclusion: The managers, officials and planners of Farhangian University according to the designed efficient virtual education pattern in Farhangian University can improve the conditions to improve the current state of education, especially virtual education in this university.
Social Sciences
Atefeh Mohkamkar; Fatemeh Shaterian; Azam Nikookar
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Objective: Successful intelligence can improve many psychological and academic characteristics, and considering the importance of emotional self-awareness and academic engagement, the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of education based on successful intelligence ...
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Objective: Successful intelligence can improve many psychological and academic characteristics, and considering the importance of emotional self-awareness and academic engagement, the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of education based on successful intelligence on emotional self-awareness and academic engagement of secondary school students.Method: This was a semi-experimental study with a pre-test, post-test and follow-up design with experimental and control groups. The population of the current research was all students of the tenth and eleventh grades of theoretical branch of Saveh city in the academic years of 2022-3, which the sample size was calculated according to G Power software equal to 25 people for each group. Therefore, 50 people were selected by a targeted method and randomly replaced into two experimental and control groups. The experimental group received 10 sessions of 75 minute of education based on successful intelligence, and the control group did not receive any intervention during this period. The research tools were included the revised emotional self-awareness questionnaire of Rieffe et al (2008) and academic engagement questionnaire of Schaufeli et al (2002), which whose psychometric indicators were confirmed. In this study, to analyze the data were used from analysis of variance with repeated measurements and Bonferroni's post hoc test in SPSS software.Results: The findings showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in the post-test and follow-up phases in terms of emotional self-awareness and academic engagement. In the other words, education based on successful intelligence increased the emotional self-awareness and academic engagement of second school students, and the results remained in the follow-up phase as well (P<0.05).Conclusion: Considering the effectiveness of education based on successful intelligence on increasing the emotional self-awareness and academic engagement of secondary school students, to improve the psychological and academic characteristics of students can be used the method of education based on successful intelligence.
Social Sciences
Ramazan Jannati; Maryam Afzalkhani; Hadi Rezghi Shirsvar
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Purpose: The present research was conducted with the aim of identifying the factors affecting the development of teachers' and students' participation in research activities (student research centers).Methodology: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and qualitative in terms of execution ...
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Purpose: The present research was conducted with the aim of identifying the factors affecting the development of teachers' and students' participation in research activities (student research centers).Methodology: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and qualitative in terms of execution method. The research community was experts in the field of student research institutes of Semnan province in 2021-2022, among them, according to the principle of theoretical saturation, 16 people were selected using targeted and snowball sampling methods. were chosen. The tool of data collection was a semi-structured interview, the validity of which was confirmed by the triangulation method and the reliability of 62% was obtained by the Cohen's kappa coefficient method. Data were analyzed by open, axial and selective coding method in MAXQDA 2020 software.Findings: The findings showed that the factors affecting the development of teachers' and students' participation in research activities included 18 concepts, 6 sub-categories and 3 main categories. The main categories include the structure of the research center (with two sub-categories of the system of rewarding and appreciating the efforts of teachers and students and the conditions of application and ethical principles in its process), the clear mission and vision of the research center (with the two sub-categories of developing a strategic plan and developing Specific goals, missions, values and perspectives) and laws, regulations and policies (with the subcategory of flexibility in the process of employing teachers, student teachers and gifted students and adding points in the annual evaluation and ranking).Discussion and conclusion: Considering the effective factors identified on the development of teachers' and students' participation in research activities (student research centers), it is necessary to plan for the development of their participation, which is realized through the identified factors.
Social Sciences
Shokouh Jamali Zavareh; Gholamreza Manshaee; Mohammad Ali Nadi
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Objective: the aim of this study was to compilation, normalization and validation of ineffective behaviors of universities professors.Method: This study was a descriptive from type of correlation that its population was all the faculty members of five big universities in the 2019-2020 academic years. ...
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Objective: the aim of this study was to compilation, normalization and validation of ineffective behaviors of universities professors.Method: This study was a descriptive from type of correlation that its population was all the faculty members of five big universities in the 2019-2020 academic years. The sample of the research was 123 professors of the mentioned universities who were selected by available sampling method. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire of ineffective behaviors of universities professors with 64 items in three factors of educational, research and communication. The data were analyzed with the methods of content validity ratio, content validity index and exploratory factor analysis in SPSS and Smart-PLS software.Results: The results of content validity ratio and content validity index showed that these statistics were obtained for all three educational, research and communication factors and the components of each of them were higher than 0.80. the results of exploratory factor analysis showed that there were three factors for the ineffective behavior of universities professors; So that the first factor i.e. the educational factor had 3 components, the second factor i.e. the research factor had 4 components and the third factor i.e. the communication factor had 5 components, which the factor loading of all of them was higher than 0.60 and the Cronbach and combined reliability of all of them was higher than 0.70. In addition, the values of R2 for all factors and components were higher than 0.50 and the GOF index was equal to 0.43, which indicated the appropriate fit of the model and the model of ineffective behaviors of universities professors was drawn in the factor loading and t-test modes, which based on, the inefficient behaviors of universities professors had a significant effect on educational, research and communication factors and each factor on its components due to a t-statistic higher than 1.96.Conclusion: The questionnaire of the current research is a valid and reliable tool for measuring the ineffective behaviors of universities professors. University administrators and officials can use it to measure the ineffective behaviors of their university professors and design programs to reduce these behaviors.
Social Sciences
Zhila Shahbazi; Soheila Hosseinpour; Ayatolah Karimi Bagh Malek; Abotaleb Saadati Shamir
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Receive: 2023/10/01Accept: 2023/01/23Published: 2023/01/23 Purpose: Moral education is an important factor in improving the state of educational systems. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigating the affecting scientific ...
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Receive: 2023/10/01Accept: 2023/01/23Published: 2023/01/23 Purpose: Moral education is an important factor in improving the state of educational systems. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigating the affecting scientific factors on the moral education of senior school female students and to presenting a pattern.Methodology: The current research is among mixed exploratory research (qualitative-quantitative). The qualitative population was university experts of Tehran city, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 15 people of them were selected through purposive and snowball sampling methods and were subjected to semi-structured interviews. The quantitative population was the senior school female students of five district of Tehran city, which according to Krejcie and Morgan's table and due to possible spills number of 384 people were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method and answered the researcher-made questionnaire. The qualitative and quantitative data were analyzed with open, central and selective coding methods in MAXQDA software and exploratory factor analysis in SPSS and LISREL software, respectively.Findings: The findings showed that the affecting scientific factors on the moral education of senior school female students were included 87 indicators, 21 concepts in 10 categories of social maturity, social, cultural, economic, family and educational infrastructures, personality and moral characteristics and learning and parenting styles, economic factors, critical thinking, social mission, life priorities, valid moral resources, self-awareness and social damages. Other findings showed that validity was confirmed because the average variance extracted for all 10 categories was higher than 0.50 and reliability was confirmed because the Cronbach's alpha and combined was higher than 0.70 for all of them. In addition, the pattern of affecting scientific factors on the moral education of senior school female students had a good fit and I the said pattern the factor load of all 10 categories was significant (P<0.05).Conclusion: The pattern of affecting scientific factors on the moral education of senior school female students has practical implications for education officials and supervisors. According to the results of this study, they can take an effective step towards improving the moral education of students.
Social Sciences
Ali Doosti; Mohammad Mohammadipour; Abdollah Mafakheri
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Purpose: Considering the decreasing age of addiction and the many problems faced by addicts, the present research was conducted with the aim of presenting a causal model of bias towards drugs in students based on the academic failure and hyperactivity and attention deficit with the mediating role of ...
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Purpose: Considering the decreasing age of addiction and the many problems faced by addicts, the present research was conducted with the aim of presenting a causal model of bias towards drugs in students based on the academic failure and hyperactivity and attention deficit with the mediating role of hopelessness feelings.Methodology: The current research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from type of correlation. The research population was all the junior and senior high school students of one district of Mashhad city in the 2020-2021 academic years, which number of 310 people of them were selected as a sample by cluster random sampling method. The tools of the current research were the questionnaires of addiction potential, academic failure, hyperactivity and attention deficit and hopelessness, which whose psychometric indicators were confirmed in previous researches and in this study. Data were analyzed by structural equation modeling method in SPSS version 24 and AMOS version 24 software.Findings: The findings of the present study showed that the causal model of bias towards drugs in students based on the academic failure and hyperactivity and attention deficit with the mediating role of hopelessness feelings had a good fit. Also, the variable of academic failure on the hopelessness feelings and bias towards drugs, the variable of hyperactivity and attention deficit on the hopelessness feelings and the variable of hopelessness feelings on the bias towards drugs had a direct and significant effect (P<0.05), but the variable of hyperactivity and attention deficit on the bias towards drugs hadn’t a direct and significant effect (P>0.05). In addition, academic failure and hyperactivity and attention deficit had an indirect and significant effect on the bias towards drugs with the mediating of hopelessness feelings (P<0.05).Conclusion: The results indicated the effective role of academic failure and hyperactivity and attention deficit with the mediating of hopelessness feeling on bias towards drugs. Therefore, the planners and specialists of cultural and educational activities of adolescents in order reduce to bias towards drugs can seek to design and implement programs to reduce academic failure, hyperactivity and attention deficit and hopelessness feelings.
Social Sciences
Abbas Razaghi; Mostafa Ghaderi; Kambiz Poushaneh; Alireza Assareh
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Purpose: Today, due to the growth of information and communication technology, the importance of using online curriculum has increased. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identifying the elements and indicators and validation of the comprehensive online curriculum pattern.Methodology: This was ...
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Purpose: Today, due to the growth of information and communication technology, the importance of using online curriculum has increased. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identifying the elements and indicators and validation of the comprehensive online curriculum pattern.Methodology: This was an applied study from type of qualitative that was done with the synthesis research method. In the current research, among the researches related to the research area number of 75 cases were selected with a purposeful method and taking notes on them was done in order to achieve a suitable summary about the comprehensive online curriculum pattern. Also, 32 experts were used to check the validation of the mentioned model, which they commented on the importance of each of the 31 questions about the validity of the comprehensive online curriculum pattern. Finally, the data were analyzed by synthesis research and fuzzy Delphi methods.Findings: The findings of synthesis research showed that for the online curriculum was identified 174 indicators in 13 elements including goals (with 10 indicators), student (with 12 indicators), teacher (with 14 indicators), content (with 15 indicators), support (with 12 indicators), grouping (with 17 indicators), presence (with 11 indicators), technology (with 11 indicators), time (with 11 indicators), learning environment (with 12 indicators), interaction (with 23 indicators), materials and resources (with 8 indicators) and evaluation (with 18 indicators). The findings of the fuzzy Delphi in the second round showed that out of 31 questions about the validation of the comprehensive online curriculum pattern the said model had adequate validity.Conclusion: The comprehensive and valid online curriculum pattern of this study can be used by experts and curriculum planners to improve online education.
Social Sciences
Zhila Sarmasti; Marjan Kian; Yusuf Mahdavi Nasab; Majid Ali Asgari
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Objective: Digital literacy in any job plays an effective role in the level of professional competence. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of identifying the platforms, obstacles and strategies of digital literacy in order to promoting the level of professional competence of teachers.Method: ...
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Objective: Digital literacy in any job plays an effective role in the level of professional competence. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of identifying the platforms, obstacles and strategies of digital literacy in order to promoting the level of professional competence of teachers.Method: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The current study population was university and education experts in the 2021-2022 academic years. The sample size of this research according to the principle of theoretical saturation was determined of 24 people, and these people were selected as a sample by purposive non-random sampling method. The only tool of the current research was a semi-structured interview, which whose content validity based on the opinion of experts was confirmed, and its reliability was obtained using the intra-subject agreement coefficient method 0.84. The data of this study were analyzed by open, axial and selective coding method in MAXQDA-10 software.Results: The results of open, axial and selective coding of digital literacy in order to promoting the level of professional competence of teachers showed that the said structure had 25 indicators, 8 components in 3 dimensions of platforms, obstacles and strategies. In this study, platforms were included three educational, organizational, and individual components, obstacles were included two educational and managerial components and strategies were included three managerial, organizational, and educational components. Finally, the pattern of digital literacy in order to promoting the level of professional competence of teachers was designed.Conclusion: The results of this study have practical implications for managers and officials of the education system. According to the results of this study, they can take an effective step towards promoting the level of professional competence through improving digital literacy. Therefore, the results showed that digital literacy is one of the factors that equip teachers with different skills.
Social Sciences
Masoumeh Najafi; Soudabeh AzadolMolki; Ashraf Alsadat Hosseini Mirsafi
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Purpose: Considering the importance of information literacy in today's era and the need to include it in the curriculum of students, the present research was conducted with the aim of designing a model and validating of information literacy in the curriculum of senior school students.Methodology: This ...
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Purpose: Considering the importance of information literacy in today's era and the need to include it in the curriculum of students, the present research was conducted with the aim of designing a model and validating of information literacy in the curriculum of senior school students.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative-quantitative). The research population in the qualitative section was the experts of curriculum and information literacy education of Tehran city in the 2023 year, which number of 16 people of experts (according to the principle of theoretical saturation) were selected as a sample with using the purposeful sampling method. The research population in the quantitative section was the senior school students of Tehran city in the 2022-2023 academic years, which number of 400 people of them were selected as a sample with using the multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research tools were semi-structured interviews by experts and completion of researcher-made questionnaires by students, which whose psychometric indicators were confirmed. The data were analyzed by coding methods and exploratory factor analysis.Findings: Based on the findings of coding interviews for information literacy in the curriculum of students were identified 40 components in 7 dimensions including information access and retrieval, information evaluation, information organization and combination, information ethical considerations, information communication and sharing, cognitive factors of information literacy learning and motivational factors of information literacy learning. Also, the results of the exploratory factor analysis showed that 13 components could explain 81% and all 40 components could explain 100% of the variance of information literacy in the curriculum of students, the factor loading of all 40 components was above 0.70 and information literacy in the curriculum of students on the 7 dimensions and each dimension on its components had a direct and significant effect (P<0.001). Therefore, the designed model of information literacy in the curriculum of students was valid.Conclusion: Based on the results of this study, in order to improve information literacy in the curriculum of students it is possible to provide the basis for realizing the identified dimensions and components.
Social Sciences
Narges Aboutalebi; Saeed Saffarian Hamedani; maryam Taghvaee Yazdi; Tayebeh Tajari
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Purpose: Having a futurology approach in curriculum designing can create a competitive advantage for higher education. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting the workplace curriculum model with a futurology approach in the Iran's higher education system.Methodology: ...
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Purpose: Having a futurology approach in curriculum designing can create a competitive advantage for higher education. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting the workplace curriculum model with a futurology approach in the Iran's higher education system.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive-survey. The current research population was all managers, professors and experts in the fields of higher education management, educational management, knowledge management, curriculum planning and future studies of Farhangian University of Mazandaran province, totaling 452 people, who were selected by total sampling method. The data were collected with a researcher-made questionnaire of the workplace curriculum with a futurology approach in the higher education system which its validity and reliability were evaluated as appropriate and were analyzed with the methods of exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling in SPSS and Smart PLS software.Findings: The findings showed that the workplace curriculum model with a futurology approach in the Iran's higher education system had 42 indicators and 22 components in 6 categories. The category of causal conditions includes the components of the need to pay attention to environmental factors, the need to pay attention to organizational factors, the need to pay attention to individual factors, the need to pay attention to social and cultural factors and the need to pay attention to technological changes, the category of main phenomenon includes the curriculum component of the workplace curriculum with a futurology approach, the category of contextual conditions includes the components of the curriculum fit with environmental, organizational and individual goals and characteristics, the correct evaluation process, the creation of a learning organization, the expansion of the inclusion of workplace curriculum and the organizational discipline, the category of intervening conditions includes the components of policies, incomplete understanding of the concept of workplace planning and educational technology, the category of strategies includes the components of the application of virtual education in the development of workplace curriculum planning, environmental science and future-oriented needs statistics in the development of curriculum planning for the workplace, creating flexibility in programs and customizing the workplace curriculum, developing a collaborative learning mechanism with an emphasis on decentralization and strengthening organizational culture and adaptability among the different levels of identity and the category of the outcomes includes the components of developing employees' competencies, realizing educational effectiveness and realizing educational satisfaction. The factor loading of all the categories and components was higher than 0.70, the average variance extracted was higher than 0.50 and the combined reliability of all of them was higher than 0.70. In addition, the workplace curriculum model with a futurology approach in the Iran's higher education system had a good fit and, in this model, the causal conditions on the workplace curriculum with a futurology approach, contextual conditions, intervening conditions and the workplace curriculum with a futurology approach on the strategies and strategies on the consequences and each of the categories on their components had a direct and significant effect (P<0.05).Conclusion: According to the workplace curriculum model with a futurology approach in the Iran's higher education system, planning based on it is necessary to improve the curriculum situation.
