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.
Fatemeh Razm; Fariba Hafezi; Fatemeh Sadat Marashian; Farah Naderi; Zahra Dashtbozorgi
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Purpose: The academic performance of students is the result of several factors that can affect their academic progress. One of the important issues related to the academic performance of students is academic enthusiasm. In fact, academic enthusiasm provides a basis for the student to enjoy education ...
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Purpose: The academic performance of students is the result of several factors that can affect their academic progress. One of the important issues related to the academic performance of students is academic enthusiasm. In fact, academic enthusiasm provides a basis for the student to enjoy education more and to increase his desire to go to school. Academic enthusiasm is usually used as a motivational structure that reflects the learner's commitment to education. Enthusiasm is an immediate state that includes emotional-motivational aspects and is focused on a specific subject or object or a specific person or behavior. Also, academic enthusiasm is a multidimensional construct. Its cognitive dimension implies the amount of student investment in learning activities such as self-direction and the desire to apply effort in academic affairs and use learning strategies. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of flipped classroom method on information literacy and academic motivation of female high school students.Methodology: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test group and one-month follow-up with control group. The statistical population included all female high school students in Ahvaz in the academic year 2019-2020. A sample of 50 people was purposefully selected and then randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (25 people in each group). The research instruments were the Trails Information Literacy Questionnaire (2007) and the Academic Achievement Scale of Fredericks et al. (2004). The experimental group was provided with 8 sessions of 70-minute training of Bergman and flipped classroom method (2014) and the control group did not receive any intervention to analyze the data using inferential statistical methods (Repeated measures analysis and Bonferroni post hoc test) with Spss24 software used.Findings: The results showed that the flipped classroom method on information literacy and academic motivation of students in the experimental group compared to the control group significantly increased their scores and this effect continued until the one-month follow-up period (P <0.05).Conclusion: Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the flipped classroom teaching method increases academic enthusiasm and information literacy in secondary (second) students, and therefore, the planners of the educational system should introduce and explain more about this method to make it more useful for teachers in the teaching-learning process provide.
