Social Sciences
Moosa Moghadas; Parivash Jafari; Mohammad Noor Rahmani; Nader Gholi Ghoorchian
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Purpose: Positive leadership among school principals can create a competitive advantage for the education system. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model for promoting positive leadership among school principals.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was ...
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Purpose: Positive leadership among school principals can create a competitive advantage for the education system. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model for promoting positive leadership among school principals.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from survey type. The statistical population of this study was all 950 school principals in Fars province, which based on Cochran's formula 365 principals by stratified random sampling method were selected as a sample. The data were collected with a demographic information form and a researcher-made questionnaire for promoting positive leadership among school principals (30 items), which its validity and reliability of were assessed as suitable, and for their analysis were used from exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS and AMOS software.Findings: The findings showed that promoting positive leadership among school principals had 30 items in 3 dimensions of individual (11 items), organizational (13 items) and environmental (6 items); So that the factor loading of all 30 items and all dimensions was higher than 0.40, their average extracted variance was higher than 0.50, and their Cronbach's alpha and combination were higher than 0.70. Also, the fit indices of the promoting positive leadership model among school principals indicated the acceptable fit of the mentioned model and this model had a direct significant effect on all three dimensions of individual, organizational and environmental (P<0.001).Conclusion: According to the results of this study, educational systems and schools in order to achieve goals and achieve competitive advantage can provide the basis for improving individual, organizational and environmental of positive leadership among school principals through the items of each of them.
Social Sciences
Zhila Sarmasti; Marjan Kian; Yousef Mahdavi Nasab; Majid Ali Asgari
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pose: 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.
Methodology: ...
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pose: 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.
Methodology: 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.
Findings: 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.
