Psychology
Maryam Mahvash; Mohammad Yamini; Hossein Mahdian
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Purpose: The test anxiety has a great negative impact on other academic and non-academic variables, therefore, should look for educational and therapeutic solutions to reduce students' test anxiety. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of mental-grammatical ...
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Purpose: The test anxiety has a great negative impact on other academic and non-academic variables, therefore, should look for educational and therapeutic solutions to reduce students' test anxiety. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of mental-grammatical imagery education and uncertainty tolerance education on students' test anxiety.Methodology: This was a semi-experimental study with two experimental groups and one control group, with a pre-test, post-test and two-month follow-up plan. In this study, the research population was all 12th grade female students of governmental and non-governmental schools in Bojnourd city in the 2022-2023 academic years. The sample of the present study was 45 students who were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly replaced in three equal groups (15 people in each group). The experimental group received 12 sessions of 90-minute with the mental-grammatical imagery education method, and the second experimental group received 9 sessions of 90-minute with the uncertainty tolerance education method based on the cognitive behavioral approach, and during this time, the control group did not receive any training. The data were collected with Sarason's test anxiety questionnaire (1985) and analyzed with the methods of analysis variance with repeated measure and Bonferroni's post hoc test in SPSS-25 software.Findings: The findings showed that there was no significant difference between the groups in terms of reducing students' test anxiety (P>0.05). In addition, both methods of mental-grammatical imagery and uncertainty tolerance education significantly reduced students' test anxiety in the post-test and follow-up stages (P<0.001).Conclusion: Considering the effectiveness of both methods of mental-grammatical imagery education and uncertainty tolerance education in reducing students' test anxiety, school counselors and psychologists can use mental-grammatical imagery education and uncertainty tolerance education methods to reduce test anxiety.
Akram Ansari; Vahid Fallah; Mohammad Salehi
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Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of the impact of culture shock on the interpersonal relationships of physical education students in Mazandaran province in order to present a model.
Methodology: The research method was practical in terms of purpose and quantitative in terms of data ...
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Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of the impact of culture shock on the interpersonal relationships of physical education students in Mazandaran province in order to present a model.
Methodology: The research method was practical in terms of purpose and quantitative in terms of data collection and was carried out in a field form. The statistical population of this research included all the physical education students of the free and state universities of Mazandaran province, who were selected as a statistical sample according to the criteria of the minimum sample size required in the factor analysis, based on stratified random method. In order to collect the data, the questionnaire made by the cultural shock researcher and the interpersonal relations questionnaire of Mahmoudi et al. (2015) were used. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed in terms of content and structure. Composite reliability, divergent and convergent validity were used for the reliability test. Also, in order to analyze the data, spss and Amos software were used.
Findings: According to the results of culture shock, there is a significant negative direct effect on the interpersonal relationships of Mazandaran university students (Sig=0.001, t=-6.896) with the path coefficient (β=-0.703).
Conclusion: The results showed that the interpersonal stress component, the cultural distance component, the interpersonal distance component, the sadness component, the moral distance component, the psychological-physical pressure component and the confusion component have a significant negative effect on students' interpersonal relationships, but the effect of the rejection component Stress, anxiety, and fatigue were not significant on students' interpersonal relationships.
Parvin Shayesteh nia; Hamid Shafizadeh; Nader Soleimani
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Purpose: The link of school and society can play an important role in preparing students for life in society. Therefore, the aim of this study was identifying the dimensions and components of the school and society link pattern based on the grounded theory.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose ...
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Purpose: The link of school and society can play an important role in preparing students for life in society. Therefore, the aim of this study was identifying the dimensions and components of the school and society link pattern based on the grounded theory.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The research population was professors and experts, policy makers of the Ministry of Education, managers of the General Departments of Education and schools managers in the 2021-2022 academic year. The sample size based on the principle of theoretical saturation was determined 18 people, who this number were selected by purposeful and snowball sampling methods. The data were collected with a demographic information form and a semi-structured interview, which the validity of the interviews was confirmed by triangulation and peer review methods and its reliability was calculated with a Cohen's Kappa coefficient 0.79. The data were analyzed by open, axial and selective coding method based on the grounded theory in MAXQDA software version 2021.Findings: The findings showed that for the school and society link pattern were identified 42 subcategories in 15 main categories; So that in the central phenomenon there were one main category of school and society link in Iran, in the causal conditions there were two main categories of structural factors and content factors, in contextual conditions there were four main categories of dominant structural focus, dominant organizational culture, accelerated and untimely managerial changes and intellectual and attitudinal factors, in the intervening conditions there were three main categories of role of virtual space and social networks, role of councils in the education system and role of the family, in the strategies there were three main categories of policy making in the field of attracting civil participation, appropriate governance of the educational system and re-engineering and refining the structure of the educational system and in the consequences there were two main categories of individual consequences and social consequences. According to the identified dimensions and components for the school and society link pattern, a pattern based on the grounded theory was drawn.Conclusion: The identified dimensions and components in this research for the school and society link pattern have many practical implications for the officials, managers and planners of the Ministry of Education. They in order to increase and improve the link school and society can provide the basis for the emergence and realization of the identified dimensions and components in this research.
Zahra Emami Khotbesara; Hossein Mahdian; Abolfazl Bakhshipoor
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Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of academic vitality training and psychological capital on the academic engagement of female students.Methodology: This research was a semi-experimental type with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. ...
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Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of academic vitality training and psychological capital on the academic engagement of female students.Methodology: This research was a semi-experimental type with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of this research included all secondary school girls of the 7th district of Mashhad in the academic year of 2020. 45 people who had a lower score in the dependent variable and were willing to participate in training sessions were selected as a sample and were randomly divided into two experimental groups and one control group (15 people in each group). One week after the pre-test for all three groups, one experimental group was exposed to the independent variable of academic vitality training and the second experimental group was exposed to psychological capital training, and the control group did not receive any training and then from all The groups were taken after the test. Rio (2013) standard academic engagement questionnaire was used to collect data. In this research, in order to investigate the differences between groups, multivariate and univariate repeated measure variance analysis was used, taking into account the intragroup (test) and intergroup (group membership) factors.Findings: The results showed that teaching academic vitality and psychological capital increases academic engagement in female students. The results showed that there is no significant difference between the effectiveness of academic vitality training and psychological capital on academic engagement.Conclusion: According to the findings, it can be concluded that academic vitality training and psychological capital are effective in increasing academic engagement and there is no difference between their effectiveness.
Psychology
Fariba Ghalenovy; Seyed Amir Amin Yazdi; Hossein Karsheki; Maryam Bordbar
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Purpose: One of the most important dimensions of thinking is scientific thinking, which can play an effective role in improving the academic conditions of students. Therefore, the purpose of this study was normalization and validation a tool for measuring scientific thinking in Iranian students.Methodology: ...
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Purpose: One of the most important dimensions of thinking is scientific thinking, which can play an effective role in improving the academic conditions of students. Therefore, the purpose of this study was normalization and validation a tool for measuring scientific thinking in Iranian students.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from survey type. The research population was all high school students in Mashhad city in the 2020-21 academic years. The sample size based on Cochran's formula and with 10% attrition was calculated 648 people, which this number were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research tool was a Liang et al scientific thinking questionnaire (2006), and the resulting data were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis in SPSS 26 software.Findings: The findings showed that among the 24 items of the scientific thinking questionnaire, the content validity index of all items was approved because it was higher than 0.70, and only the content validity ratio of 4 items was inappropriate because it was lower than 0.50, and these items were revised and modified. Also, the scientific thinking questionnaire had 24 items in 6 components of using from scientific methods, using from scientific theories and laws, social contexts and culture, creativity and visualization, observation and inference, and practice; So that the factor load of all items was higher than 0.60, the average extracted variance of all components was higher than 0.50, and the Cronbach and combined reliability of all components was higher than 0.70. In addition, the reliability of the total scientific thinking questionnaire was obtained with the Cronbach's alpha method 0.86 and with the combined method 0.93.Conclusion: The results showed that the a tool for measuring scientific thinking in students has a good validity and experts and educational planners can use this tool to measure the level of scientific thinking of students and based on its components design and implement programs to improve and promote scientific thinking.
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.
Zeynab Elahinezhad; samereh shojaei; Mahmood reza cheraghali; Mahmood reza mostaghimi
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Purpose: The purpose of this research was to design a social responsibility model for the center of intellectual education for children and adolescents.
Methodology: In terms of the purpose of this research, it is applied-developmental and is placed in the group of mixed research. The statistical population ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this research was to design a social responsibility model for the center of intellectual education for children and adolescents.
Methodology: In terms of the purpose of this research, it is applied-developmental and is placed in the group of mixed research. The statistical population in this research had two parts; in the qualitative part of the statistical population, there were managers and social responsibility experts of the Social Security Organization. In the qualitative phase, interviews were conducted with 11 academic experts and 14 government managers. In a small part of the simple random sampling method, 124 managers and specialists of the intellectual development center for children and adolescents of the country were selected as samples. In this research, semi-structured interviews with experts were used in the qualitative part. During the interview, all the comments of the interviewees were recorded and stored, and their comments were converted into text along with the researcher's observations and impressions. After reaching the saturation point in the comments provided by the interviewees, the primary data was given to MAXQDA version 10 software and with the help of this software; primary codes were created and then based on the secondary coding rule.
Findings: By analyzing the interviews in the first stage, 340 primary codes were obtained and 21 central codes were extracted in selective coding. According to the model in the current research, it seems that the components of participation and interaction and identification of opportunities and possibilities as causal factors based on the data theory of the foundation on transparency and organizational justice, as well as the quality of life and helping to preserve resources are effective and from this The way affects public welfare and job security. The results of the model still show that the components of public welfare and job security cause social responsibility. Based on the indicators obtained in this research and according to the weight obtained in the coding stages, the indicators of attention to the needs of employees and society, promoting well-being Compliance with ethical issues, professional training for welfare, protection of rights and benefits, protection of the environment, equal access to job training, fight against gender and ethnic discrimination, creation of labor justice based on existing laws, rightful rights and benefits For employees, consultation and cooperation among family members, favorable social relations, existing gap, improvement of relations between employer and employees, were able to assign the most weight to themselves.
Conclusion: Based on the findings of the research, the concepts of recruitment of human resources, organizational justice and the social consequences of the social responsibility of the employer have the highest frequency and the value of the determining factor of the core code of legality is higher than other core codes.
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.
Ehsan Ahmadi sarkhini; Mohammad Ali Chitsaz; Nabiollah Ider
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of socio-cultural contexts on the underdevelopment of the target community of the Relief Committee in the east of Hormozgan province. The method of the present study was quantitative and survey. The statistical population was all clients and individuals ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of socio-cultural contexts on the underdevelopment of the target community of the Relief Committee in the east of Hormozgan province. The method of the present study was quantitative and survey. The statistical population was all clients and individuals who received support services from the relief committee in the cities of Minab, Rudan, Jask, Sirik and Bashagard. The total number of people covered was 108,714, which according to Cochran's formula, 384 people were selected by simple random sampling. The data collection tool was a questionnaire. Data analysis method was regression with SPSS software. The results showed; Traditionalism has a positive effect on underdevelopment. Lack of a culture of risk-taking has a positive effect on underdevelopment. The institutionalization of the culture of dependence has a positive effect on underdevelopment. Chronic destiny has a positive effect on underdevelopment.socio-cultural barriers to development
Psychology
Zahra Nasiri Karbasdehi; Mohammad Kazem Fakhri; Hossein Ali Gnanadzadegan
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Receive: 2023/05/14Accept: 2023/08/12Published: 2023/09/21 Purpose: Generalized anxiety disorder can have many negative psychological consequences. As a result, the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness training ...
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Receive: 2023/05/14Accept: 2023/08/12Published: 2023/09/21 Purpose: Generalized anxiety disorder can have many negative psychological consequences. As a result, the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness training on distress tolerance, resilience and emotion regulation in students with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was a semi-experimental with a pretest, posttest and two-month follow-up design with a control group. The research population consisted of secondary high school female students with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder in one district of Tehran city, which number of 30 people of them after reviewing the inclusion criteria were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly replaced in two equal groups (each group 15 people). The experimental groups received 8 sessions of 90 minutes with method of Kabat-Zinn's mindfulness training (2003) and during this time the control group did not receive training. The dara were collected by short scale of generalized anxiety disorder (Spitzer et al., 2006), distress tolerance scale (Simons and Gaher, 2005), resilience scale (Connor and Davidson, 2003) and emotion regulation questionnaire (Gross and John, 2003) and were analyzed by methods of variance analysis with repeated measurements and LSD post hoc test in SPSS software.Findings: The findings of the present study showed that mindfulness training led to significant increased the distress tolerance, resilience and emotional reappraisal and significant reduced emotional suppression in students with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, and the results remained in the follow-up phase (P<0.001).Conclusion: According to the results of this study, health professionals and therapists can use the method of mindfulness training along with other methods to improve health-related characteristics such as distress tolerance, resilience and emotion regulation.
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.
Ladan Gooran Savadkohi; Mitra Kamyabi; Aboutaleb Saadati Shamir
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This research was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of metacognitive skills training on increasing the fluid intelligence of first secondary school students of Shahid schools. The current research was a semi-experimental research with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. ...
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This research was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of metacognitive skills training on increasing the fluid intelligence of first secondary school students of Shahid schools. The current research was a semi-experimental research with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The research population included the students of Shahid 1st secondary schools in the 3rd district of Tehran in the academic year of 1402-1403. Using available sampling method, 30 students of the studied community were selected and randomly replaced into two experimental groups (15 people with metacognitive skills training package) and a control group. The experimental group received metacognitive skills training in 8 sessions of 90 minutes each. To collect data, metacognitive skills training (Flaval, 1999) and fluid intelligence test (Saadati Shamir and Zhatkesh, 1401) were used. The results of covariance analysis showed that the metacognitive skills training package increased fluid intelligence in students aged 13 to 15 years. Teaching metacognitive skills to children in the first years of high school increases their perceptive, reasoning, computational, working memory, auditory, visual memory, processing speed and one-dimensional and multi-dimensional attention and increases their self-sufficiency to achieve higher goals. and can empower them in various cognitive aspects and prepare them for a better and richer future. Also, students who receive more and more accurate metacognitive skills training receive more social support, so they perform better in the five components of skilled fluid intelligence, including perception, reasoning, memory, attention, and processing speed, and as a result, have a better academic status. And they have a more positive attitude about education, and they are generally more satisfied with the school. Therefore, self-esteem through the promotion of fluid cognitive abilities leads to an increase in his academic success and resilience.
Nasrin Boroughani; Zolfaghar Rashidi; Mohammad Naghi Imani
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Purpose: This article aims to investigate the effective factors and consequences of lean management in the country's higher education system.Methodology: The research method is fundamental-applied in terms of its purpose, and in terms of the method of collecting information, it is a part of mixed research ...
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Purpose: This article aims to investigate the effective factors and consequences of lean management in the country's higher education system.Methodology: The research method is fundamental-applied in terms of its purpose, and in terms of the method of collecting information, it is a part of mixed research (quantitative and qualitative). The statistical population in the qualitative section included higher education experts. To determine the samples of this research and to determine this group of experts, a non-random sampling method was used with the number of 20 people. The second group of the statistical population of this research included all the managers and assistants of Azad University units in Tehran who are working in the number of 1190 people, using stratified random sampling method and Cochran's formula, 291 people were selected as subjects. The data collection tool was interview in the qualitative part and researcher-made questionnaire based on a 5-option scale in the quantitative part. Validity of the questionnaire in terms of form and content through several experts, convergent validity was extracted by calculating the average variance. Cronbach's alpha, average variance extracted (AVE), root matrix AVE, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and confirmatory factor analysis using Lisrel software were used for data analysis.Findings: The results of the research findings, by examining the research questions on determining the dimensions, components and key, effective, effective indicators of the lean management adaptation model with the country's higher education, showed that among the 58 existing indicators (items), 9 main components could be identified.Conclusion: Considering the results of organizational factors as causal conditions, it was considered that the effective components include knowledge management, pure leadership and academic organizational atmosphere, the consequential components include innovative performance, sustainable competitive advantage and educational quality.
Psychology
Seyed Mahdi Hoseininejad
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Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the impact of talent management measures on teacher succession, considering the mediating role of talent retention among Alevi school teachers.Methodology: Analytical and socio-statistical survey research method includes 112 Alevi school ...
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Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the impact of talent management measures on teacher succession, considering the mediating role of talent retention among Alevi school teachers.Methodology: Analytical and socio-statistical survey research method includes 112 Alevi school teachers in Tehran. In this research, a standard questionnaire was used to collect information. Data analysis has been done at the level of descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS and Smart PLS statistical software.Findings: The results of the research showed that talent management measures have a significant effect on teacher succession and talent retention mediates this relationship.Conclusion: Today, talent management has become a very important and key issue in the field of human resources, and organizations have realized that attracting and retaining the best people can be considered as the main competitive advantage and play an effective role in improving people's performance.the main competitive advantage and play an effective role in improving people's performance.
Social Sciences
Fatemeh Esmaeelpour Darimi; Esmaeel Jafari; Amirreza Asnafi
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Purpose: Examining the effective factors on the social role of the higher education system can help to improve it. As a result, the aim of this research was identifying and leveling the effective factors on the social role of the university system based on interpretive structural equations.
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Purpose: Examining the effective factors on the social role of the higher education system can help to improve it. As a result, the aim of this research was identifying and leveling the effective factors on the social role of the university system based on interpretive structural equations.
Methodology: This study was in terms of purpose applied and in terms of implementation method was cross-sectional. The research population in the qualitative section was documents and texts related to research and experts in this field. The numbers of 50 documents and texts were selected by purposive sampling method and numbers of 10 experts were selected as samples by purposive sampling method. The data were collected by taking notes from documents and texts and a survey from experts about the researcher-made questionnaire and were analyzed by the interpretive structural equation method in PLS software.
Findings: The findings showed that the effective factors on the social role of the higher education system were included 11 factors of challenging the university curriculum, promoting forms of social participation, preparing students for public jobs, active citizenship curriculum, teaching and learning social responsibility, research-oriented, social projects, cultivating competent people, eligible citizens development, attention to the views of social stakeholders in the university system and social sensitivity education. The results of interpretive structural equations showed that the factor of promoting forms of social participation was on the first level, the factors of research-oriented and cultivating competent people was on the second level, the factor of teaching and learning social responsibility was on the third level, the factors of challenging the university curriculum and preparing students for public jobs was on the fourth level, the factors of active citizenship curriculum, attention to the views of social stakeholders in the university system and social sensitivity education was on the fifth level, the factor eligible citizens development was on the sixth level and the factor of social projects was on the seventh level, and based on the interpretive structural model of the effective factors on the social role of the university system was designed.
Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, higher education planners and specialists can use the results of this study and use the identified effective factors on the social role of the university system to improve the state of the university and gain a competitive advantage.
Mohammad Ali Nikbakhsh; Saeed Esmaili
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One of the methods of creating this citizen-centered view and the formation of democracy is to create a bridge between citizens and the government to involve citizens in the policy-making process. Therefore, the principle of citizens' participation in the policy-making process is a desirable phenomenon, ...
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One of the methods of creating this citizen-centered view and the formation of democracy is to create a bridge between citizens and the government to involve citizens in the policy-making process. Therefore, the principle of citizens' participation in the policy-making process is a desirable phenomenon, but it is not clear how to create the conditions for such a situation. Therefore, in this research, the factors affecting citizens' participation in the public policy-making process in the Ministry of Cooperation, Labor and Social Welfare were identified. After examining the theoretical foundations and previous studies in the field of citizen participation in the public policy making process, based on the studies, 16 effective factors were identified. Then, these components were provided to the experts in the form of a three-stage Delphi questionnaire. According to the analysis of three rounds of Delphi, 1 component was integrated in other components and 5 components were also removed and finally 15 components were approved by the experts. In the following, using the expert opinions of 80 experts and specialists in the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, the factors were categorized and analyzed statistically, and the analysis of the results using the exploratory factor analysis technique showed that 15 components can be He categorized under 5 factors. The main factors identified included communication and communication channels, support for citizens' representatives and elected representatives, setting laws and regulations, encouraging and motivating citizens, and reforms in the government structure.
Psychology
Kamalaldin Yarali; Tayebeh Tajari; Maryam Safari
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Purpose: Paying attention to entrepreneurial teaching is very important in curriculum elements, and accordingly, the purpose of this study was to analyzing the curriculum elements of entrepreneurial teaching in the field of humanities sciences in Iran's higher education.Methodology: This study in terms ...
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Purpose: Paying attention to entrepreneurial teaching is very important in curriculum elements, and accordingly, the purpose of this study was to analyzing the curriculum elements of entrepreneurial teaching in the field of humanities sciences in Iran's higher education.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of execution method was qualitative. The population of this study includes six groups of business startups and establishment of knowledge-based companies, cooperation with entrepreneurial intermediary institutions, entrepreneurship education and teaching, authoring articles, books and guidance or counseling of dissertations and thesis in the field of entrepreneurship, specialist of curriculum and managers of planning higher education in Iranian universities in the academic years of 2020-21. The samples were selected according to the principle of theoretical saturation and with the purposeful sampling method, which their number was 25 people. The tool of the current research was a semi-structured interview which whose validity and reliability were checked and confirmed. The data were analyzed by the coding method based on the grounded theory in MAXQDA software.Findings: The findings of the present research showed that the curriculum elements of entrepreneurial teaching in the field of humanities sciences in Iran's higher education had 216 concepts in 47 components and 6 categories. The category of causal conditions includes 8 components and 33 concepts, the category of background conditions includes 8 components and 36 concepts, the category of intervening conditions includes 9 components and 28 concepts, the core category includes 5 components and 39 concepts, the category of strategies includes 12 components and 54 concepts, and the category of consequences includes 5 components and 26 concepts.Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, experts and planners curriculum can take an effective step towards improving the curriculum elements of entrepreneurial teaching in the field of humanities sciences of higher education.
Psychology
Khadijeh Iravan; Leila Iravani; Masouma Moghimi Firozabad
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of problem solving training on the quality of life and responsibility in students of District 2 of Tehran.Methodology: The current research was semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test with a control group. The studied population ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of problem solving training on the quality of life and responsibility in students of District 2 of Tehran.Methodology: The current research was semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test with a control group. The studied population included the students of the 2nd education district of the 2nd district in the academic year 97-98. From the target population, 30 people were selected by purposeful sampling according to the entry and exit criteria and placed in two experimental groups (20 people and control (20 people)) Both groups were implemented. Then the experimental groups were given problem-solving training for ten sessions. During this period, no intervention was done on the control group, and finally, the post-test was taken from the experimental and control groups.Findings: The results of data analysis using the multivariate covariance method showed that the quality of life and responsibility of girls in the experimental group increased significantly after training compared to the control group.Conclusion: Therefore, problem solving training has been effective in increasing the quality of life and responsibility.
Social Sciences
Amin Amini
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Purpose: In this study, an attempt has been made to evaluate the impact of the quality of work life on the organizational effectiveness of employees, considering the effect of emotional intelligence on decision-making.Method: In terms of its method, the present research was a survey research and in terms ...
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Purpose: In this study, an attempt has been made to evaluate the impact of the quality of work life on the organizational effectiveness of employees, considering the effect of emotional intelligence on decision-making.Method: In terms of its method, the present research was a survey research and in terms of its goal, it was an applied research. The statistical population of this research was the employees of knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology in Tehran. The sampling method was based on simple random sampling. A standard questionnaire was used to collect the required information. This research is based on structural equations and partial least squares method and Smart PLS software are used for data analysis.Findings: The results of this research indicate that determining the impact of the quality of work life on the organizational effectiveness of employees has become significant.Conclusion: Based on the findings, the results showed that the effect of the quality of work life on emotional intelligence has become significant. In addition, the results showed that the moderating effect variable of the emotional intelligence process on the relationship between the quality of work life and organizational effectiveness has become significant.
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.
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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.
Jalal Karamad; Vahid Fallah; Laden Salimi
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of teaching narrative philosophy on epistemological beliefs and emotional self-awareness in adolescents.Methodology: In terms of purpose and research method, the research method was a quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test design with a control ...
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of teaching narrative philosophy on epistemological beliefs and emotional self-awareness in adolescents.Methodology: In terms of purpose and research method, the research method was a quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test design with a control and follow-up group. The statistical population was 30 students who were matched in two experimental and control groups using stepwise cluster sampling. The experimental group spent 8 90-minute sessions teaching philosophy, and the control group remained on the waiting list. In order to collect data, Biles (2009) Epistemological Beliefs Questionnaire and Grant et al. (2002) used the emotional self-awareness questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics (repeated measures analysis of variance) using SPSS-V22 software.Findings: Findings showed that the method (teaching philosophy in a narrative method) had an effect on emotional self-awareness scores so that the experimental group (teaching philosophy in a narrative method) and compared to the control group increased emotional self-awareness scores.Conclusion: The results showed that teaching philosophy to narration is effective in epistemological beliefs in adolescents. Also, teaching philosophy according to narration is effective in adolescentschr(chr('39')39chr('39')) emotional self-awareness. Therefore, it is suggested that teaching philosophy be included in the studentschr(chr('39')39chr('39')) curriculum.
Nematollah Mosapour; Zeinab khaton Afrasyabi; maryam Safarnavadeh
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Purpose: The aim of the present study was to design a model to improve the performance of math teachers in order to improve the performance of eighth grade students in the Thames International Examinations.Method: This research is an exploratory research in terms of purpose and in terms of result, it ...
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Purpose: The aim of the present study was to design a model to improve the performance of math teachers in order to improve the performance of eighth grade students in the Thames International Examinations.Method: This research is an exploratory research in terms of purpose and in terms of result, it is a developmental research. The study population included all faculty members (full time) of the curriculum in public and private universities in Tehran and curriculum planners of the eighth grade education textbooks and mathematics teachers of Shiraz in 1396, which by non-method 20 people were randomly selected as the sample size and referred to them in person. A questionnaire was used to collect data, which validity was examined by experts and reliability by Delphi method. In order to analyze the data from the approach Qualitative and structural equations and PLS2 software were used.Findings: The findings showed that the proposed model includes components of teaching (teaching), teaching planning, guidance and counseling, management and educational leadership and assessment of learners, which improves the performance of math teachers in order to improve eighth grade students in exams. International Thames have an impact.Conclusion: The results of model fit indicate the suitability of the model.
Social Sciences
Afsaneh Saber garakani; Mahnaz Parmoz; fariba hanifi
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Objective: Curriculum quality plays an important role in academic success and performance. As a result, the aim of this study was investigating the status of evaluation components of curriculum quality in the elementary schools in Tehran city.Method: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in ...
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Objective: Curriculum quality plays an important role in academic success and performance. As a result, the aim of this study was investigating the status of evaluation components of curriculum quality in the elementary schools in Tehran city.Method: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative-quantitative). The population of the qualitative section was the curriculum experts and professors of Tehran city, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 12 people of them were selected by purposive sampling method. The population of the quantitative section was male and female teachers of public elementary schools of Tehran city in the 2021-2022 academic years with number 23593 people, which according to the Krejcie and Morgan table number of 377 people of them were selected by cluster sampling method. The research tools were semi-structured interviews and researcher-made questionnaires, which validity of the interviews was confirmed by triangulation method and its reliability was calculated by the coefficient of agreement between two coders 0.83, and the face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the opinion of experts and its reliability was calculated by Cronbach's alpha method 0.85. Data were analyzed with open, axial and selective coding methods in MAXQDA software and one-sample t-test in SPSS software.Results: The findings showed that evaluation of curriculum quality in the elementary schools has 108 indicators in 23 components and 6 dimensions were included systematic approach of evaluation of curriculum quality (with 4 components of strategic thinking, generalizability of goals, receiving corrective feedback and facilitating the teaching and learning process), qualitative evaluation of activities ( with 3 components of evaluation of motivational activities, evaluation of practical activities and evaluation of curriculum activities), quality of modern facilities and technologies (with 3 components of cultural and sports facilities, educational facilities and welfare facilities), quality of structural factors (with 4 components of lack of resources and inappropriate distribution, weak foresight, individual and organizational communication and lack of work discipline), quality assessment of curriculum principles (with 4 components of flexibility,
Social Sciences
maryam ghaderi sheykhi abadi; fakhrossadat Nasiri; Afshin Afzali; mahmoud taajobi
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Purpose: Synergistic leadership style plays an important role in implementing quality standards in schools. The purpose of the current research was to construct and standardize the synergistic leadership questionnaire in the managers of technical and vocational schools.Methodology: The quantitative research ...
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Purpose: Synergistic leadership style plays an important role in implementing quality standards in schools. The purpose of the current research was to construct and standardize the synergistic leadership questionnaire in the managers of technical and vocational schools.Methodology: The quantitative research method was correlation studies. The research population was the teachers of technical and vocational schools in Tehran province in the academic year of 2021-2022. With the proportional stratified random sampling method based on gender and population classes and based on Cochran's formula, a sample 364 teachers were selected. To collect data, the 20-item researcher-made tool of synergistic leadership and the organizational ambidexterity tool Jansen(2006) were used. In order to investigate the factor structure and construct validity of the questionnaire, the techniques of content validity ratio, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and convergent and divergent validity were used, and to investigate the reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbach's alpha method and composite reliability were used by SPSS25 and LISREL10.30 software.Findings: Based on the findings, 4 factors and 20 items were designed and create to measure the synergistic leadership of educational managers of technical and vocational schools. The content validity of the tool(0.7585) was confirmed based on the opinion of experts. In the exploratory factor analysis, four factors of organizational structure, extra-organizational factors, leadership behavior and attitudes, beliefs and values were observed with a special value higher than one, which were able to explain 71% of the variance of synergistic leadership. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the fit indices of the questionnaire are suitable and desirable and the questionnaire has good validity. Also, based on the optimal explained variance percentage of 63% in the second-order confirmatory factor analysis, the power of the questionnaire in explaining the variance of synergistic leadership was confirmed. Convergent validity(0.6304) and divergent validity(0.794), Cronbach's alpha(0.936) and composite reliability(0.95) of the questionnaire also indicated the appropriate validity and reliability of the synergistic leadership tool.Conclusion: Researchers can use the questionnaire designed to measure synergistic leadership and improve leadership skills in educational managers of technical and vocational schools as a standard tool.
Psychology
ataolah mahmodi; Yahiya Yarahmadi; omid moradi
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Considering the change in teaching methods from teacher-centered to student-centered, and the existence of a gap in student-centered teaching models, this research was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of the reverse learning model and cooperative learning on the academic engagement ...
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Considering the change in teaching methods from teacher-centered to student-centered, and the existence of a gap in student-centered teaching models, this research was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of the reverse learning model and cooperative learning on the academic engagement of secondary school students. The present research method was semi-experimental in terms of practical nature and in terms of the intervention method. The research population was 60 secondary school students of Bukan city, who were selected in two intervention groups and one control group. The research tools included reverse learning package (Mahmodi et al., 2023), GI cooperative learning package (Kazemi et al., 2022) and Rio academic engagement questionnaire (2013) were used, and multivariate covariance analysis was used to analyze the effectiveness. Based on the results of the educational intervention, the pattern of reverse learning and collaborative learning has a positive and significant effect on students' academic engagement (sig<0.05). Also, the findings showed that there is a significant difference between the effectiveness of the reverse learning educational program and cooperative learning-based education on students' academic engagement only in the cognitive engagement component (sig<0.05). Therefore, it can be concluded that the originality of the teaching method based on reverse learning can be one of the reasons for the effectiveness of reverse teaching compared to cooperative education, especially in the component of cognitive engagement.