Research Article (Mixed)
Efat Aslani; Reza Vala; Fattah Nazem
Abstract
Purpose: The aim of this study was to provide a model of entrepreneurship-based curriculum in secondary school.Methodology: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and integrated (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of implementation method. The research population in the qualitative section ...
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to provide a model of entrepreneurship-based curriculum in secondary school.Methodology: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and integrated (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of implementation method. The research population in the qualitative section included experts in the field of entrepreneurship in Alborz province in the academic year 2020-2021, in which 14 people were selected based on theoretical saturation method and purposive sampling. The statistical population of the quantitative section also included all secondary school teachers of Alborz planning and entrepreneurship course in the academic year 2020-21 (266 people). The sample size was determined based on Morgan and Georgian table and 154 people were selected by simple random sampling method. The research tool in the qualitative part was semi-structured interviews and in the quantitative part was a researcher-made questionnaire based on the findings of the qualitative part. To validate the qualitative data, a recoding strategy and reliability were obtained with a coding agreement coefficient of 0.86. For quantitative findings, face validity and reliability were obtained by Cronbach's alpha method of 0.82. For data analysis, in the qualitative part, the content analysis method was used with Maxquda18 software and in the quantitative part with exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling with Smart Pls3 software.Findings: The findings of the qualitative section showed that there are 56 sub-themes and 5 main themes (entrepreneurial knowledge, entrepreneurial attitude, entrepreneurial skills and entrepreneurial ability) for the entrepreneurship curriculum. The results of exploratory factor analysis also showed that the first factor, ie the creation of entrepreneurial knowledge explains 6.54 of the total variance, the second factor (entrepreneurial attitude) 7.65%, the third factor (entrepreneurial skills) 12.76% and the fourth factor (entrepreneurial ability) 14.65% explained the total variance of entrepreneurship. The results of structural equation modeling also showed that all identified factors have a significant effect. The GOF criterion also showed that the overall fit of the model was at a desirable level.Conclusion: It can be concluded that a good curriculum should pay attention to the factors of knowledge, skills, attitudes and abilities, and curriculum planners should pay more attention to "creating entrepreneurial ability" and "entrepreneurial skills" in designing the entrepreneurship textbook.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Psychology
Ali PorFalahati; Majid Zargham Hajebi; Alireza AghaYosefi; Mohamad Hosein Zarghami
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to measure the constructive validity of authentic educational courage, which in past researches was not paid much attention to it, and this tool was validated in students and graduates of Iran's higher education system.Methodology: The current research in terms ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to measure the constructive validity of authentic educational courage, which in past researches was not paid much attention to it, and this tool was validated in students and graduates of Iran's higher education system.Methodology: The current research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was cross-sectional. The research population was all the students and graduates of different academic courses of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of the country in 6 provinces of the three northern, middle and southern regions in the 2011-2020 years The sample size of the research subject based on the five dimensions of the mentioned structure, for at least 100 people for each dimension, finally considering the adequacy of the sample size was 636 people who were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling method. The research tool was a demographic information form and a researcher-made questionnaire of authentic educational courage with 23 real final states, which whose psychometric indicators were examined. The data were analyzed and validated by the symmetric rank multidimensional scaling method. The coordinates used to form the distance matrix of the points were taken directly from the output of the network analysis under the lwmds algorithm.Findings: The results of the research showed that according to the opinion of experts and specialists in the authentic educational courage construct, number of 9 states that were not compatible with external objective facts and rational logic were removed from the final questionnaire and finally 23 states out of 32 possible states were kept for it. This tool has five two level dimensions were including dimensions of goal (with two levels of functional learning and mastery learning), cognitive covert action (with two levels without mindfulness/unrealistic evaluation and mindfulness /real evaluation), emotional-functional overt action (with two levels of cowardice and bravely), response continuity (with two levels of non-continuity of response and continuity of response) and originality of response (with two levels of inauthentic/non-integrity of behavior and authentic/integrity of behavior), which whose validity is confirmed by the opinion of experts and specialists and its reliability is supported by the three-dimensional model selected from all the dimension for the exploratory definition of the authentic educational courage construct, after the complete fitting of the mentioned model with the experimental data obtained from the questionnaire items and the membership of each point to one of the levels of the five dimension was confirmed.Conclusion: The results of this study indicated the appropriate validity of the authentic educational courage construct in the studied sample. Therefore, it seems that this tool can be used as a basis for measuring authentic educational courage of learners by experts and researchers, especially in the field of educational sciences.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Social Sciences
Saeed Shafahi; Alireza Chenari; Soghra Afkaneh
Abstract
Purpose: Knowledge management plays an important role in the growth and development of various organizations, especially educational organizations. Therefore, the aim of this study was investigating the impact of future study development indicators of knowledge management in Islamic Azad Universities ...
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Purpose: Knowledge management plays an important role in the growth and development of various organizations, especially educational organizations. Therefore, the aim of this study was investigating the impact of future study development indicators of knowledge management in Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran province.Methodology: The current research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was cross-sectional. The research population was all the members of the faculty and teaching staff of the faculties of educational sciences of the Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran province in the 2022-2023 academic years with number of 210 people. The research sample based on the Krejcie and Morgan table was estimated to be 160 people, who were selected by stratified random sampling method. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire of future study development of knowledge management (67 items), whose face validity was confirmed by academic experts and its reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha method 0.92. Data were analyzed with exploratory factor analysis and structural equations in SPSS version 23 and LISREL version 8.7 software.Findings: The findings showed that the future study development of knowledge management has 67 items in 14 factors and 6 dimensions of organizational structure and information technology infrastructure as causal factors, effective cultural platforms on the development of future study and management strategies as underlying factors, alignment of the university with the changing needs of society and higher education as intervening factors, knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, knowledge application and knowledge policies storage as central phenomenon, transformation in the educational system and the institutionalization of foresight and policy making as strategies and the development of organizational awareness and human resource productivity as consequences; So that all factors had a content validity ratio was higher than 0.70, average variance extracted was higher than 0.5, and Cronbach's reliability was higher than 0.80. The model of future study development indicators of knowledge management in Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran province had a good fit. In this model, each of the factors has a direct and significant effect on the underlying factors, and causal factors had a direct and significant effect on the underlying factors, intervening factors and central phenomenon, underlying factors, intervening factors and central phenomenon had a direct and significant effect on the strategies and underlying factors, central phenomenon and strategies had a direct and significant effect on the consequences (P<0.001).Conclusion: The results of this study can be used by managers and officials of educational systems, especially in the higher education system with the aim of future study development of knowledge management in order to create a competitive advantage.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Social Sciences
Macan Aria Parsa; Mohammad Reza Dalvi Esfahan
Abstract
Purpose: Considering the importance of entrepreneurship in the metaverse era, especially with a future research approach, the present research was conducted with the aim of establishing an entrepreneurial model with a future research approach in the metaverse era in knowledge-based companies in the field ...
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Purpose: Considering the importance of entrepreneurship in the metaverse era, especially with a future research approach, the present research was conducted with the aim of establishing an entrepreneurial model with a future research approach in the metaverse era in knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology.Methodology: The current research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative-quantitative). The research population in the qualitative part was university faculty members and managers of knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology, which number of 17 people of them according to the principle of theoretical saturation were selected as a sample by purposive sampling method. The research population in the quantitative part was the employees and managers of knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology in 29 major cities of Iran country with number of 45331 people, which according to Cochran's formula, the sample size was calculated 184 people, and considering the possible losses, 200 people of them were selected as a sample by available sampling method. The research tools in the qualitative and quantitative parts respectively were the semi-structured interview and researcher-made questionnaire (51 items), which the validity of the interviews was confirmed by the triangulation method and its reliability was calculated by the agreement coefficient method between two coders 0.88, and the face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the opinion of experts and its reliability was confirmed by the Cronbach's alpha method was calculated 0.92. The qualitative part data were analyzed with open, axial and selective coding method based on grounded theory in MAXQDA-2018 software and the quantitative part data were analyzed with exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS-23 and SMART PLS-4 software.Findings: The findings of the qualitative part showed that the establishing an entrepreneurial model with a future research approach in the metaverse era in knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology had 293 concepts, 47 sub categories and 17 main categories in 6 dimensions; So that the causal conditions dimension were included 11 sub categories in the 4 main categories of balance between opportunity exploration and creating competitive advantage, innovation development, growth prospects and benefiting from scientific and strategic approaches, the background conditions dimension were included 6 sub categories in the 2 main categories of regulatory approach and cognitive-normative approach, the intervening conditions dimension were included 6 sub categories in the 3 main categories of country's macro policies and planning in the issues of employment creation and entrepreneurship in the field of information technology, motivational mobility of material and spiritual issues and organizational dynamics, the central phenomenon dimension were included 5 sub categories in the 2 main categories of organizational structure of entrepreneurship and organizational policies of entrepreneurship, the strategies dimension were included 11 sub categories in the 4 main categories of having strategic thinking, forward-looking actions, improving work processes and using of education and knowledge management and the consequences dimension were included 8 sub categories in the 2 main categories of prosperity and flourishing of economy and targeted community development. Also, the findings of the quantitative part showed that there were 32 missing questionnaires and the quantitative section analyzes were performed for 178 people. Based on the analysis, all the dimensions had a factor load and average variance extracted of higher than 0.50 and reliability of higher than 0.70. In addition to that, the establishing an entrepreneurial model with a future research approach in the metaverse era in knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology had an acceptable fit, and in the mentioned model, the causal conditions on central phenomenon; the central phenomenon, background conditions and intervening conditions on strategies and strategies on outcomes had a direct and significant effect (P<0.001).Conclusion: The results of the current research about the establishing an entrepreneurial model with a future research approach in the metaverse era in knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology have many practical implications for experts and planners of knowledge-based companies, especially in the field of information technology, and they based on the results of this research can take an effective step towards job creation and establishing an entrepreneurial in the metaverse era.
Research Article (Quantitative)
Social Sciences
Hadi Abedzadeh; Amineh Ahmadi; mojtaba moazzami
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to analyze the dimensions and components of cyber addiction prevention management in the youth of Zanjan province.Methodology: The qualitative research method is applied research in terms of its purpose, and in terms of the analysis method, it was implemented ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to analyze the dimensions and components of cyber addiction prevention management in the youth of Zanjan province.Methodology: The qualitative research method is applied research in terms of its purpose, and in terms of the analysis method, it was implemented with the paradigm model of Strauss and Corbin (1990-1998). The statistical population includes 15 experts in the field of university education and university elites who were selected by targeted and accessible sampling method. The data collection tool includes two parts, library method and interview (text review and semi-structured interview with experts). For data analysis, open, central and selective coding based on foundational data theory and MAXQDA 2020 software was used.Findings: The results showed that the dimensions and components of cyber addiction prevention management among the youth of Zanjan province were identified and extracted in 5 main categories of foundation data and 15 components, which include causal conditions (family factors, individual factors, attractions of cyberspace and lack of media literacy), contextual conditions (social conditions, cultural environment), intervening conditions (social policies, unemployment and poverty), strategies (social participation, family education, life skills training and cultural and sports facilities) and consequences (improving mental health , increasing the number of employees, management of virtual space).Conclusion: Internet not only has many uses in daily life; Rather, it has special and unique features that increase its attractiveness a hundredfold, and it leads to addiction to the Internet, tolerance, withdrawal, emotional disturbances, and cutting off social relations by keeping people away from social relations, causing depression and loneliness in them, as a result, with Establishing courses in order to educate families with the culture of optimal use of smart phones and equipment, in order to prevent disappointment, depression and loneliness in order to prevent cyber addiction in young people.
Research Article (Qualitative)
Social Sciences
Hamed Derakhshani; Nader Soleimani; Hamid Shafizadeh
Abstract
Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the factors that reduce the cheerfulness of teachers in Semnan province and to provide a model. Methodology: Research in terms of applied purpose; In terms of data type, it was qualitative and in terms of implementation method, it was thematic analysis. ...
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the factors that reduce the cheerfulness of teachers in Semnan province and to provide a model. Methodology: Research in terms of applied purpose; In terms of data type, it was qualitative and in terms of implementation method, it was thematic analysis. The statistical population included school teachers, senior education directors and university professors who were sampled by snowball method. The instrument used was a semi-structured interview which was analyzed by data analysis method. To determine the internal cheerfulness of the findings, the data were matched with theoretical and background bases and interviews with experts were used. To confirm the accuracy of the data, the study method was used by the research members to determine the external validity of the findings. Findings: Theoretical saturation and triangulation techniques were used. Data analysis resulted in identifying 91 basic themes, 15 organizing themes and 5 comprehensive themes that were divided into two main categories of main and secondary themes. Together, these themes formed a coherent model for reducing the cheerfulness of teachers in Semnan province. Finally, the reasons for the decrease in teachers' cheerfulness, including 5 categories of comprehensive themes, including individual factors, organizational factors, cultural factors, extra-organizational factors and job factors were obtained. Conclotion: Paying special attention to the factors that reduce the cheerfulness of teachers and addressing them in order to eliminate the factors that reduce the cheerfulness of teachers, can restore some cheerfulness to the teacher community.
Research Article (Mixed)
Social Sciences
Moosa Moghadas; Parivash Jafari; Mohammad Noor Rahmani; Nader Gholi Ghoorchian
Abstract
Positive leadership, rooted in positive organizational psychology and behavior, seeks to achieve outstanding performance in the organization. In this study, we seek to provide a model for promoting positive leadership among school principals in Fars province. This research is a descriptive survey and ...
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Positive leadership, rooted in positive organizational psychology and behavior, seeks to achieve outstanding performance in the organization. In this study, we seek to provide a model for promoting positive leadership among school principals in Fars province. This research is a descriptive survey and in terms of data, it is a combination (quantitative and qualitative). Sample of 365 Fars school principals who were selected by stratified random cluster sampling method using Cochran Cox methodIn the qualitative part of the sample, there are 16 education specialists and experts in the field of management and educational leadership who have been selected using purposive sampling. The Cameron Positive Leadership Questionnaire (2008), the Cameron Positive Leadership Strategies Application Questionnaire (2008), and the interview were used to collect data. The validity of the instrument was measured and confirmed by content validity and reliability by Cronbach's alpha.Data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics (exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, Friedman, one-sample t-test, and dependent T-test and structural equation model) using SPSS and Emus software.The proposed model for promoting positive leadership among school principals has 4 dimensions and 20 components that the factor load of all dimensions and components is more than 0.3 and is acceptable. The appropriateness of the proposed model is highly credible by experts. And has been approved with 95% confidence
