Psychology
Nahideh Yousefpour; Noushin Derakhshan; Roghayeh Poursaberi
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Purpose: Academic achievement especially in mathematics is very important and knowing the effective factors on it helps a lot in planning in the field of mathematical academic achievement. As a result, the aim of this research was to investigate the causal model of mathematical academic achievement based ...
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Purpose: Academic achievement especially in mathematics is very important and knowing the effective factors on it helps a lot in planning in the field of mathematical academic achievement. As a result, the aim of this research was to investigate the causal model of mathematical academic achievement based on the creative thinking and critical thinking with the mediation of problem solving in primary school students. Methodology: The present study was a description from type of quantitative, which its population was all primary school students of Tabriz city in the 2023-24 academic years. The sample size of the present research was considered to be 250 people, which this number were selected by multi-step cluster random sampling method. The tools of this study were included the questionnaires of mathematical academic achievement (Shalev et al, 1993), creative thinking (Welch and Mc Dowall, 2010), critical thinking (Facione et al, 1994) and problem solving (Heppner and Petersen, 1982) and their data were analyzed with the methods of Pearson correlation coefficients and structural equation modeling in SPSS-26 and AMOS-24 software. Findings: The findings of the present research showed that the causal model of mathematical academic achievement based on the creative thinking and critical thinking with the mediation of problem solving in primary school students had a good fit. In the mentioned model, the variables of creative thinking and critical thinking had a direct and significant effect on problem solving and mathematical academic achievement of primary school students, and the variable of problem solving had a direct and significant effect on their mathematical academic achievement. In addition, the variables of creative thinking and critical thinking with the mediation of problem solving had an indirect and significant effect on mathematical academic achievement of primary school students (P<0.05). Conclusion: According to the results of this study, in order to improve the mathematical academic achievement of primary school students can promote their creative thinking, critical thinking and problem solving.
Faranak Ghodsi; Ameneh Aman Zadeh
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Purpose: Self-regulation training can improve the academic variables and performance of students. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of the effectiveness of self-regulation training on the perception of teachers' teaching quality, critical thinking and sense of school belongingness ...
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Purpose: Self-regulation training can improve the academic variables and performance of students. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of the effectiveness of self-regulation training on the perception of teachers' teaching quality, critical thinking and sense of school belongingness of the female students of the second year of high school.
Methodology: In a semi-experimental study with a pretest and posttest design with experimental and control groups, among the female students of the second year of high school in the 1th district of Sanandaj number of 30 people were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly by lottery assigned to two groups of 15 people. The experimental group received 10 sessions of 90 minutes based on the package of Barzegar Bafrooei et al (2018) and the control group did not receive any training. In this study, to collect data were used from Seraj's perception of teachers' teaching quality questionnaire (2013), Ricketts's critical thinking questionnaire (2003) and Arslan and Duru's school belongingness scale (2016) and its data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance method in SPSS version 19 software.
Findings: The findings showed that there was a significant difference between the female students of the second year of high school in the experimental and control groups in terms of all three variables of perception of teachers' teaching quality, critical thinking and sense of school belongingness. In the other words, self-regulation training led to improve the perception of teachers' teaching quality, critical thinking and sense of school belongingness of the female students of the second year of high school (P<0.001).
Conclusion: Considering the effectiveness of self-regulation training on improving the academic variables and performance can be used the mentioned method along with other educational methods to improve and promote academic variables and performance, especially the perception of teachers' teaching quality, critical thinking and sense of school belongingness.
Afsaneh Kamali; Zahra Khavari
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This article reviews the factors affecting critical thinking of students in Mashhad. In this study based on theoretical viewpoints of Habermas, Bourdieu, Lipman, Perry, Maiers, Vinche, Dewey, and Ennis, the effective indicators of critical thinking were selected and studied. These indicators are ...
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This article reviews the factors affecting critical thinking of students in Mashhad. In this study based on theoretical viewpoints of Habermas, Bourdieu, Lipman, Perry, Maiers, Vinche, Dewey, and Ennis, the effective indicators of critical thinking were selected and studied. These indicators are educational tendencies, mental expectations of school and educational major, academic motivation, school level, social cohesion inside the school, commitment, teaching method, rationality, place and methods of dialogue, school facilities, and cultural capital. The method of study is survey and the tool for gathering data is questionnaire. The sample is composed of 380 high school students in Mashhad, who were selected randomly. Findings are attained based on the frequency distribution, Pearson correlation coefficient, multivariate regression analysis, and trajectory analysis. The results of multivariate regression analysis indicate that rationality and teaching method are the main predictors of critical thinking of students.
