morteza mosakhani; Seyedeh Reyhaneh Hodayipour,; Mahmoud Modiri
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Objective: The present study sought to design a model to eliminate the digital divide in education with emphasis on the Quid 19 epidemic crisis. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to identify model variables and also to determine the causal relationships between model variables.Methodology: ...
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Objective: The present study sought to design a model to eliminate the digital divide in education with emphasis on the Quid 19 epidemic crisis. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to identify model variables and also to determine the causal relationships between model variables.Methodology: This research has been done in two parts: qualitative and quantitative. In the qualitative part, variables, components and indicators of the research were extracted using the method of data foundation and coding through interviews with experts.Finding: In a small part, a comprehensive interpretive-structural modeling method has been used to create a model and determine the causal relationships between the research variables. The statistical population of the study includes 20 education experts who were selected by purposive non-probability sampling using snowball and theoretical techniques. The criterion of sample size in the qualitative part is theoretical saturation.Conclusion: The results of the qualitative section showed that the digital divide elimination model has the variables "e-government inclusion barriers" (interfering factors), "digital development platform" (contextual factors), "digital capacities" (causal factors) , "Digital content" (focal category), "digital divide elimination" (strategies) and "consequences". Based on the results of the quantitative section, the two variables "digital development platforms" and "barriers to e-government inclusion" have the greatest impact and importance in the model and are among the independent and strong stimulus variables that more managers' attention and effective monitoring of these stimuli can Help achieve the goals of the organization. It is expected that the model of eliminating the digital divide in education will lead to the consequences of reducing digital inequalities, reducing social inequalities, developing information and communication technology and increasing the participation of families in the educational process
Psychology
Mohammad Azad Abdollahpour
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Objective: The main purpose of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Short Character Strength Measure (SCSM) among Iranian teachers. Methods: In this correlation study, 200 teachers (100 male, 100 female) completed the Short Character Strength Measure and the Questionnaire ...
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Objective: The main purpose of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Short Character Strength Measure (SCSM) among Iranian teachers. Methods: In this correlation study, 200 teachers (100 male, 100 female) completed the Short Character Strength Measure and the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI). The confirmatory factor analysis method and internal consistency were used to compute the SCSM's factorial validity and reliability, respectively. Also, in order to examine the construct validity of the character strength measure, we computed correlation between different dimensions of SCSM with positive and negative interpersonal teacher behaviors. Results: The results of confirmatory factor analysis, based AMOS software, indicated that multidimensional structure of the SCSM consisted wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance and transcendence had acceptable fit to data in the teacher’s sample. Correlation analyses between different dimensions of SCSM with positive and negative interpersonal teacher behaviors provided initial evidence for the SCSM construct validity. Internal consistencies for the scales measuring wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance and transcendence were 0/66, 0/55, 0/52, 0/50, 0/55 and 0/76, respectively. In sum, these findings provide evidence for the validity and reliability of the SCSM as an instrument to measure of character strength among teacher’s sample.
Psychology
Niloufar Aghaei Kamakeli; Reza Ghorban Jahromi; Mansoureh Karimzadeh; Seyyed Rouhollah Shahabi
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Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of mediating the role of self-differentiation in the relationship between basic psychological needs and addiction to online games in secondary school students.Methodology: The cross-sectional research method is correlational. The statistical population ...
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Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of mediating the role of self-differentiation in the relationship between basic psychological needs and addiction to online games in secondary school students.Methodology: The cross-sectional research method is correlational. The statistical population of this research was made up of all students of the second level of high school in Tehran in 1402-1401, among whom 400 students (200 girls and 200 boys) were selected based on Cain's formula as a staged cluster sampling. In this research, online game addiction tools (Wang and Chang, 2002), basic psychological needs (LaGuardia et al., 2000) and self-differentiation (Skorn and Friedlander, 1998) were used, all of which had acceptable validity and reliability. In order to analyze the data, SPSS-V23 and Lisrel-V24 software were used. Also, in order to test research hypotheses, structural equation modeling was used.Findings: Also, in order to respond to the research hypotheses, structural equation modeling was used. The results showed that basic psychological needs have a direct effect on addiction to online games. Self-differentiation has a direct effect on addiction to online games. Basic psychological needs have an indirect effect on addiction to online games. The modified structural model of the research also had a favorable fit with the data (RMSEA=0.055, GFI=.088) and this is an important step towards knowing the factors affecting the addiction to online games in students.Conclusion: The results showed that basic psychological needs have an indirect effect on addiction to online games.
Social Sciences
Atefeh Mohkamkar; Fatemeh Shaterian; Azam Nikookar
Abstract
Objective: Successful intelligence can improve many psychological and academic characteristics, and considering the importance of emotional self-awareness and academic engagement, the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of education based on successful intelligence ...
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Objective: Successful intelligence can improve many psychological and academic characteristics, and considering the importance of emotional self-awareness and academic engagement, the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of education based on successful intelligence on emotional self-awareness and academic engagement of secondary school students.Method: This was a semi-experimental study with a pre-test, post-test and follow-up design with experimental and control groups. The population of the current research was all students of the tenth and eleventh grades of theoretical branch of Saveh city in the academic years of 2022-3, which the sample size was calculated according to G Power software equal to 25 people for each group. Therefore, 50 people were selected by a targeted method and randomly replaced into two experimental and control groups. The experimental group received 10 sessions of 75 minute of education based on successful intelligence, and the control group did not receive any intervention during this period. The research tools were included the revised emotional self-awareness questionnaire of Rieffe et al (2008) and academic engagement questionnaire of Schaufeli et al (2002), which whose psychometric indicators were confirmed. In this study, to analyze the data were used from analysis of variance with repeated measurements and Bonferroni's post hoc test in SPSS software.Results: The findings showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in the post-test and follow-up phases in terms of emotional self-awareness and academic engagement. In the other words, education based on successful intelligence increased the emotional self-awareness and academic engagement of second school students, and the results remained in the follow-up phase as well (P<0.05).Conclusion: Considering the effectiveness of education based on successful intelligence on increasing the emotional self-awareness and academic engagement of secondary school students, to improve the psychological and academic characteristics of students can be used the method of education based on successful intelligence.
Social Sciences
Amir Hosein Shokoufi Moghiman; Parinaz Benisi; Maryam Mosleh
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Background and purpose: By turning the school into a learning organization, the society is gradually guided towards development and lifelong learning. Therefore, today, turning schools into learning organizations is an important issue, and in order to realize it, one must have a correct understanding ...
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Background and purpose: By turning the school into a learning organization, the society is gradually guided towards development and lifelong learning. Therefore, today, turning schools into learning organizations is an important issue, and in order to realize it, one must have a correct understanding and insight into some of its surrounding concepts and issues. Therefore, the aim of the current research is to compile and fit the model of factors related to the development of learning public schools.
Method: The research approach is qualitative and quantitative and a semi-structured interview was conducted through targeted sampling with 22 experts from the Ministry of Education and schools in Tehran until reaching theoretical saturation and finally a questionnaire was designed based on the results of the qualitative part and spread among experts. In order to explore the development model of learning schools, data analysis was done using the foundational data theory and through MAXQDA software. Also, the fit of the relevant model was determined through structural equations using SmartPLS software.
Findings: After conducting qualitative interviews and coding, general categories and subcategories and identification concepts and causal factors, background factors, intervention factors, strategies and consequences of development of learning schools were determined and finally the development model of learning schools with 6 main dimensions and 17 subcategories. And 221 indicators were designed. Also, the fit of the extracted model was confirmed.
Results: Iran's education should simultaneously with the evolution of educational approaches in the world, provide the basis for the formation of learning schools, and in these schools, enhanced learning processes and an integrated interactive environment will be provided to improve the key skills of students, so that all the beneficiaries of the benefits of school development Learners benefit.
Social Sciences
Ramazan Jannati; Maryam Afzalkhani; Hadi Rezghi Shirsvar
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Purpose: The present research was conducted with the aim of identifying the factors affecting the development of teachers' and students' participation in research activities (student research centers).Methodology: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and qualitative in terms of execution ...
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Purpose: The present research was conducted with the aim of identifying the factors affecting the development of teachers' and students' participation in research activities (student research centers).Methodology: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and qualitative in terms of execution method. The research community was experts in the field of student research institutes of Semnan province in 2021-2022, among them, according to the principle of theoretical saturation, 16 people were selected using targeted and snowball sampling methods. were chosen. The tool of data collection was a semi-structured interview, the validity of which was confirmed by the triangulation method and the reliability of 62% was obtained by the Cohen's kappa coefficient method. Data were analyzed by open, axial and selective coding method in MAXQDA 2020 software.Findings: The findings showed that the factors affecting the development of teachers' and students' participation in research activities included 18 concepts, 6 sub-categories and 3 main categories. The main categories include the structure of the research center (with two sub-categories of the system of rewarding and appreciating the efforts of teachers and students and the conditions of application and ethical principles in its process), the clear mission and vision of the research center (with the two sub-categories of developing a strategic plan and developing Specific goals, missions, values and perspectives) and laws, regulations and policies (with the subcategory of flexibility in the process of employing teachers, student teachers and gifted students and adding points in the annual evaluation and ranking).Discussion and conclusion: Considering the effective factors identified on the development of teachers' and students' participation in research activities (student research centers), it is necessary to plan for the development of their participation, which is realized through the identified factors.
Social Sciences
Bibinaeimeh Sheikh; Kambiz Esmaeilnia shirvani; Maryam Safari; Masoumeh Bagherpur
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Objective: Education along with finding ideas and creativity fostering in schools, especially in conservatories is of particular importance. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model of education along with production based on idea finding and creativity fostering ...
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Objective: Education along with finding ideas and creativity fostering in schools, especially in conservatories is of particular importance. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model of education along with production based on idea finding and creativity fostering in the conservatories of Golestan province.
Method: This study was conducted with a qualitative approach. The statistical population of the present study were experts familiar with the field of research, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 20 people of them were selected as a sample with using the purposeful sampling method. The tool of this study was a semi-structured interview, which the validity was calculated by the content method 0.76 and the reliability was calculated by the agreement coefficient between two coders method 0.89. The data of the present study were analyzed by coding method in MAXQDA software.
Results: The findings showed that the model of education along with production based on idea finding and creativity fostering in the conservatories of Golestan province had 56 components and 11 dimensions. The dimensions of the mentioned model were included content and organization (with 5 components), curriculum goals (with 14 components), teaching and learning strategies (with 7 components), connection with the labor market (with 3 components), participation in curriculum production (with 2 components), training and consulting (with 4 components), principles of compilation (with 3 components), evaluation (with 7 components), location activation and production facilitation (with 5 components), continuous interaction with scientific centers (with 3 components) and curriculum features (with 3 components).
Conclusion: Specialists and planners of the educational system, especially the education system of conservatories according to the identified dimensions and components can provide the basis for improving education along with production based on idea finding and creativity fostering in the conservatories.
Psychology
Seyyed Saeed Naeimi Tajdar; Abolfazl Nejatimehr; Abbas Firoozabadi
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Purpose: This study aimed to explore the relationship between character virtues and self-compassion among female students in universities, with a focus on the mediating Role of positive emotions.
Methodology: The research employed a correlation method, targeting female students enrolled in universities ...
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Purpose: This study aimed to explore the relationship between character virtues and self-compassion among female students in universities, with a focus on the mediating Role of positive emotions.
Methodology: The research employed a correlation method, targeting female students enrolled in universities in 2022. A sample size of 596 individuals was obtained through available sampling. Data collection utilized the short version of the Values in Action Questionnaire (Linley, Joseph, and Seligman, 2004), self-compassion questionnaire (Neff, 2003), and positive psychotherapy inventory (Rashid, 2020). Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 24.
Results: The findings revealed that character virtues had a significant direct effect on self-compassion (p>0.003, β=0.61) and an indirect effect mediated by positive emotions (p>=0.003, β=0.06, p=0.003). Moreover, positive emotions exhibited a notable direct effect on self-compassion (p>0.003; β=0.19). also, character virtues and positive emotions explained approximately 58% of the variance in self-compassion.
Conclusions: The study underscores the mediating role played by positive emotions in shaping the relationship between charcter virtues and self-compassion among female university students - possibly enhancing their levels of self-kindness as well as fostering experiences based on excellence and positivity creation.
Psychology
Alieh Amini; Hossein Karsheki; Maryam Bordbar
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Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the mediating role of school-related hardiness in the relationship between the Sense of school belonging with educational hope in the second-secondary level students of Mashhad City.
Methodology: The current research was applied research, ...
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Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the mediating role of school-related hardiness in the relationship between the Sense of school belonging with educational hope in the second-secondary level students of Mashhad City.
Methodology: The current research was applied research, and in terms of data collection, it was descriptive, correlational, and structural equations. The statistical population included all students who were studying theoretical subjects in the high school in Mashhad township in the academic year of 2021-2022. According to Klein's suggestion, the sample size was 322 people and they were selected by available sampling method. The research tools included the educational hope scale (Shegefti & Samani, 2011), the Sense of school belonging scale (Brew et al, 2004) and the school-related hardiness scale (Cole et al, 2004). The data were analyzed with the help of Pearson correlation coefficients and structural equation model in SPSS and AMOS software.
Findings: There is a significant positive relationship between all the components of the Sense of school belonging, academic hardiness and academic hope. Also, the Sense of school belonging has a positive and significant effect on academic hardiness and hope. In addition, hardiness also has a positive and significant effect on educational hope (p<0.01). Finally, the indirect effect of the Sense of school belonging on academic hope through academic hardiness was also confirmed (p<0.01).
Conclusion: The results confirmed the role of sense of belonging as a predictor of academic hope and highlight the role of academic hardiness as a mediator in this relationship. Students with high sense of belonging to school perform better in the two dimensions of academic hope in order to have social support and access to more intellectual-practical resources. Also, these people have higher academic hardiness due to the experience of positive emotions, which has an effect on the students' academic hope due to the increase in predictability, challenge and commitment. The findings show the importance of sense of belonging and academic hardiness in the formation of academic hope and suggest to create a suitable environment to increase students’ school belonging.
Social Sciences
Mohammad Javad Moheban; Mohammad Reza Ghaedi; Mohammad Reza Dehshiri; Mohammad Kazam Kaveh Pishghadam
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The purpose of this research is to evaluate the challenges of Iran's higher education system after the revolution in the process of scientific and executive policy making and decision making. In terms of practical purpose, the research is mixed (exploratory) in terms of the method of data collection. ...
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The purpose of this research is to evaluate the challenges of Iran's higher education system after the revolution in the process of scientific and executive policy making and decision making. In terms of practical purpose, the research is mixed (exploratory) in terms of the method of data collection. The research community included written documents and sources and academic experts and professors who have sufficient information on the subject under investigation. The research tools included: 1_ questionnaires, 2_ semi-structured interviews, 3_ researcher-made questionnaires. In order to analyze the qualitative data, the coding method was used and in the quantitative part, the statistical tests of exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural rates were used. Data analysis was done using PLS software. Based on the results of the qualitative part of the research, the challenges of the Islamic Republic of Iran's higher education system in the scientific and executive fields were classified into 19 categories. In the quantitative part, the results show that out of the 19 components of the challenges obtained in the qualitative part, the components (focusing on the quantitative expansion of higher education (dominance of the quantitative paradigm), neglecting quality and neglecting it in the general policies of higher education, lack of attention) According to the land in higher education, not suitable educational standards and facilities at the world level and dimensions related to the privatization of universities) were not approved as challenges of the higher education system after the revolution and 14 other components were approved. Based on the findings of the research, it can be concluded that the evaluation of Iran's higher education system after the revolution shows that there are many challenges in higher education that were discussed.
Psychology
Hamideh Mirshamsi; Naser Mohammadi Ahmad Abadi; Afsaneh Alizadeh Asli
Abstract
Objective: Identifying play-based curriculum elements in the preschool period helps to improve these programs. As a result, the aim of this study was to identifying the dimensions and components of the play-based curriculum in the preschool period based on the Montessori theory.Method: The present study ...
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Objective: Identifying play-based curriculum elements in the preschool period helps to improve these programs. As a result, the aim of this study was to identifying the dimensions and components of the play-based curriculum in the preschool period based on the Montessori theory.Method: The present study in terms of purpose was applied research and in terms of the implementation method was a qualitative research. The research population was expert faculty members familiar with the research field, who were selected by purposeful and snowball sampling methods until reaching theoretical saturation, i.e. 6 people. The tool of this study was a semi-structured interview with experts, which its validity was estimated based on the selection of a purposeful sample and information richness, and its reliability was estimated with using the Holsti coefficient method 0.71. The data of the present study were analyzed by thematic analysis method in Maxqda software.Results: According to the findings of the present research, the play-based curriculum in the preschool period based on the Montessori theory has 68 components in 9 dimensions of curriculum desirable goals, curriculum suitable content, suitable teaching materials, suitable learning activities, suitable time, suitable space and time design, suitable learning strategy, suitable grouping and suitable evaluation methods were suitable. Therefore, the pattern of dimensions and components of the play-based curriculum in the preschool period based on the Montessori theory was drawn.Conclusion: One of the fields of curriculum improvement in the preschool period is the promotion of play-based curriculum, which for this purpose can be used the identified dimensions and components of play-based curriculum in the preschool period based on the Montessori theory in this study.
Social Sciences
Akhtar Jamali; Lida Esmaili; Nadergholi Ghorchian
Abstract
Objective: The human resources of any organization is a determining factor in its organization, and improving social intelligence in the human resources of educational organizations can improve the quality of education and learning services. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim ...
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Objective: The human resources of any organization is a determining factor in its organization, and improving social intelligence in the human resources of educational organizations can improve the quality of education and learning services. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of identifying and analyzing the dimensions and components of improving social intelligence among the faculty members of Farhangian University.Method: The method of this study was mixed (qualitative-quantitative). The research population in the qualitative part was the experts in the fields of educational management, cultural management, human resources management and social psychology in 2021 year and in the quantitative part was the faculty members of Farhangian University of Tehran in the 2021-2022 academic years. The sample of the research in the qualitative part according to the principle of theoretical saturation were determined 20 people who these people were selected by purposeful sampling method and in the quantitative part according to Cochran's formula were determined 260 people who these people were selected by stratified random sampling method based on the field of study. Data in the qualitative part were collected by semi-structured interview and analyzed by content analysis method in MAXQDA software and in quantitative part were collected by researcher-made questionnaire and analyzed by exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS and Smart PLS software.Results: The findings of the qualitative part showed that the social intelligence among the faculty members of Farhangian University has 55 indicators, 9 components and 3 dimensions including individual characteristics (with the components of personality characteristics and evaluation), social knowledge and technology (with the components of knowledge application, information technology application and educational technology) and social skills (with the components of internal and external relations, public relations, ability in a specialized field and management skills). The findings of the quantitative part showed that the factor load, content validity, average variance extracted and reliability of dimensions and components were confirmed. In addition, the social intelligence model on all three dimensions of individual characteristics, social knowledge and technology and social skills and each of the three mentioned
Social Sciences
Seddigheh Zohreh Nazari Ardabili; Parinaz Benisi; Hamidreza Vatankhah
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The main purpose of this article is to design the maturity management model of educational technology in Iranian schools. The research method is mixed (qualitative-quantitative). To conduct this research, in addition to document study, thematic analysis technique with MAXQDA12 software was used to identify ...
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The main purpose of this article is to design the maturity management model of educational technology in Iranian schools. The research method is mixed (qualitative-quantitative). To conduct this research, in addition to document study, thematic analysis technique with MAXQDA12 software was used to identify factors and components. The statistical population in this research was all the experts in the field of educational management and educational technology, as well as regional managers with high experience and work experience in education, which was done after conducting 14 theoretical saturation interviews. The interviews lasted between 75 and 120 minutes. Finally, the basic, organizing and inclusive themes are extracted and structural equation method is used in the quantitative part to design the model. The statistical population in the quantitative part included all the principals and teachers of second year high schools in the 19th district of Tehran, and 169 people were selected as a sample by random sampling. According to semi-structured interviews, 4 dimensions (educational technology knowledge management, educational technology resources and facilities, control and coordination of educational technology and educational technology infrastructure), 15 components (organizing themes) and 55 indicators (basic themes) In order to manage the maturity of educational technology in Iranian schools, it was extracted. After that, according to the questionnaire created by the researcher, the knowledge management dimension of educational technology has the highest importance with a coefficient of 0.974.
