Modern Educational Approaches
A. Badeleh,; H. R. Gholamrezaei
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Background and Objectives: This study aims at examining the effect of real-world teaching model on the visual-spatial visualization focusing on the role of technical self-efficacy of male technical-engineering students in technical drawing.Methods: This study applies semi-experimental design using pretest-posttest ...
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Background and Objectives: This study aims at examining the effect of real-world teaching model on the visual-spatial visualization focusing on the role of technical self-efficacy of male technical-engineering students in technical drawing.Methods: This study applies semi-experimental design using pretest-posttest method. The statistical population of the study includes 400 male associate students in technical courses among whom 40 students were selected as the sample, using random cluster sampling method. The instruments included researcher-made questionnaires of technical self-efficacy, visual-spatial visualization and evaluation of real-world teaching model. The validity and reliability of the aforementioned questionnaires were measured using the content validity as well as considering the ideas and suggestions of experienced professors, curriculum and psychology experts. Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient for subscales of self-confidence, motivation and perseverance, innovation and questionnaires of technical self-efficacy, visual-spatial visualization, evaluating a real-world teaching model were found to be 0.88, 0.75, 0.81, 0.90, 0.80 and 0.77, respectively.Findings: The results showed that the real-world teaching model has an influence on the male engineering students’ technical self-efficacy, its dimensions, and their visual-spatial visualization in technical drawing; and technical self-efficacy, with its mediating effect, is effective on the influence of real-world learning model on students’ visual-spatial visualization. Students are suitably satisfied with the teaching method that is based on the real-world model in the components involved in using this model to understand the maps, geometrical design, tangible 3-D models, and usefulness of the real-world models. However, their satisfaction with the components of using and applying practical teaching of the real-world models is not appropriate.Conclusions: Real models enhance students' vision for preparing the maps on the basis of the real-time industrial model as well as its reconstruction. Drawing maps on the basis of 3D images, simplifying the design of maps, and facilitating the process of working with real-time industrial collections and mechanisms to identify and understand the solutions for technical problems lead students to gain new and innovative experiences.
Electronic learning- virtual
A. Badeleh; N. Nosrat; V. Soleymani Rad
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Background and Objective: Increasing development of technology has led to appearance of machines calls robots which have influenced different dimensions of human life. Robotics is one of the newest technologies in today’s world that has a great role in industry today and is gradually expanding ...
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Background and Objective: Increasing development of technology has led to appearance of machines calls robots which have influenced different dimensions of human life. Robotics is one of the newest technologies in today’s world that has a great role in industry today and is gradually expanding throughout human life. Robotics is a new tool that can meet many human needs and influence the attitudes and thoughts of people, especially adolescents, and influence their behavior, because adolescents are interested in gaining new experiences and technology, due to new inventions such as robotics, this need is met. Students feel more comfortable with technology and robotics, because this technology quenches their curiosity. The world of robotics is a combination of electronics, mechanics, software and hardware that is constantly evolving. In other words, a robot is an electromechanical device or intelligent software to replace humans, with the aim of performing various tasks. A machine that can be programmed to execute various commands or perform a series of special tasks, especially those that are beyond the natural capabilities of men. Robotics, due to its interdisciplinary nature, has an attractive approach to education, because it requires expertise in the fields of mathematics and aesthetics, while mathematics strengthens problem-solving thinking and aesthetics strengthens creative thinking. Therefore, it can be said that robotics is effective on students' problem-solving and creative thinking. This study aims to evaluate the effect of robotic education on problem-solving of junior-high school students in physics. Methods: This is a semi-experimental and causal-comparative study. The statistical population includes all schools participating in the robotics training program in Tehran. Using cluster sampling, from 5 districts of Tehran, one district was chosen, and then randomly from its schools, 6 schools with 173 students were selected and 120 students were randomly selected among them. Research tools included a researcher-made questionnaire of problem-solving measurement and an educational package of robotic structures in physics. Its validity was confirmed by content validity method by robotics experts and testers and its reliability was achieved 0.95 using Cronbach's alpha. For data analysis, SPSS software was used in two levels of descriptive statistics (indexes of centrality and frequency) and deductive statistics (independent t-test, variance analysis and covariance analysis). Findings: The findings show there is a significant relationship between educational robotic and problem-solving skills, and also, there is no significant relationship between the effect of robotic education on the level of problem-solving skills among girls and boys students. Conclusion: Robotic education has a significant effect on problem solving skills of high school students. The present study, like any other research, has certain limitations such as using only one research instrument, i.e. questionnaire and not using other instruments and geographical and curricular limitations and training costs and robot construction, and need for advanced workshop equipment. There was a lack of original and standard software. Therefore, it is suggested that the present study be conducted in other geographical areas and in other courses and in places with advanced engineering facilities to increase the probability of generalizations. Based on the findings of this study, it is suggested that arrangements be made to investigate the effect of robotics on students' motivation and learning, and to provide accurate information to provide solutions for the correct use of robotics training. In addition, it is suggested that robotics training methods in other countries be considered to promote the effectiveness of robotics training on students.
e-learning
N. Ghazanfari; A. Badeleh
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Background and Objective:The 21st century is the century of societies moving towards knowledge-based, knowledge sharing and transformation in the axes and basic concepts of life, including education in terms of quantity, quality and speed of presentation. The tendency of the world in recent decades to ...
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Background and Objective:The 21st century is the century of societies moving towards knowledge-based, knowledge sharing and transformation in the axes and basic concepts of life, including education in terms of quantity, quality and speed of presentation. The tendency of the world in recent decades to use technology in education due to the lack of traditional education to meet the needs of the education system in the curriculum and educational content, has attracted the attention of many thinkers to create methods and innovations in this field. Today, due to the increasing development of educational methods and dramatic advances in the field of information and communication technology, e-learning is one of the best strategies for achieving social justice in the field of higher education with the slogan "Quality higher education for all." E-learning has been developed in the world for a decade and a short time in Iran. The increasing demand for science, the limitations of traditional educational systems, and the evolution of methods of learning have led the world to methods in which time and place have lost their intrinsic value; Therefore, e-learning can be considered the most important factor in the scientific and cultural leap in the contemporary world. Considering the increasing popularity of using content production standards like SCORM in electronic education, the objective of this survey is evaluation of electronic education content courses in the universities under SCORM standard, from the viewpoint of students and professors. Methods: This study uses a descriptive applied survey-type methodology. Statistical population of the survey is professors and students of distance learning courses in the Shahid Beheshti University (case study) consisting of 230 students and professors. They were selected purposefully on the basis of Morgan and Krejcie table. Data collection tools were researcher-made questionnaires of students and professors. The alpha validity ratio for the students’ questionnaire was measured as0.77and for the professors’ questionnaire as 0.90. In order to analyze and evaluate data, descriptive statistics (mean value, standard deviation) and deductive statistics (one-sample t-test) were used. Findings: The survey findings showed there is a significant relationship between the mean value of accessibility, educational design, content organization, feedback and super-data in the electronic educational content courses in Shahid Beheshti University from the viewpoints of students and professors according to SCORM standards. It also showed that in their viewpoint, the mean value of SCORM standard factors in the electronic educational content courses of Shahid Beheshti University, according to this standard, is in an appropriate level. Conclusion: The present study, like any other research, has limitations such as using only one research tool, questionnaire and not using other tools, university and field of study limitations, difficulty in identifying experts in this field and identifying content production companies and virtual universities under SCORM standard. At the time of the research, the limited similar external background made it difficult for the researcher. Therefore, it is suggested that the present study be implemented in other universities with e-learning and in other fields of study to increase the power of generalizations; Based on the findings of the research, it is suggested that professors need to be taught how to standardize electronic content and to reduce costs, electronic content production in the university with the cooperation of professors and even students, and also to arrange the impact of e-learning standards SCORM should be further researched to provide accurate information on ways to increase the quality of education and welfare of universities with e-learning under the SCORM standard.
Technology-based learning environments
S. Seidi; A. Badeleh
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The purpose of this study was developing standards of making smart schools and the level of respecting to these standards in the schools of Tehran. The study has a mixed design (quantitative and qualitative). In the quantitative section, it is a descriptive survey type. In the qualitative method, it ...
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The purpose of this study was developing standards of making smart schools and the level of respecting to these standards in the schools of Tehran. The study has a mixed design (quantitative and qualitative). In the quantitative section, it is a descriptive survey type. In the qualitative method, it uses documentary and inductive encoding when all the existing documents were studied first, the existing copies were read line by line (open decoding); and then, considering the written words in the documents, the general factors were extracted (canonic encoding); and eventually in the documentation of similarities and differences of the general factors, the main indices were extracted (selective encoding). The population included all 22 smart schools in Tehran in 5 educational districts (i.e. districts 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8) out of which 20 girls’ smart schools were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. The instrument was a researcher-made standardized check-list to evaluate the standards of having smart schools (direct observation, cooperation of principals, and the IT managers of the schools) and studying the current status of smart schools. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and single-group t-test. The results of data analysis showed that the current status of smart schools regarding instructional content and learning is below the standards; the status of the hardware infrastructures and trained teachers is higher than the standards; and the software infrastructure and management are at the average level.
