Original Research Paper
Electronic learning- virtual
A. Sanayei; H. Salimian
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Internet has been a significant effect on the establishment of virtual education. Virtual education is a term that involves online learning by using e-learning. This study analyzes the affecting factors for virtual education acceptance with emphasize on the internal factors and its statistical population ...
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Internet has been a significant effect on the establishment of virtual education. Virtual education is a term that involves online learning by using e-learning. This study analyzes the affecting factors for virtual education acceptance with emphasize on the internal factors and its statistical population is, virtual faculty students of Isfahan University who have been completed the questionnaires either by their presence or through the internet (electronic questionnaires). In comparing this research with others in this field we will understand that, there is more recognition of the internal factors affecting the learners in this paper, in this study, we emphasize on these factors; and we consider the motivation and self-efficacy as internal factors. According to the technology acceptance model, we consider the direct effect of the motivation variables, ease of perceived use, cognition’s benefits, the indirect effect of social influence, system quality, facilitating condition and self-efficiency on behavioral tendency and students’ acceptance of virtual education. SPSS 19 and Amos 18 software have been used to analyze the data. The 121 questionnaire findings showed that Social influences and system quality have an impact on cognition’s benefits. Also it must be noted that we showed the effect of facilitating conditions and self-efficiency on ease of perceived use and effect of ease perceived use of the cognition’s benefits. Also on we accepted that motivation, ease of perceived use and cognition’s benefits have a direct effect on the students tendency and their behavioral tendency.
Original Research Paper
Electronic learning- virtual
N. Bibi Eshrat Zamani; M.J. Liaghat dar; A. Mohamadi; H. Babri
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At first this project reviews and then compares the self-efficiency of instructors and students who use the internet in the Isfahan teacher training center. The research method is descriptive-survey. The statistical population consists of all the students and instructors in Isfahan teacher training ...
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At first this project reviews and then compares the self-efficiency of instructors and students who use the internet in the Isfahan teacher training center. The research method is descriptive-survey. The statistical population consists of all the students and instructors in Isfahan teacher training centers. The related data gathered by the researcher made questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was determined by content validity. The reliability coefficient calculated by Cranach’s Alpha scale 0.94. The findings showed that it should be a significant difference between the students and instructors ideas in their self-efficiency to use the internet in different areas such as: education, communication and research context. The instructors’ self-efficiency level in education, communications and research context is more than students. Also both groups have the same viewpoints about the effective factor that increase the self-efficiency in using the internet. Among these ideas access to the internet at home for the students and holding English courses for instructors has more importance.
Original Research Paper
Technology-based learning environments
E. Zarghami; S. Azemati
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When we take a look at the universities, it should be understood that almost all the university spaces are devoted to the departments and classes and all the designers’ and planners attention is to the internal parts of the university and there is no or little attention is paid to the university ...
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When we take a look at the universities, it should be understood that almost all the university spaces are devoted to the departments and classes and all the designers’ and planners attention is to the internal parts of the university and there is no or little attention is paid to the university campus. There are a few applied studies about increasing the quality of campus in Iran universities. While, the campus has an important role to promote University goals, science and education. With regards to lack of knowledge in this field, architectural and landscape science is an advantage to reach this goal. According to the above mentioned problem this research considered the approaches and theories related to the landscape architecture to strength the role of the campus in students learning and education. The final goal of this research is to find the advantages of the campus for the students. The research method used in this study is descriptive-survey. According to the landscape design coordinates and getting the landscape design sample, we designed a questionnaire to gather and analyze the data. The questionnaire was filled by 200 architecture student and graduate students of Iran universities. The statistical population was selected randomly from the faculty of architecture from Iran universities. The results were analyzed by SPSS software. By considering the result we determine some main factors of campus desirability in Universities. At last by using a scientific method we will differ the scientific effects of these factors.
Original Research Paper
Technology-based learning environments
M. Atashak; B. Baradaran; M. Ahmadvand
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The aim of this semi experimental research was to study the effect of educational computer games on students’ social skills and their educational progress. To this end, sixty students of 5th grade were selected from a primary school. They were randomly assigned in control and experimental ...
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The aim of this semi experimental research was to study the effect of educational computer games on students’ social skills and their educational progress. To this end, sixty students of 5th grade were selected from a primary school. They were randomly assigned in control and experimental groups. The experiment group spends sixty sessions of 45 minutes playing computer game for two months. The covariance results showed that computer games do not increase cooperation and expression variables in a meaningful way, but significant increase for dependent variables such as empathy about 10.2, self-control 8.2, in general social skills about 13.8 and educational achievement the effect was about 84.2.
Original Research Paper
Educational Technology Psychology
J. Jarareh; A. Mohamadi
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The Present research aim is to study the effect of training strategy of cognitive – behavioral on test anxiety reduction among female high school students. The present study is a semi-experimental study. The statistical population of 70 female students of Tehran high school was selected by the ...
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The Present research aim is to study the effect of training strategy of cognitive – behavioral on test anxiety reduction among female high school students. The present study is a semi-experimental study. The statistical population of 70 female students of Tehran high school was selected by the multi stage randomized method and assigned into 2 groups as experimental and control (each group 35 people). Instrument of data collection in this study was Ahvaz test anxiety scale (ATAS). The questionnaire was completed in two stages before, and a week after the intervention by both groups, and then the data analyzed. Results showed that the average of test anxiety has significantly decreased in the experimental group (p<0/05). Training cognitive-behavioral strategies can be effective on the reduction of test anxiety of students. With regard to this paper we suggest that using training cognitive-behavioral strategies can be useful for test anxiety reduction of students and increase their performance in exams.
Original Research Paper
Education technology -Engineering training
M. Mahmoudi Sahebi; S. Nasri; H. Gholinia
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Continuous professors' teaching quality evaluation has a great effect on their teaching quality progress. How to do an evaluation and criteria that are used to it, are really important. In this research, common methods for evaluating teaching quality are studied and new criteria were suggested. This ...
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Continuous professors' teaching quality evaluation has a great effect on their teaching quality progress. How to do an evaluation and criteria that are used to it, are really important. In this research, common methods for evaluating teaching quality are studied and new criteria were suggested. This research tries to select the statistical population among the engineering field and uses the students and professors’ idea to recognize the teaching evaluation criteria in theoretical lessons as well as project, laboratory and workshop lesson and come to new conclusions. In introducing the new criteria indexes including lessons plan, professional behavior, test questions, social behavior, case studies of the postgraduate and professors' performances in workshop and laboratory lessons and students' projects and thesis are targeted. For identifying criteria of professors' teaching performance evaluation, the research was a kind of descriptive-survey one. In this research, a statistic population including 340 students and 106 professors were selected as a sample group and their opinions about the criteria for evaluating the professors' teaching quality were collected. Data was analyzed by SPSS version 16.0 software. The professors and students’ opinions were processed by using this software. The results indicate that for professors, criteria for lesson plan, scheduling in class session by following the book topics and for students, providing booklet, answering questions, using suitable examples, professor skill in experimental lesson, participation and supervision of projects and student’s thesis are the most important criteria for evaluating professors' teaching quality.
Original Research Paper
Curriculum Planning
S. Golkari; M. Ayati; M. Rastgoo
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The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of web based curriculum on high school students’ creativity. The method used in this study was semi-experimental, along with a pre-post test design with the control group. In this study, the statistical population consists of all the girl ...
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The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of web based curriculum on high school students’ creativity. The method used in this study was semi-experimental, along with a pre-post test design with the control group. In this study, the statistical population consists of all the girl students in the first level of high school in Birjand. The sample group included 50 students (25 in the control group and 25 in the experimental group) were chosen by an accessible sampling method. Abedi creativity questionnaire was used to collect the data. The score difference of pre-post test of these groups was analyzed by t-test. The results showed that the influence of web based curriculum on the creativity of the experimental group. Considering the four creativity factors, the effect of web based curriculum on fluency, initiative, flexibility and elaboration was meaningful.
