EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH QUARTERLY
Year:2012 | Volume:3 | Issue:2 (10)|Papers Count:9

This study aimed at investigating the relationship between creativity, social adaptability and academic performance of Zanjan high school students. The statistical population consisted of all grade two high school students in the field of Mathematics and Physics. In order to do the research, 202 students were selected. The data were collected employing California Social Adaptability Questionnaire and Abedi Creativity Questionnaire. The students' first semester overall average was used as academic performance. The data analysis showed that: there was a significant positive relationship between creativity, its dimensions and academic performance; a positive significant relationship was between social adaptability and academic performance. Among social adaptability dimensions, social form, social skills, family relationship, school relationship and social relationship were positively and significantly related to academic performance. There was only a negative significant relationship between anti-social desires and academic performance. There was no significant difference observed between boys and girls in terms of academic performance. No significant difference was observed among social adaptability dimensions, anti–social desires. In terms of creativity and flexibility dimensions, there was a significant different in favor of the girls, and no significant difference was observed concerning fluency and elaborator and inventiveness. Among social adaptability and its dimensions, only social adaptability and among creativity and its dimensions, and creativity were the predictors of academic performance (0.027) and (0.024) respectively.

The present research aims at designing curriculum pattern of citizenship training for students of junior high school. It is an applied research and the method of the study is descriptive. The population of the research consists of all experts' thoughts and reflections about citizenship training and curriculum published through the books, documents, papers, journals, texts and internet sites in developed countries. The researchers' attempts have been devoted to gathering a sample of related material which has been selected and summarized purposefully in order to present the theoretical foundation of this curriculum and its elements (goals, content, method, organizational procedures, and evaluation). The results of the study include the goals and content of the program introduced for the students in an applied form and problem oriented in the context of social activities. The organizational procedures of the given program were posed in the form of related and combined approaches. The method of teaching consisted of: interactive, shared, problem-solving, role play methods. The evaluation methods consisted of measuring the emotional and psychological activities.

The present article has been taken of a research whose main goal was to determine the relationship between parents (adults) education with their children’s life skills at high schools in Eize City. Among different life skills, five have been selected which are as follows: the prevention of social hurt, interpersonal and social relationship, problem solving skill, self awareness and decision making skill. The population of the study consisted of the whole high school and pre-university students who were 8700 people. The research sample included around 358 people according to kerjsy & Morgan Table using random sampling method. The number of distributed questionnaires was 393, and 371 were collected at the end. The tool was the researcher-made questionnaire which was prepared by Hassanzade (1388), but it was rechecked by piloting, and its validity and reliability were confirmed. The students were asked to recognize their parent level of education with the selection of suitable alternatives provided in the research tool. Later, the collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics as frequency, percent frequency, mode, variance, standard deviation, skewness, and referential statistics as Spearman coefficient test and Q square test. The results showed that there is no relationship between adult's education and students' life skills improvement at %0.01 level of significance. There is also no relationship between the parents (adults–mothers & fathers) education and each of the students' skills improvement as social hurt prevention, interpersonal and social relationship, problem solving, self awareness, and decision making skills.

The present research has been carried out to represent a model to evaluate effective factors of teacher's work ethics. The research method was descriptive-correlational type. The statistical populations were all of the teachers in three levels of educational system in East Azarbaijan Province. The subjects of the study (sample) consisted of 400 teachers who were selected through stratified random method from 10 educational zones. The research data were collected through administering three questionnaires. The first questionnaire (OWEI) is a standard tool, and its face and content validity have been verified. But the second and third questionnaires researcher-made; therefore their face, content validity were verified by experts and their reliability was checked by chronbakh’s Alpha method (0.95). Statistical analysis utilized for data analysis included: descriptive methods, Pearson correlation, independent T-test, variance analysis, factor analysis, freedman-test. The finding introduced 4 factors which are effective in teachers’ work ethics: 1) individual factors 2) social factors 3) managerial-organizational factors 4) value-belief factors. Finally, the researcher designed a model which made of 5 sections, and its conformity degree was evaluated by educational experts’ viewpoints which was 80.%

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of gender differences in styles of confronting stress and psychological health among 403 students (206 male students and 197 female students) in Tehran University. The participants answered to a confronting scale related to stressful contexts and to a general health questionnaire. The results of multivariate analysis showed that girls acquired better scores in avoidance, and emotion oriented styles, and boys were better in problem oriented styles. In addition, the girls were weaker than boys concerning the signs of psychological health. The results of the study stressed on the gender differences in confronting styles in order to explain the signs of physical and psychological health among students.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational climate and managerial permanency of the educational administrators of high schools of Khorramabad. The method of research was descriptive (correlational type). The population of the study consisted of 1389 teachers. The sample consisted of 293 teachers (155 female and 138 male) who were determined by Cochrane formula. The data were gathered by the Halpin and Croft standard questionnaire (OSDQ). The gathered data were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that:1) there was a weak positive relationship between the organizational climate and management permanency; 2) there was a weak positive relationship between management permanency and the supported behavior of the managers; 3) there was a negative relationship between management permanency and pedagogical behavior; 4) there was a weak positive relationship between management permanency and professional behaviors of teachers; 5) there was a weak positive relationship between management permanency and hopeless behaviors of the teachers; 6) there was a weak relationship between management permanency and the friendly behavior of the teacher.

The purpose of the present paper was to study the relationship between the managers' emotional intelligence and knowledge management in Oil Industry. The population of the study consisted of 400 managers and supervisors, as well as 1200 staff under their supervision in 14 companies run by Oil Industry. Using Morgan Table, 195 managers and 530 staff were selected as the research sample. The emotional intelligence questionnaire was administered to the managers, and the knowledge management questionnaire was administered to the staff. The research was co-relational and descriptive type and both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the obtained data. The results of the study showed that there was not a significant relationship between the two given variables, while there was a low relationship between the dimensions of emotional intelligence and knowledge management.

The present study is an applied study based on its objective and a descriptive-correlational based on data collection procedure. The sample of the study consisted of 147 employees randomly chosen from the staff of whole population of Islamic Azad Univerity, and explored based on Morgan Table. The results of Correlational analysis showed that there is a positive and significant correlation between individual factors (level of education and service background), educational factors (number of attending in educational courses, and characteristics of educational courses) and economic factors (experts salary and financial reward) and management factors (supervision status and performance assessment method), and professional development (dependent variable) of staff. In addition, Manvitney test results showed that there is no significant difference between the extent of professional development of men and women staff, namely, the professional development of Islamic Azad University employees was the same. Kroskal Walis test results demonstrated that fields of study (and in particular library science, art, law and psychology) were effective in the extent of professional development of Islamic Azad University staff. So, it is recommended to employ staff with related fields of study.