Journal of Research in Educational Systems
Year:2017 | Volume:11 | Issue:36 |Papers Count:13

The current research was carried out to evaluate the mediating role of self-esteem in the relationship between social capital and academic hope of elite athlete students. For this purpose, structural equation analysis method was used. The population of research included all elite athlete students, who could win the medal in National Students Sports Olympiads held in Iran during the years 2012 to 2016. Among them, 349 elite athletes were selected using proportional stratified sampling method. To measure the variables, Mobaraki Social Capital Questionnaire (2005), Rosenberg Self-esteem Questionnaire (1965), and Sohrabi and Samani Academic Hope Scale (2011) were used. Findings revealed that among the social capital components, the components of social participation, social support, and social cohesion directly increased the academic hope. Investigating the indirect effects revealed that two components of social support and mutual relations enhanced the academic hope through increasing the self-esteem. Calculating the fit indices revealed that the research model had good fit with data. Finally, results of research were discussed in light of the research literature and theoretical and applied implications of the results were provided.

This study aims to investigate the effect of art education on the visual memory of the individual. Concerning the fact that improving the quality of perceptual structure will lead to the promotion of memory quality, any discussion on the quality of memory and its improvement is a subject for further scrutiny toward perception and organization of information in people’ s minds. The attempt is made to do the evaluation in an experimental setting to answer two research questions. First, what is the effect of art education on perceptual structure of people? Second, what is the effect of art education on visual memory? The test is called “ The Copy and Complex Geometric Figure Test of Andre Rey” . Sixty examinees including thirty students of visual art and thirty other nonart students participated in this study. Statistical methods were used to analyze the data. Comparing the scores showed a significant difference in the criteria of perceptual structure as well as the visual memory. Based upon the results of perceptual structure in terms of quality, enriched drawing, drawing style, and the length of drawing, non-art individuals displayed lower scores than the art students. On the other hand, results of recreation of the shapes showed that the richness and the authenticity of recreation i. e., the measure of visual memory in art students were far higher than non-art students.

The present research aimed to study the indivisible self-model of wellness in Iranian students based on a descriptive research design. Using multi age sampling, a group of total 582 students of Tehran universities 235 Male, 353 female) with age mean of 25 was selected. The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the indivisible self-model of wellness fits the data well. The internal correlations confirmed the significant relationship between the components of indivisible self-model of wellness. The results of t-test revealed the significant difference only between genders. Results of this study showed that the indivisible self-model of wellness can be applied in Iranian culture to improve the wellness and can be integrated and correlated with local and Islamic patterns to find the best wellness model.

In the present study, we reviewed the changes in the role of scientific self-concept, interest in science and attitude toward science in predicting the scientific performance of eighth-grade students in four international studies (TIMSS) conducted in 2003, 2007, 2011, and 2015. The confirmatory factor analysis, and effect sizes, and structural equation modeling (SEM) were used to examine the data from 21434 eighth graders who had participated in the four TIMSS studies. According to the study findings, between 2003 and 2007, the average of science scores has increased, and the average of science self-concept and attitude toward science have increased. Between 2007 and 2011, the average of science achievement has increased, and the average of science self-concept and interest in science have increased, too. Between 2011 and 2015, with a decrease in average of science performance, the average of science self-concept, and interest in science had a reduction; but the average of attitude toward science has decreased. The SEM results showed that science self-concept, directly and indirectly, predicted the science performance of students. According to the findings, attitude toward science and interest in science had negative effects on science performance; these negative effects should be examined using sociological studies. On the other hand, given the fact that attitude is an important variable in learning, more exploration is needed to explain the reduction in positive attitudes toward science and the minor role of attitude toward science in students’ science performance, especially in 2015.

E-learning development in Iran can play a key role in growth and improvement of the country in near future. Main aim of this study was identifying the factors that have influenced E-learning model in Iranian Universities. Present study was conducted in-depth interviews with experts in the subject area. Snowball sampling method and 22 qualitative interviews were conducted in order to test the findings of research. The results were analyzed in three ways: open, axial and selective. The findings indicated 80 effective marks in virtual academic educational model categorized in 11 concept which includes: Organizational issues, integrated management, competitive advantage, targeted educational quality, knowledge management, technology, measurement, ease of access, innovation and creativity, Foresight and meritocracy. Finally, executive strategies have been offered, which could be a key guide for virtual education and its successful implementation.

The main purpose of this study is to explain historical aspects of social demand for education and to analyze its influential factors in Iranian social life. The main question was about the approaches of Iranian crowd toward the education. The research approach is qualitative method and relevant historical facts collected by documentary research method. Findings revealed that we cannot use the modern term "social demand for education" to describe the nature and historical developments of educational needs of people in Iran. In Fact, demand for education was not a public demand for Iranian crowd. Social history of education has neglected in Iran and Review of educational historiography of Iran explicated that there is no trace of crowd in cultural history of Iran. The crowd, actually, have not been able to voice their educational needs and this could be analyzed by the social factors such as gender, class and ethnic inequalities. The current study showed that social, political and economic structure of Iran did not facilitate social demand for education. Religious educational demands, of course, formed in some historical times such as Safavid period due to the specific political-cultural structure. Social demand for education gradually formed in the modern history of Iran and its formation is concerned to the developments of socio-economic infrastructures.

The purpose of present study is to explain the philosophy of learning with the emphasis on Winch's learning theory. To answer the question of what the relationship is between Winch's philosophy of learning and the other learning approaches, by using the conceptual analysis method, first the concept of learning psychological theories and philosophical approaches related to learning is presented, then Winch's viewpoints are elaborated. In order to show the place of Winch's philosophy of learning among the other psychological theories, the study shows that despite the emphasis of both behaviorist on the overt behavior and the cognitivists on the cognitive processes, Winch disagrees with the separation of affective, cognitive and behavioral dimensions in human being. He agreed with the educational concept of behaviorists, but his understanding of education differs from that behaviorists’ favor. He also emphasized on the importance of thinking and attention in learning, it is what that can be seen notably in cognitive theories and less clearly in behaviorists’ theories.

The aim of the present study was examining the effectiveness of educating Flourishing on Positive Emotions, Relationships, Sense of meaning, Achievement and Engagements among young researchers and elites. Methodology: The present study was semi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and control group. All members of Young Researchers and Elite Club of Islamic Azad University in Tehran in 2016-2017, consisted the statistical population of the present study. Sample of study consisted of 40 members of Young Researchers and Elites Club who got scores lower than the mean score in all components of Achievement. These 40 individuals were randomly assigned into experimental and control groups with 20 individuals in each group. Before starting the training course, individuals of both groups completed Butler and Kern's PERMA (Flourishing) scale (2015) and then individuals of experimental group received educational intervention protocol of Achievement in form of eight 2-hour sessions for two days. Individuals of control group received no training. At the end of the course, participants of both groups completed the questionnaire again. Data were analyzed using univariate and multivariate covariance analysis. Findings: Findings showed that the training significantly increased all components of Achievement in individuals of experimental group compared to control group.

Imaging is a new topic that has attracted the attention of many universities and institutions of higher education. Increased competition among universities over student recruitment has forced them to create a good image of their unique characteristics. This research was conducted with the aim of designing the organizational imaging model of universities and institutions of higher education with a structuralinterpretation approach at Allameh Tabataba'i University. The research method was structural-interpretive modelingand self-efficacy matrix questionnaire was used with simple random sampling. In the first stage, the researcher used the method of analyzing the subject matter of the organization's corporate imaging through the method of analyzing the network. In the second phase by using the ISM method and the MICMAC analysis, the relations between the themes including educational activities, creativity and innovation, environmental factors, identity Finding and leveling the communications, research activities, organizational climate, facilities and services, technology, reputation, physical environment and human capital were found and leveled. Ultimately the final model of the research was drawn.

The present study was carried out to find the causal relationship between family function and destructive behaviors through the mediating of the cognitive emotion regulation and the theory of mind. The population included first class high school students in the city of Ahvaz. A random sample of 384 was selected by cluster sampling method. Nabavi et al destructive behaviors questionnaire (1390), Garnefsky et al. short form of cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (2001), Stillman et al. theory of mind questionnaire (1385), educational and emotional functioning scale of compatibility Family Schools (1392)were used In this study. Data analysis was done by fitting indicators to check the structural Equestion Modeling (SEM) and the test model to examine the role of mediating variables in Breaking Bootstrap Amos software. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire were also confirmed at the desirable level. Indices showed the model is a good model fit. The results of the bootstrap showed the mediating role of theory of mind and cognitive emotion regulation in the relationship between structure and function of the family in reducing destructive behaviors.