INNOVATION IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (JOURNAL OF MODERN THOUGHTS IN EDUCATION)
Year:2013 | Volume:8 | Issue:1 (29)|Papers Count:10

The present study has comparatively studied the teachers' communication efficiency in different educational levels of girl schools in District 2 of Kerman city and its related personal and mental factors. The population of this study consisted of 2835 female teachers in every three educational levels of District 2 in Kerman. Using Cochran's sampling formula, 339 teachers were selected as the sample of the study out of whom 97 in primary school, 50 in junior high school, and 192 in high schools. To collect data three questionnaires of communication efficiency, depression, and self- esteem were utilized. The collected data were analyzed using different methods of descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of this research include: Teachers communication efficiency in junior high school is lower than the other two levels and is the same in other two levels. Teachers' communication efficiency is high in junior high school but much higher in the other two levels. There is no significant difference between the teachers' self-esteem in different educational levels and is high in all three levels. Depression of the teachers in junior high school was more than the other two levels and the same in two other levels. Depression is low to average in junior high schools and is average in the other two levels. There is a significant relation between depression, age, work experience, educational level of teachers, and their communication efficiency.

The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between thinking styles and academic adjustment. The participants of the study were 581 students in Islamic Azad University, Khoy branch (including 298 males, 277 females, and 4 no response). The sampling method was stratified random sampling. Two standardized questionnaires were used for data collection: Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised II (TSI-R2-2007) and Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (SACQ-1989). Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation test and multiple regression. The results showed that (1) there is a positive and significant relationship between academic adjustment and Executive, Judicial, Local, Liberal, Hierarchical and External thinking styles; (2) The variables age, Judicial, Liberal, Hierarchical thinking styles have significant predictive value for academic adjustment while the variables of sex, Legislative, Oligarchic and Anarchic thinking styles have negative predictive value for academic adjustment. Nearly 19 percent of the variance of academic adjustment could be explained by the independent variables.

The purpose of this article is to study the relationship between the spiritual intelligence and organizational-citizen behavior of the faculty members in Hakim Sabzevari University in the academic year 2010-2011. This is an applied research using descriptive-correlation methodology. In this study, LISREL and SPSS were used for analyzing the data. The results indicated that spiritual intelligence of the faculty members of this university with the vectorial coefficients of 0.20, 0.29, 0.47, 0.27 affects directly on the work conscience, devotion and sacrifice, civil virtue, respect, respectively and the effect of the spiritual intelligence on the altruism with the vectorial coefficient of 0.12 was not confirmed

This research studied the relationship between family function and adolescents' identity. To this end, 320 high school students (160 boys and 160 girls) selected through a cluster random sampling from Mashhad city. The participants completed Family Assessment Device (Epstein, Baldwin, & Bishop, 1983) and Identity Dimensions Questionnaire (Rajaei, Khonezhad, & Shirazi, 1388). The data showed that individual identity has a positive relation with problem-solving and reponsiveness, and negative relation with behavior control and involvement. Also, academic identity has a positive relation with responsiveness and a negative relation with behavior control and involvement. The problem-solving and responsiveness components have positive relation with national and religious identity. Finally, there is no relationship between family function components with vocational identity

The main goal of this research is studying the relation between work ethic and the effectiveness of the staff in the Ministry of Education (District 4) in Tehran. The population of this research included all the staff (N=54). Using stratifies random sampling, 48 (23 females and 25 males) were selected as the sample size according to the Morgan-Krejcie sample size table. This study was a descriptive one. For statistical analysis, the independent t-test has been used to compare the changing conditions of men and women as well as Kruskal-Wallis to compare changing conditions in assistance parts of organization. The instruments were two questionnaires: work ethic questionnaire derived from five-factor NEO questionnaire which included 47 items and productivity questionnaire which is a researcher-made questionnaire consisting of 36 items. The overall results showed that work ethic and productivity among the staff have a significant correlation. Adequacy factors, order and power, duty, attempt to success, restraint and caution in decision making have positive impact on the staff's productivity. There is no significant difference in other subscales of work ethic as well as overall score of work ethic and productivity among men and women. According to the Kruskal- Wallis test result and based on Chi Square statistical test, there is no significant difference in subscales of work ethic of staff in different vice-presidencies of organization as well.

This paper aimed to investigate the qualitative impact of emotional intelligence on the academic success of the students in Islamic Azad University Roudehen Branch. To this end, 408 students were selected using cluster random sampling from four faculties. They were junior and senior undergraduate students, both male and female (M=137, F=271), from faculties of Education and Counseling, Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Social Sciences, and Economics and Accounting. The main instrument used in the study was Cyberia-Shrink EI questionnaire which contained 33 items all of which were based on Likert scales. Along with the questionnaire, there was a section that aimed at collecting demographic information like gender, field of study, and their Grade Point Averages (GPA). Using the Cronbach Coefficient alpha, the reliability of the instrument was calculated 0.76. The results of data analysis indicated that EI could have the predictive value to predict the academic achievement among students in the faculty of languages. Besides, EI failed to have predictive value to predict the academic achievement among students from the faculties of social sciences, economics and accounting, and education. It was interesting enough to conclude that out of five underlying construct of EI questionnaire only motivation had the predictive value to predict the academic achievement of the male students while among female students self-regulation could act as a significant predictor.

The present study aimed at upgrading the internal factors of quality education of students of Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Province. Data collection was carried out through a questionnaire with 25 items on a five-point Likert scale. Using Cronbach's Alpha, the internal reliability of the questionnaire was found to be 97%. Population included all students of Islamic Azad University of Zanjan, the number of samples (N=385) and the cluster random sampling method was used. Statistical analysis of data such as frequency, mean, standard deviation, and ANOVA were run. After analyzing the data, the following results were found: Out of indexes of quality education (teacher, student, content, and instructional material), the ones related to teachers were more important than others. Other indexes were students-related indexes, content, tools, and training materials in order of their importance. The index of familiarity with educational technology was not significantly different among the university branches.

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between self-esteem and creativity with entrepreneurship among the students of Payam-e-Noor University of Boukan. The sample included 190 students (106 females and 84 males) selected through stratified random sampling. Besides descriptive methods of mean and standard deviation, the data analyzed using multivariate regression to test hypotheses. The methodology was descriptive and correlational study. Research tools included: Self-Esteem Questionnaire (Cooper Smith, 1967), test of creativity (Abedi, 1372), and Entrepreneurship Questionnaire (Robinson et al., 1991). Multiple regression analysis of data showed that the effect of self-esteem on students' entrepreneurship was significant at the level of 0.05 in general and at the level of 0.05 separately for male and female students. Also, the correlation coefficient between self esteem and entrepreneurship equals 0.427 for all the participants (with 0.48 for females and 0.415 for males at the level of 0.01). The correlation coefficient between creativity and entrepreneurship at the level of 0.01 was significant at 0.57 in general (with 0.52 in females, and 0.58 in males).