Technology of Education Journal
Year:2018 | Volume:12 | Issue:3 |Papers Count:9

School yard is a part of the physical space which can have a significant impact on raising the level of learning, growth and education of students. Neglecting these spaces in recent decades represents the necessity of attention to this issue. Therefore, the present study seeks to emphasize the importance of open spaces in schools in order to improve the current conditions of schools according to the needs of students as the main beneficiaries. In order to meet these goals, Using a descriptive-analytical method based on library studies and field studies, eight elementary girls’ schools were randomly selected and studied in Tabriz city. In this paper, it has been tried to use collaborative methods such as drawing, writing, and interviewing students about their expectations of the school's yard. A total of 082students were interviewed and their paintings were examined. The data were coded in MAXQDA11 software and finally, to assess the students’ satisfaction the paired t-test and Wilcoxon test were run using SPSS software. The results indicate that there is a significant difference between the state of the school yard and its ideal state. Finally, some suggestions are provided to improve the quality of the school yards. The findings of the study could be used in designing elementary schools such as: increasing the connection between outdoors and indoors, division of functions, using of the flexible materials with pretty colors on the floor and walls, and using of the flexible furniture.

Accessibility is one of the important indicators in obtaining students' and teachers' interest in a courseware. Therefore, the present study aimed to identify the effective factors impacting on the accessibility of Shahid Beheshti University’ s courseware. Accordingly, a qualitative phenomenology research has been implemented. The population of this study is undergraduate students of the Faculty of Education and Psychology of Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran who had an experience of working with the courseware. 15 Participants were selected using purposeful sampling method. Semi-structured interviews were conducted for data gathering until the theoretical saturation was achieved. The findings were analyzed using Strauss and Corbin coding method at two open and axial coding levels. According to the findings from 15 interviews, six categories including: the weakness of quick access to the content of discussions, the lack of off-line access to the discussions, not suitable access to the content on multiple platforms, lack of ability to display online users, the weakness in access to discussions of the previous groups; and lack of student access to their performance results, were identified. These factors could help e-learning administrators and designers to provide a better and more qualified experience for their students and faculties.

The present study aims to identify the role of computer games and educational failure of highschool students of Tehran. The research method is correlational and survey data collection method has been used. The statistical population of the study includes 27535 Tehran’ s highschool students (Region 3). The sample size was estimated to be 385 by Cochran formula, selected by multi-staged cluster sampling method The data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. Face validity and content validity were confirmed by some experts and supervisors. In addition, its reliability based on Cronbach’ s alpha for social class was. 80, for Internet & game questionnaire was. 71 and for educational failure questionnaire was. 72. Data were analyzed by SPSS software, quantitative and descriptive statistics, multiple Pearson correlation test, T-test, and One Way Analysis of Variance. The results show that 88% of students have access to the Internet. Their primary access means include mobile phones and the average use of the Internet is 4 hours and 23 minutes. 41% play computer games, 65% use mobile phones and 17% use PlayStation to play games. The daily average of playing computer games is 2 hours and 55 minutes. From among the games, war games have been allocated the highest frequency. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between computer games, types of computer games, Internet access, gender, age, major, social class and educational failure of students.

The present study determines the relationship between emotional intelligence and its components and anxiety symptoms among country Olympiad students in educational year 1393-94. The study used a descriptive-survey research design. The population included 380 Olympiad male students from middle schools in Iran in educational year 1393-94. 181 students were selected based on Morgan table. The instruments included: Scale (TMMS) which is an objective self-report questionnaire based on emotional intelligence model and made by Salovey et al to assess three components of emotional intelligence; and Beck Anxiety scale (BAI) with 21 items and made to assess anxiety level. The method of data analysis in this study was correlation coefficient, one-way variance analysis and regression. The findings showed that there is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and its components and anxiety symptoms among Olympiad Students. In addition there was no relationship between the component caring for the feelings and anxiety symptoms. The component feelings clarity also correlated significantly with anxiety symptoms. Finally, there was no significant correlation between the component feelings renewal and anxiety symptoms.

The research has been conducted in an attempt to examine the effect of Flipped classroom on self-directed learning in English language classes. The participants were female 10th grade students of Kaleybar in academic year 2016-2017. The research is a quasi-experimental one and is performed using the pre-test, post-test method with a control group. Participants in the study were 30 students selected by convenience sampling and randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. For data collection, the self-directed learning questionnaire was used with a reliability of. 82 for the whole test and with face and content validity approved by the experts. Data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS software. The results of ANCOVA showed that Flipped Classroom influenced the self-directed variable (with the exception of self-management) in learning with the help of covariate (pre-test) (p <. 05). Also, the mean scores of students at the pre and post-test in the experimental group were significantly different. The mean scores of self-directed learning for students trained through Flipped Classroom were higher.

The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers’ technology literacy in the national curriculum on Education and Training in Work and Technology. This research is conducted as a descriptive study using content analysis technique. The population was three main education documents including National Comprehensive Scientific Map; The Fundamental Transformation of Education Document; and The National Curriculum Document. Data collection instruments were checklists. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to determine the frequencies and test the results of univariate t-test and Kruskal-Wallis test. Gutmann factor was used to test the reliability. The results show agreement between. 48 to. 95 coefficients for the validity checklists using content validity. The findings of the study show that the level of attention to teacher technology literacy in National Curriculum in the Domain of Teaching and Education Work and Technology was higher than average; and to a largely extent it is appropriately cared for. There is no significant difference between technology literacy standards in terms of compliance with the competencies intended for teachers.

Considering the effect that academic spaces can have on the audience and users of these spaces, the present study aims to provide guidelines for designing open university spaces based on increasing the vitality and social interactions among users and improving the level of education among them. The present research tries to identify the factors affecting the promotion of vitality and social interactions from the users' perspective, drawing the correlation between these factors in an analytical model. In the current study, both quantitative and qualitative research methods have been used. After formulating the contents of the content table and the questionnaire, the sample size based on Klein's views reached 341 according to the number of questionnaires. Therefore, students from architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and civil engineering at Iranian universities were randomly selected by cluster sampling. The data were analyzed by SPSS version 22 using R factor analysis. The model was developed by Amos. The results of this research indicated that social, physical, designing and psychological dimensions of the environment are influential.