EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES
Year:2017 | Volume:10 | Issue:2|Papers Count:10

Background and Aims: The teaching method is one of the most important elements which has a significant role in achieving the goal of education. One of the creative ways of teaching, is innovative method. Therefore present study examines the impact on creativity and innovative method of learning the army's medical students.Methods: The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design by using a control group. The population consisted of all male students in the academic year 2014-2015 in University of Medical Sciences and by using the sampling method, 32 students were selected and randomly divided into control and experimental groups. Test groups were trained in five session, 60-minute using innovative method and traditional method was used for the control group. Abedi creativity test was used to collect data and learn self-made test. Statistical test was used to data analysis, in descriptive and inferential statistics (analysis of covariance) and software spss version 20.Results: Research findings indicate an increase in creativity and all of its components and learning the experimental group students in microbiology course compared to the control group.Conclusion: According to positive impact of innovative teaching methods in increasing creativity and learning, compared to the Traditional teaching methods, it is recommended that learners training in the form of innovative teaching methods. Rather than listening to the lessons of language teaching and memorization and response surface, Through descriptions, similes and analogies, active participants in the learning process.

Background and Aims: Health education and health promotion curriculum is very important subject in order to raise awareness and develop a health culture of student. For the importance of health issues in the process of students’ health, it is necessary to establish an educational curriculum that can be able to hold all essential needs of health education.Methods: In this article, "Shannon Entropy" content analysis method is used, which discusses data processing in the content analysis using a new vison, both quantitatively and qualitatively. In Information theory, entropy is an index to measure uncertainty expressed by a probability distribution. The content of all text books the Grade sixlong with 12 main components and 58 sub-components of Health education and promotion was examined.Results: After discussing the entire six grade 8 books, the component related to mental health with 73 and physical activity with 735 cases allocate the highest frequency, and control and prevention of diseases was the least frequent with 6 frequency.Conclusion: In the content of textbooks, some components of health education not even noticed or is less significant, while health is the most important factor in development and guarantee the progress of society. So that the design, implementation and management of development programs in the healthcare, underlie basic concepts such as health more than any other factor.

Background and Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between meta-cognitive skills and self-regulation with academic performance of senior high school students in Isfahan city during academic year 2015-2016.Methods: The research is an applied research in terms of objective and correlation in terms of the nature. The statistical society of the present study was all male and female high school students in Isfahan city including 50707 individuals from which 382 students were selected using table of Kerjecy & Morgan and volume proportional random stratified sampling method. The tools used in this study were 3 questionnaire including meta-cognitive skills assessment questionnaire, self- regulation questionnaire, academic performance questionnaire. The analysis of data performed by the methods of inferential statistics stepwise regression.Results: The results show there is a direct significant relation between each of the predictor variables (Meta-cognitive and self-regulation) and criterion variable (Academic performance), also Meta- cognitive skills can predict Academic performance; this was significant predictability for self-regulation skills too.Conclusion: Knowing someone about their abilities and Awareness of cognitive and Meta cognitive strategies, improved learning and academic performance is increased.

Background and Aims: Considering a widespread view in the context of students' academic self-efficacy and identifying the predictive factors of such fields are essential for research. The aim of this study is to explain which one is more powerful in academic self-efficacy, perceived support from family or psychological resiliency.Methods: This study is based on correlation. A sample group of 234 individual in University of Guilan students were selected using multi-stage random cluster sampling method. Students' academic self-efficacy questionnaire and the superego, Connor and David Sono Resilience Scale Family Social Support Scale questionnaire were used in order to collect the data. SPSS software is used in order to calculate the data.Results: Correlation results show family perceived social support and resilience have a positive and significant correlation with self-efficacy in the error level of (P<0.01). Stepwise regression analysis shows that psychological resiliency has a significant correlation with academic self-efficacy only in one step and finally psychological resiliency significantly explains 0/30 of the variance in students' academic self-efficacy.Conclusion: In order to answer the main question of this research we can conclude that although family perceived social support and resiliency variables have a positive relationship with academic self-efficacy variable, the predictability power of psychological resiliency for academic self-efficacy is more.

Background and Aims: The use of mobile phones has recently become an indispensable part of life. Although mobile phones have several advantages, their excessive use can make individuals prone to dependence. The present descriptive correlational study aimed to explore the relationship between problematic mobile use and academic performance among students by considering the mediating role of sleep quality.Methods: The study was a descriptive correlational design. Stratified multi-stage sampling based on gender was used to select 172 students (101 females, 71 males) among the students of the Kashan University of Medical science and Health Services. The respondents filled out Cell-Phone Over-Use Scale (COS), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). In addition, students’ pervious term Grade Point Average (GPA) was considered as the criterion for their academic performance. Pearson product moment correlation and hierarchical regression analysis were run in Spss (Version 22) to analyze the data.Results: The results revealed that excessive mobile use has a statistically significant negative relationship with academic performance and can inversely predict it (P<0.01, t=-6.93, b=-0.46). Also, the results of hierarchical regression analysis indicated the mediating role of sleep quality in the relationship between problematic mobile use and academic performance.Conclusion: Despite their beneficial uses, excessive use of mobile phones can have negative influences on sleep, mental health, and academic performance of students. Hence, it is highly important to help students use mobile phones purposefully, efficiently, and safely and enhance their knowledge of the negative effects of excessive mobile use.

Background and Aims: Self-assessment is the lost ring of all educational system and the most important tool of continuous improvement. this study aimed to evaluate the self assessment of different master degree students.Methods: The study is a descriptive survey. The statistical pupulation (N=89) were included all graduate student of midwifery and nursury college student of hamedan medical university in 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 academic year. Using ratio stratifed sampling method 73 students were selected as study sample. The data gathering instrument were student self-assessment researcher made questionnaire that its validity reported as acceptable by experts and its reliability using alpha cronbach coefficient computed equal to 0.83. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics and t-test and Friedman rank test was used.Results: Research findings showed that the self-assessment components are self initiation, self independent, responsibility, self monitoring and self reporting.The students self-assessment components average were as following: Self-initiated (3.12), responsibility (3.55), independence (3.87), self-monitoring (3.02) and self report (4.12) and the Total average of Self-assessment were (3.53) and there was no significant difference between girl and boys student amount of self evaluation.Conclusion: In order to internalize and improve student self assessment, it is recommended to provide appropriate mechanisms to encourage teachers to use interactive and non-interventional teaching styles in the process of teaching and learning.

Background and Aims: This study aimed to Survey the partnership rate of medical sciences universities with other sectors of society, in terms of faculty members.Methods: The methods of this study was descriptive- survey. The statistical population were all faculty members of Fars University of medical sciences. The sample consist of 152 faculty members who were selected through stratified sampling.Researcher made questionnaire was used to collect the data. In order to assess the validity of questionnaires, professors and several experts were asked their opinions about the validity of questions and according to their comments, questionnaires defects were resolved and last modified of questionnaires text was done and the final form of the questionnaire was designed. The reliability of the questionnaire was estimated through Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.875. T-test was used to test the research questions.Results: The results showed that although the average score of respondents about the effective partnership level of medical universities with other sections are more than average, but it is far to reach the ideal situation.Conclusion: medical sciences universities should be more partnerships with other sectors of society.

Background and Aims: One of the most important topics of research in universities, is the flexibility of doctors, and diagnosis of its predictor variables, is very important. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of cybernetic management functions on the flexibility of doctors in the Hospitals of Tabriz.Methods: This study is descriptive and correlational.150 doctors, in hospitals of Tabriz University of Medical Science, were selected through census sampling and answer to questionnaire of Cybernetics Management functions, Ghorbanzadeh (1389), and the Wright and Snell flexibility questionnaire (1996) responded, both of which were valid and highly reliable. Data collected using the Lisrell 19 software and were analyzed by SEM method.Results: Our findings show that the function of cybernetic management systems is effective on the development of the flexibility of Doctors in the Medical Science, and showed that the functions of Cybernetics management system: participatory decision making, organizational commitment, proper flow of information, equity in pay, flat structure, develop a sense of ownership and continuing education respectively to cause 0.63, 0.91, 0.92, 0.92, 0.88, 0.25, 0.83, 0.69 change unit on the flexibility of doctors in the Hospitals of Tabriz University of Medical Science.Conclusion: this study shows the importance of cybernetic management functions, in explaining the flexibility of doctors. Thus providing training based on the use of cybernetic management functions, in hospital environments, will lead to increase the flexibility, and thus better manage performance will be achieved in doctors.