(JOURNAL OF INSTRUCTION AND EVALUATION) JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES
Year:2010 | Volume:3 | Issue:10|Papers Count:8

Family is the first basis and origin of personality and thinking values, which plays an important role in determining the future life style of the person. In this case, the maintenance of positive relationship between parents and their children causes their academic achievement motive. The present study was conducted with a survey correlation research method.The statistical population included all the third graders in Ilkhechi guidance schools. Using morgan table 200 students (100 male & 100 female) were selected as sample size. The method of sampling was random sampling. To collect the data, Baumrind parenting style questionnaire was used. Furthermore, the students, final examination scores were applied as an indicator of academic achievement. The results were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and a multiple regression model. `Findings revealed a significant positive relationship between academic achievement and authoritative child-rearing style.Furthermore, it was demonstrated that academic achievement has a significant negative correlation with permissive and authoritarian styles. Finally, the stepwise regression analysis suggested that the authoritative child-rearing practice is the strong predictor of academic achievement. Therefore, due to the importance of the parenting styles in the academic achievement of the students, instructing the parents about the parenting practices of the adolescents can result in the academic success of their children.

The present Study is descriptive survey and evaluates the level of TQM in public libraries in Eastern Azrbaijan and evaluates presents a procedure to promote it. Variables considered are: commitment, customer integration, training, realism, participation and cooperation and continuous improvement. The statisiticale population, was all 94 directors working in public libraries, East Azarbaijan and the tools for gathering data was researcher made questionnaire. The managers of public libraries in East Azarbaijan completed which includes six components with 42 questions. The reliability, using cronbach alpha was 0.75. The descriptive and inferentiale statistics were used to analyze the data. According to the results of t-test, there is significant difference between the status qua (sample average) and optimal (theoretical mean).The results indicate that the situation of public libraries in East Azarbaijan Province, based on totale quality management, in general, is relatively higher than average level and is considered desirable. This findings shows that clients' expectations in the public library in East Azarbaijan province are met very well.

The incorporation of asynchronous computer based communication in and out of the classroom is currently in need of a research. In present study the implementation of this technique to improve language grammar knowledge and students' interest have been investigated. To do this research, two high-schools, almost leveled, among all of the male high-schools in tabriz, through cluster random sampling with a control group (30 students) receiving traditional instruction and (30 students) as experimental group using bligging for nine sessions were choen. The research method was quasi-experimental. To collect the data the teacher made post and pre-assessment were used. To test the hyotheses, analysis of ANCOVA was used. Grammar and pupils' interest were significant but the reading comprehension was not. The result showed the students' high interest to language learning. Grammar points have encouraged them to produce language more accurately and to be more concerned abaut correctness. It could be conecluded that blogs as a social medium for learning language skills can have an important role. Therefore, the findings of this research show that the blogging has strong effect on English language learning.

The study conducted to investigate the effectiveness of experimental implementation qualitative descriptive evaluation on students’ social skill in Ardabil Province in the 88-89. Research method was Causal-comparative and increasing their participation in discussions and dialogues. Overall, 999 primary students and 99 teachers were chosen as a sample. Required data of students and teachers were collected through researcher made questionnaires. Collected data were analyzed by Spss software. The results showed that the qualitative descriptive evaluation has more effect than traditional evaluation on students' group working, cooperation, reducing competition and sampling method in both forms of evaluation (descriptive & traditional) was consus in similar schools.According to the results of this research implementing qualitative descriptive evaluation with removal of some shortcomings is recommended.

The present research has been performed with the aim of investigating the structure of high school curriculum regarding the attention paid to creativity components from the professors and experts of curriculum planning points of veiw.The present research is a survay one and its statistical population is composed of all professors, instructors and experts of curriculum planning included 104 persons.(concerning the limited statistical populatin the whole population, as the sample. The tool for gathering data was researcher- made questionnaire that was applied after determining their reliability and validity.In analyzing the data, using SPSS software in descriptive statistics of tables, distribution is used and in inferential statistics was used for analyzing the data and in first part of questionnaire we used three tests including: mean equality, Levin 2 test, F and Duncan 3 test and for the second part of questionnaire, t test is used for one sample. The results of research indicate that applying creative approaches (development of cognitive processes, student-centered approaches, social human, and humanism) in high school curriculum has a downward unfavorable tendency. Also, the rate of addressing the components of creativity from different individual and group elements has a downward tendency. But the degree of applying the approaches and tendencies toward spirituality, subject-centered tends to upward direction and approaches and tendencies such as transferring cultural heritage and being competencycentered tends to an average and downward direction.

This research was conducted to study the relationship between the classrooms goal structures and mastery goal orientation of university students. The subjects were 187 undergraduate students, including 73 males and 114 females, selected through ratio stratified sampling from Education, Social Science and Literature Departments of Azad Islamic Tabriz University. Data was gathered through survey of Blackborns’Classroom Goal Structures and Bofard & etal.Academic Goal Orientation Questionnaire. The results showed that the interesting and motivated survey class homewoark was the most important predictive factor of students' mastery goal orientation. In addition, it founded that 19% of the variance of mastery goal orientation was accounted by linear combination of motivated classhomework and mastery evaluation. Data have be analyzed by multiple regression (stepwise) and path analysis.

The aim of the present study is to investigat the relationship between the emotional intelligence with problem solving styles and students general health in 12th district of Islamic Azad University. The stiatintical population included all the students in 12th district Islamic Azad University which were studying in mid term of first education year 1388-1389.t he method was simple stratified random sampling. Using Morgan table, 384 people were selected among the 12th district Islamic Azad University branches (Roodehen, Parand, Ghazvin, Karaj).The data were collected through three standard question naires namely: emotional intellgence, general health, and solving problem, the reliability of the questionnaires using Cronbach Alfa were 0.92, 0.89 and 0.84 respectively. The results showed that in regard to persons correlation coefficient between emotional intelligence and probleom solvingther is a linear relation. But these is no relation between emotional inteligence and emotional hntelligence and problem solving don't have any effect on general health.

The present study investigates the instruction of the citizenship culture emphasis on religious teachings and e-citizenship. components to the Guidance School students with the sample of the of 283 faculty members of district 4 Islamic Azad University and that of public universities in Yazd, Isfahan, Tehran, Mashhad and Shiraz which were Humanities science, sociology and psychology professors.103 were chosen for the using random sampling method.A questionnaire with a 5-degree Likert scale was used as the data collection method. Face and content validity were used to determine the validity of the study. The 0.95 significance of the measurement tools were calculated through Cronbach's alpha coefficient which indicates a high significance of the tools. The Data analysis procedure included two levels of descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, and variance) and inferential statistics, included factor analysis, T, KR21 (x^2) and LSD tests. The results of the study showed that regarding the dimension of electronic citizen, the components of "getting to know how to confront abnormal behaviors and electronic violence" (with a significance of 0.636), "getting to know how to protect authors.rights and the consequences of rule violations" (with a significance of 0.635) and "how to learn using networks" (with a significance of 0.440) again had the highest and the lowest coefficients. In the religious teachings dimension, the component of honesty (with a significance of 0.70) and "individual hygiene" got the highest and the lowest coefficients. No significant differences found in answers to other demographical dimensions.