Educational Measurement
Year:2015 | Volume:6 | Issue:21 |Papers Count:9

This paper aims to develop a structural model-training in order to optimize the absorption in the country's banking system.The purpose of this research / development and in terms of gathering information is descriptive and correlational research.In order to achieve the goal of Correlation research methods were used.The target population included all people with managerial post in the banking industry of the Islamic Republic of Iran. They had a total of 1, 489 people.Using cluster random sampling of 305 director of state-owned banks, the National Bank Among the governmen banks has become thetprivate, banks and mellat and tejarat Among private banks pasargad bank were analyzed.Three questionnaires were used to collect data: organizational culture, Cameron and Quinn (1999), organizational strategy Conant et al (1990), the absorption and Mshvlm Bamberger (2000) and competence researcher made questionnaire was used.The results of this study showed that three types of defensive strategy, analyst and prospective and three types of cultural action, constructive and Offensive the direct effect of on the merits.too this study showed The defensive strategy, analyst strategy and futurist strategy And action culture, constructive culture and invasive culture have a direct effect on merits. Based on competency model in this study And to achieve the research objectives, it is our suggestion: Codification A training package According to research findings.

The biggest worry, discussed in tests being inequitable, is the presence of bias possibility or differential functioning. Because bias causes test validity to be suspected and doubted. Objective: In this research differential item functioning on the whole 14 blocks of mathematics tests of TIMSS in grade 8 between Iranian girls and boys has been studied using IRT approach. Method: In the order that, first, data have been recoded by SPSS and the assumption of items being unidimensional in all blocks, by NOHARM software have been studied. In the next step the best model that is known as“base model” has been fit for data by BILOG-MG software. In the next process from that base model for studying the items having differential functioning and anchor, IRTLRDIF (Thissen, 2001) has been used and at last for final estimation of item and ability parameters, MULTILOG software has been used. Findings show that from 219 items, being studied, of mathematics test in grade 8 of TIMSS 2011, 144 anchor items and 75 items have DIF and items have differential functioning and it is to the loss of girls, the focal group.

Background: Health promotion lifestyle is a multidimensional pattern of self-initiated actions and perceptions that serve to maintain and enhance the level of wellness, self-actualization and fulfillment of the individual.Objective: The main purpose of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile-II (HPLP-II, Walker, Sechrist & Pender, 1995) among Iranian university students.Method: 324 university students (130 male, 194 female) completed the HPLP-II and the Emotional Adjustment Measure (EAM, Rubio, Aguado, Hontangas & Hernandez, 2007).The confirmatory factor analysis method and internal consistency were used to compute the HPLP-II's factorial validity and reliability, respectively. Also, in order to examine the construct validity of the HPLP-II, we computed correlations between different dimensions of HPLP-II with emotional adjustment.Results: The results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated that 6-factor structure of the HPLP-II consisted health responsibility, physical activity, nutrition, spiritual growth, interpersonal relations and stress management had good fit to data in the Iranian sample. Correlational analyses between different dimensions of HPLP-II with emotional adjustment provided initial evidence for the PSRS convergent validity. Cronbach’s α Coefficients ranged from 0/56 to 0/80 for six dimensions.Conclusion: In sum, these findings provide evidence for the validity and reliability of the HPLP-II as an instrument to measure of health lifestyle among Iranian university students.

This study aimed to evaluate of realizing the cognitive goals students’ in high school and pre-university religion and life curriculum. This research is R& D and evaluative. The population consisted of students in all school districts in Tehran province (academic year 2010-2011) that were selected by multistage cluster sampling method and randomly. In order to verify the cognitive goals of religious education used achievement tests of multiple choices in six levels.To measure the progress of lower levels goals of cognitive used knowledge and understanding level tests’. Too, the measure the progress of higher levels goals of cognitive used application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation tests’to separate gradesThe results showed that was not realized in the first grade and pre-university, none of the goals of low levels of cognitive (knowledge and understanding) and High levels (application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation).While in the second and third grades was relatively knowledge level and other level were unacceptable. According to results, knowledge goals of religious education have not been realized in secondary and pre-university generally. So, suggestions are presented for improving cognitive goals.

The current study was conducted to investigate personality's fundamental factors in Iranian' s culture using personality lexical study. More than 11, 000 descriptive words were selected through Persian dictionaries and these words were reduced to 2, 700 after removing for repeated, complexes and old words. In the next step, in regard to study guideline, the selected words were categorized to five category of temperament and mood, states, social evaluation, metaphorical and physical concepts by 10 judges. In this step the researchers reached to 1, 300 words. After removing low frequency words in Iranian lexical life by 100 psychological students, final checklist was prepared by 147 word, 763 students from Tehran universities were selected by clustered random sampling and rated the final checklist. Results of exploratory factor analysis-varimax rotation was investigated to 2-7 solutions factors. In respect to literature base of factor analysis studies of personality, the focus of current research was on 5 and 6 solutions. results of this study indicated that the three factor of nervousness, agreeableness, and consciousness were resemble to NEO-PI-R and HEXACO models in spite to some partial differences; but extraversion and openness to experience factors was not extracted as independent factors and these factors was integrated in single factor; another important result of current study was the extraction the " Equanimity" factor in 5 factor solutions and " Religiousness" factor in 6 factor solutions.

Introduction: various studies have shown the relationship between religious orientation and mental health and physical health.meta-analysis ith integrating results from various researches, specifies Relationship between the variables.this Research is intended to use the meta-analytic model to examine the relevance of mental health to religious orientation.Methods: We reviewed records of all research related to the relationship between religious orientation and mental health in the Journal of Research Persian have been published 10 research that were accepted in methodological procedure selected and meta-analysis was done. Research tool was the Czech List of meta analysis and Cohen's effect size method was used to achieve the overall relationship Results: the results showed that The effect size of relationship between religious orientation and mental health equal to 0.428 was obtained and by conversion of the d value of z in normal distribution curve according to the Cohen's criteria is a high value.Conclusion: Considering the high relationship between religious orientation and mental health programs we can develop an adequate programs toan individual's religious orientation towards health promotion and treatment.

To investigate a model about body image of Iranian’s female students and determining structural relations of physical and psychological factors related to body image, 497 female students from Islamic Azad University Zarand Branch randomly selected.After measuring weight, height and calculating body mass index of participants, they assessed by body image state scale, self- esteem scale of Marsh self-concept test, the appearance schema inventory-revised, personal appearance beliefs test and body checking questionnaire. Evaluation of the proposed model with structural equation modeling (SEM) by using of maximum likelihood estimation of AMOS software and calculation of fit indices indicated that, hypothetical model has the goodness of fit with the data. Results showed that, these model direct and indirect effects of physical and cognitive-behavioral factors respectively, .417 and. 33, explain 53% of variation in body image. These findings are consistent with the results of other research, modeling in the area of body image, and furthermore, helping in better knowing complex biological and psychological structure of body image.

The aim of research refers to the evaluation of skill and compilation norms of female students skills in general Physical Education at the Shahid Rajaee teacher training University.The statistic population of research includes the whole female students at Shahid Rajaee teacher training University that are passing the general PE in Swimming & Table Tennis. The available population includes 200 university students who have passed term 1 and 2 in year 1390 & 1391, and term 1 in Year 1392. The participants at the Table Tennis were 100 students who have participated at the final tests after passing the training course at the end of the semester. The test includes forehand bouncing and forehand and backhand rally as well as the service techniques. From the 100 participants for swimming, the 24 students were omitted due to different reasons; some did not participated at the training course and some did not participated the final test. Therefore, the research is done based on the findings from the 64 remaining students at the swimming. The three tests for swimming include rotairy kick, the number of rallies at the pool length and the number of hand rallies at the pool length.Taking into consideration the achieved results from the three tests at the swimming and table tennis, the grade 6 is assigned for each test, and in total, the grade 18 is gained (from 20). The remaining grade of 2 is considered as the grade for the class homework. This is the way of grading for the general PE at the Shahid Rajaee teacher training University.Hence, there is no simillar research for skill norms at the general PE for Swimming & Table Tennis, it is impossible to compare the achieved findings with the other researches, and therefore, we just presented the achieved results.

This article presents a discourse analysis method designed to study networked cognitive communication processes in knowledge communities, such as conceptual change, higher order learning and knowledge building in synchronous and asynchronous mode of online learning.Object: The method is grounded on the meaning of critical thinking and the process of meaning construction in the group to reveal the basis of collaborative critical thinking through using discussion and leading to discussion in synchronous and asynchronous mode.Method: on the basis of longitude method of research and through 2 semesters (on 42 students) the implication of Socratic Questioning Prompt (SQP) are validated It was needed to prepare the teacher to have revised on the construction of meaning in the subject to design the process of reconstruction during discussion.Finding: Relations among the skills leaded to Ct promotion as an indicator considered in California Critical Thinking Test are estimated and approved in the paper.Conclusion: It is revealed that there are relations among the mentioned skills and a process which designed in online environment to promote critical thinking ability is approachable through Socratic Questioning Prompt.