JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION
Year:2005 | Volume:34 | Issue:2|Papers Count:12

This study has investigated the relationship between individual variables, socioeconomic status, and academic achievement. Population consisted of 524 undergraduate students (238 females and 286 males), in the Faculthy of Psychology and Education Faculty of(University of Tehran). The average of first term and average of all courses yielded a total score for academic achievement. Variables used in this study include the subjects gender, age, job status, marital status, average of diploma, type of diploma, type of admission, fathers level of education, occupational status of father and total family income. Results indicated that significant relation between type of admission and diploma and average of diploma with academic achievement. Findings revealed significant differences in academic achievement between males and females. Females exhibited higher scores as compared with males. The general implications of this study and recommendations for further research are also discussed.

In this study, the results of the faculty assessment of undergraduate students for about 500 courses in the Faculty of Psychology & Education(P & E), offered during the time of the present study was analysed. The findings indicated that the results are not independenent of the faculty members. Distribution of the students in courses showed that the number of students in about 25% of the courses were equal or less than 20; and in 56% were less than 30. Frequency disbrution of the different courses taught in these programs had a mode of equal to six. However, in some cases 8 to 9 different courses had been taught by only one faculty member.

To investigate the aspects of relationship between religious orientation & mental health, mental disorders, self-esteem, anxiety and also to assess the ability of diagnose and clarify of religious orientation scales, a series of research in two-year program were performed and gathered the results. 316 subjects in 7 groups in both genders were participated in these research in which just one group consists of women of Hoze Elmieh. To investigate the mentioned aspects, The General Health Question aire(Goldberg, 1978),The Anxiaty(state-trait) Inventory(Spielberger, 1983), The Self Esteem Measurement(Coopersmith, 1967),The SCL90Scale(Deragotis, Lipman and Covi, 1973), The Religious Coping Question aire(Pargament, 1990), The Religious Orientation Scle(BahramiEhsan,1381) were used. The results showed that religious orientation has relatignship with increase in mental health and the decrease of mental disorders and it is able to predict positively religious coping. There is a positive relationship between Selfesteem and religious orientation. In addition the current results showed the Religious Orientation Scale is able to discriminate groups with different religious orientation and this object can be used as an evidence of the discrimination validityof the scale.

Citing is an aged process, hawever, today it is one of the most important criteria to measure the links established among writings, the impact of the scientific products, as well as an index for the evaluation of the writings. The procedures and approachs lead to the criteria established in the international academic institutes. Meanwhile, some pitfalls exist in the citation process which are sometimes not easy to remove. The present paper is to review some pitfalls and challenges which seems to be existant in the ciation processes.

The Present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between family functioning (FF) and coping style(CSS). A total of 348(157 male and 191 female) students were randomly selected from 2700 high school students to compelete both Blooms family functioning(1985) and parker and Andler(1990) coping styles Questionnaire. The analysis ofthe data variance, regression and independent test) indicated that: 1) There is a significant relationship between FF and CSS:2) 12 out of 15 dimestions of family functioning showed significant relationship. with coping style; 3)There is no significant defference between males and females in choosing problem-based and emotional-based styles, hawever, they are significantly different in choosing avoid-based style; 4) males use problem-based style more than the other two styles; and 5) Females use problem-based, avoidance-based, and emotion-based styles respectively.

The relationship between attribution styles and self-esteem was investigated on Gilan university students. The subjects were 151 females & 126 males. Seligman attribution style questionnaire and Copper-Smith selfesteem inventory were used. A one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) suggests no significant relationship between self-esteem and university courses. A t- test for independent groups suggests that there were no significant relationship between male and female self-esteem. Stepwies analysis of regression showed that there were negative and significant relationship between three types of attribution (stability-instability attribution after succession, stability-instability attribution and general- specific after failure). It means that there is reduction of self-esteem with the increase of stability attribution after succession and failure, and general attribution after succession. Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) suggests that there were significant relationship between male and female students on internal-external attribution styles after succession and general- specific attribution styles after failure, it means females had more internal attribution style on positive events and more external attribution style on negative events. There were no significant relationship between different attribution style and entrance year to the university and courses. A Chi-square test showed significant relationship between entrance year to the university and internal-eXternal attribution styles after succesion.

The Purpose of this paper is to open an introduction on standardization of human resources in education. In modem times, a quality movement towards optimized and efficient education seems an essential and obvious requirement in the education systems and essentially, sources and manpower and .the quality of educating them are of the most important factors in the development and progress in any society. The present paper with a view on education as a basic system in manpower is trying to develop this question; for, we are in a situation where the educational policy makers and authorities are concerned with the reliability of standard education and this assurance is possible only when the teacher and human resources have been standardized. Thus, this paper has aimed to givean account of the most reliable sources and sites in standard concepts, their profiles and then, the development and development path of this term in the world and in Iran. The educational standards and the seven principles of standardization are studied afterwards. The discussion starts with defining the movement of education standards and climatic conditions with remarks on the cultural clusters in the ground preparation level. In continuation, five issues on the necessity of standard based education in our country and the occupational eligibility along with four major introduction on standardization are discussed. It should not be unsaid that eight concept models are pointed out as introduction for further study on the issue.

This Paper is analyzing the relationship between teachers participative managment including: * performing cooperative learning methods:(Jigsaw, STAD,...)* practice participative classroom manegerial function.* abilities and skilb as a teacher: active listening ,...and students civilsociety behavior including:* civil society knowledge:civic education,....* civil society attitudes& tendencies: tolerance, trust,...* civil society practice: cooperation, participation in rituals, ....The statistical sampel covered 300 students out of 10 middle schools in Tehran city chosen by(random) cluster sampling. Findings were analyzed by pearson product moment correlation coefficient and step wise multiple regression. the result showed a positive relationship between two main variables. out of 9 relationships, 7 is meaningful,(max:r= 0/36, min r=0/16)

Moral education is one of the important functions of educational systems. This issue is one of the challenged cases which is taken into consideration by some scholars. Since the philosophical viewpoints from one ofthe bases of educational theories, axiology tha,tis also one of the philosophical concepts will have the implications in moral education discussions. In this paper, it is tried that implications of axiology viewpoint of Allameh that in which the theory of credit perceptions is the important section, to be deduced in moral education, goals, principles and methods. Therfore, first the bases of axiology theory are discussed and then its implications are studied in the fields of goals,principles, and methods.