JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION
Year:2008 | Volume:37 | Issue:4|Papers Count:9

This study mainly examines the impact of globalization on curriculum content. The research is a descriptive survey method. The statistical population of the research includes: 1) all the staff experts in education, and 2) all the educational sciences' faculty members in 1382-1383. The sampling method of the research is a purposed type for the staff experts in education, and a numeration one for the educational sciences' faculty members. Some 110 people were selected as the research sample. The main instrument for data gathering was an open ended questionnaire; the consistency instrument for data gathering was an open ended questionnaire; the consistency of reliability was calculated by Cronbach Alfa coefficient, which was 0.95. The research also employed one interview format. The findings showed that, curriculum content should be more proper to the labour market needs, more appropriate to students abilities, more integrative, and less differentiate, regarding the impact of globalization on curriculum content.

This study analyzes and compares the professional ability of elementary teachers having a bachelor in "elementary teaching" with other teachers having a bachelor degree in other fields in the city of Esfahan. To do so, six major dimensions were compared, including: 1) teaching methods, 2) the degree of student activation, 3) methods of interaction with students, 4) information and professional knowledge, 5) applications of instructional instruments, and 6) evaluation methods. Regarding to the abundance of details, only the first three dimensions are examined in this paper. Survey and causal-comparative methods were used in this study. In the survey method, viewpoints of managers, teachers and guide teachers; and in the causal- comparative method, the average score of academic success of students was analyzed and compared. Findings revealed that teachers having a bachelor in elementary teaching had significantly better performance in two of the dimensions, teaching methods and interaction with students. But there was no significant difference in the degree of student activation, between two guoups of teachers.

In order to explore the relationship between implicit theories of intelligence and self -efficacy beliefs, 400 college students (160 males, 240 females) who were studying in the field of math and human sciences were chosen by cluster sampling. For evaluating implicit theories of intelligence a researcher made questionnaire, for measuring general self-efficacy schwarzer and Jerusalem general self-efficacy scale 2000) and for academic self-efficacy, Bandura (2000) questionnaire were used. The results showed that implicit theories of intelligence predict self-efficacy (general and academic beliefs).There was no sex differences in implicit theory of intelligence but this difference was observed according to the field of study. Female students in comparison with male students had higher general self efficacy. There was a difference between self-efficacy of math and human sciences students.

The major aim of this study is to examine the relationship between teacher's participation in decision making in schools' affairs and their morale, in the primary, guidance and secondary schools, in Shahreza and Dehaghan. Cities the study is a correlational type; the population consist of 3392 teachers; 150 teachers are randomly sampled; and the data has been gathered with two questionnaires. The results indicate that there is a positive significant relationship between teachers' participation in schools' affairs and their morale (p £/01 ) there are significant differences between teachers' participation and their morale regarding gender(p £/05) and schooling grades(p £/ 01 ).

This research is conducted to investigate the relationship between birth order, of the birth time and prevalence of physical, mental & sensory motor disabilities. For this, 3857 child and youths (5-25) were selected from rural and urban regions, Results showed that there was a relationship between birth order & prevalence of disabilities. On the other hand, first children of the families with several children were more at risk. This finding was same for birth time. i, e, those infants that were born in Isfand & Farvardin months, were at risk in contrasting to the other months. Applied recommendations were presented at the end of articles.

Today, effective and standard human resources are among the important apprehensions of educational systems and behavior, knowledge and performance standards are, Inter alia, the most fundamental options in selecting qualitative human resource. In this artic1es-typs research, a conceptual model, scientific and global resources as well as localization approach in Iran are applied. In this line, 140 individuals (65 female and 75 male) were selected from 2628 administrators of Tehran's high/preuniversity schools by using a layer method. They answered a 40-item questionnaire in two scientific (12 questions) and performance (28 questions) aspects. By applying non-parametric test of Yumen Withney and Kroskal Valice as well as calculating the value of mentioned characteristics in the rate of options acceptance was measured and following results were achieved: (1) Provided model is considered highly suitable for assessing scientific aspect by more than 90 percent of administrators.(2) Provided model is also considered highly suitable for assessing performance aspect by more than 90 percent of administrators. (3) In scientific aspect, "being aware of the general objectives of the organization and school in order to plan correctly" is considered as the highest priority by high school administrators. (4) In performance aspect, “analyzing managerial weak/strength points" is considered as the highest priority by high school administrators.

This research accomplished on short time education periods in the course of duty in order to study effective factors on participation elementary course teachers in Borkhar of Isfahan. A sample of 186 teachers were includes in this study. The effective factors consisted of 5 components: 1) Convened period quality; 2) Convened period time; 3) Teaching method of period teachers; 4) Privileges of every period; 5) Interchanged professionally experiences and organizational information. Questionnaire contains 35 closed - questions and 2 open - ended questions. Results showed that convened periods quality and privileges for every education period have more significant effects than 3 the other factors. In interchanged professionally experience and organizational information factors were significant difference between woman and man views significant differences between various educational level of teachers were in convened This difference studied by turkey pursuit test between groups.

This research was designed to determine the relationship and relative share of four domains of emotional intelligence variables (emotional awareness, emotional facilitation, emotional understanding and emotional control) as predictors of organizational transformation approach among the principals of Isfahan province. A sample of 63 was selected through a multistage cluster sampling and simple random sampling method from all Isfahan principals in year 2005. The research instruments were Mayer and Salovey Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (1990) and a researcher-made questionnaire which its reliability was computed. 82 according to the Alpha of Cronbach. The major findings of the research were:1. Correlation coefficient showed a positive and significant relation between emotional intelligence and its four domains and organizational transformation approach.2. Among the four domains of emotional intelligence, emotional facilitation variable .428 and emotional understanding .384 were recognized as anticipators of organizational transformation approach among the principals of Isfahan province 3. Fisher's test (z) showed a significant correlation between emotional intelligence and organizational transformation approach among the principals degree (bachelor and master), experience (up to 10 years) and age (30 to 40 years).