JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION
Year:2003 | Volume:32 | Issue:2|Papers Count:11

Journal of Psychologyand Education has published 179 papers during 21 years. The purpose of the present study is to explore the characteristics of paper citations in terms of type of the sources, the prominant languge of citations, as well astheir full life.To fulfill the objectivesof the study, citation and content analysis methods was applied to analyze the 2462 citations. Findings indicate that the citations are mostly "book-based", the average time interval is 8.5 years, and the prominant language of the citations is English. There can be found some type of correlation between findingsof the present study and the previous ones in the field.

Were studied that had participeted in educational course at research center of IKHC in 2001. Data were collected from two scurces: effeciency questionnaires and official documents from educational managment at IKHC. Multiple regression, path analysis,and factor analysis were used for analysis and interpretation of data. Findings indicate variables such as marital status, work experience, age, time interval of graduation from school and expertise, prportion of absence during educational course, etc were very important variables in educational performance. After factor analysis conducted on 18 variables, 13 variables were uniqe and final score in educational course was also in this uniqe. There wasa relationship between educational efficiency and educational performance. The most relationship was among educational efficiency with score in computer educational group and the least belonged to foriegn language courses.

This survey is meant to study certian aspects of human resources development in the Faculties of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Tehran University to explore the present situation. To attain its goals, Tehran University needs to expand its human resources development through the use of current models of human resources development, and relivance on scientific and logical methods. In order to explorethe gap between the current situation of human resource development and the ideal one, this study selected certain indicators such as "education","job rotation", "performance apprisal" and "career planing" in the educational services sector in the Faculties of Psychology & Education, Social Sciences, Management Economics and Physical Education. Being an applied research, the methodology employed is descriptive.The results show that the development of educational services personnel is unsatisfactory and far from the goals of human resources development.

This research has been conducted to survey the viewpoints of the faculty (members as well as the students of governmental non-Health Universities of Iran about internship courses offering Library and Information Sciences program in undergraduate level. Basic questions of the survey evaluate internship courses in terms of objectives, and the way of the courses offered. The research community are all faculty members of the 8 Libraries and Information Sciences Departments throughout the country as well as all the students who have selected internship course part 4 to study. Descriptive style of research in addition to content analysis have been used in the survey using questionnaire containing 9 closed and one open questions. Findings show that the pre-defined objectives for the internship courses are highly approved by the research community but, satisfaction with the way of the courses offered is low. The findings also revealed that the 12 units of the aforementioned courses have been left upto the libraries accepting interns and to the mercy of the librarians training them. Suggestions to improvement of the situation are the final part of the research.

This study investigated the relationship among individual variables with computer anxiety among sample of undergradute students at Tehran University.A total of 730 undergraduat including 295 females and 435 males in three majors technical-engineering,basic sciences, and humanities were administered measures of computer anxiety rating scale, trait anxiety, achievement motivation questionnaire, computer experience, and computer self-efficacy. Results indicated that signigicant negative relation between computer self-efficacy,computer experience, achievement motivation with computer anxiety, and positive relation between trait anxiety with computer anxiety. Findings revealed no signigicant difference in computer anxiety, achievement motivation, and trait anxiety between males and females. Students who majored in humanities exhibited higher computer anxiety and trait anxiety scroes as compared to students majoringin technical-engineering and basic sciences. This study indicated signigicance difference in computer self- efficacyand experience between males and females,in other words male students exhibited higher scores as compared to females. Suggestions are made for confirming these findings through further investigation.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of parental inducement of Academic Self-Regulation (ASR) on students ASR and their achievement. For this purpose, 201 high school students in grade 1 (81 boys, 120 girls) were used as the sample.These students showed their parceptions of their parents influence on their ASR, with answering the PlASR questionaire. They also answered ASR questionaire. We also used the mean of Farsi and Mathematics scores as the measure of academic achievement. Path Analysis indicated a diret effect of Parental SR inducement on students ASR and a direct effect of students ASR on achievement. ALSO, parental SR inducement Significantly predicted students achievement through mediation of students ASR. Besides multivariate regression showed encouragement as one of the most important compoent of parental SR in predicting achievement. These findings have implications for family instruction and for improving ASR.

The present study was designed to investigate the effect of painting therapy on the reduction of aggressive behavior in educable mentally retarded children. For this purpose, sixty educable mentally retarded boys with aggressive behavior were randomly selected from four educational districts in the city of Tehran. The pre- and post test design with control group was used. After matching the two groups of children, the aggressive behavior questionnaires were completed by parents. Painting therapy as an intervention programme was conducted in twelve sessions (each session 45 minutes) with the experimental group. Then the aggressive behavior questionnaires were administered in both groups. The results indicated a significant reduction of aggressive behavior in mentally retarded children in the experimental group.

The purpose of this study is to find out the role of personality traits on job performance.To this end, all of the agricultural graduate of Tehran University from academic year 88 to 98 were chosen, and by sending them NEO personality questionnaires, necessarly information from 655 graduate was obtained. NEO personality questionnaires consider five factors namely openness, agreeableness,conscientiousness,neuroticism and extraversion. In addition information about place of job, kind of job, years of employment was obtained from these questionnaires. Information about job performance, (job behaviors, expertise and skill in job, amount of work), job as related to field of study, and work provisions were collected through 513 questionnaires filled by employers. For analysis of the results the statistical method of regression was employed. The results indicated that there was no singnificant relationship between personality trait and job performance. The results show that more than 56.5 percent of the study sample were employed in realtion their study field. An evaluation of graduates by the employers shows that 47.2 percent of agricultural graduates are working at quite an acceptable level. According to these results, 7.140 percent of Agricultural graduates of Tehran University display the openness trait 63 percent coscientiousness trait at quite an acceptable level.

Children are born creative, but according to Torrance(1962),the creativity of most of them drops at about the age of ten. In assessing the etiology in formal and informal educational settings, lack of sufficient attention to creative education, especially, at the preschool and primary school level, has been implicated as the main factor. Amongst different dimensions of educatiqnal planning, the role of the teacher, as the main and pivatol pillar in evaluation and development of creativity is highly significant.Thus, appropriate attitude building and promotion of the knowledge and skills of the teachers for timely assessment and proper development of creativity, especially during childhood, should be the major goal of education, especially the twenty first century. In this article, first the informal and formal methods of assessing creativity in children has been discussed.Then the major test of creativity for children; namely, Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement (TCAM) byTorrance (1981) is described in detail.

Citations are Parts of the distinct elements in scientific writings, and play an effective role in production and dissemination of information. They are not something new but are as old as the scientific writing itself. The authors of this kind of writings have been aware of the importance of previous relevant works since the earliest times . This article intends to show the importance and necessity of the careful use of citations through presentation some examples of the citations used by a few ancient authors, and also through considering the result of three modern studies on the use of citations. From these considerations and also with regards to the state of citations in Persian scientific writings, several distinct points can be obtained. It seems that observing the criteria of these points would be remarkably effective in improving the authenticity of the scientific writings.