JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION
Year:2004 | Volume:34 | Issue:1|Papers Count:9

The aim of the Present study was to examine the relationship between parental perfectionism and students test anxiety. 422 third grade students (237 girls, 205 boys) and 386 of their parents (212 mothers, 174 fathers) were included in this study. All students and their parents were asked to complete Test Anxiety Inventory and the Farsi Version of the Positive and Negative Perfectionism Scale, respectively. The results revealed that parental positive perfectionism was negatively associated with childrens test anxiety and parental negative perfectionism was positively associated with childrens test anxiety. Parental positive perfectionism is supposed to reduce childrens test anxiety through realistic expectations, reinforcement of self-esteem, and parent-child positive interactional style. And conversely parental negative perfectionism seem to increase childrens test anxiety through unrealistic expectations, impoverishment of self-esteem, and parent-child negative interactional style.

In the first stance, constructivism is against realism. While realists insist that our true knowledge corresponds to reality, constructivists reject idea of correspondence and claim that the mind is independent from reality in its work of providing constructs. Thus, so far as knowledge is concerned, constructivist psychologists like Geoge Kelly and Jean Piaget have appealed to the notion of adjustment, rather than correspondence, to reality. Even though constructivists are right in claiming that correspondence to reality is problematic, their critique is tenable solely in the case of naive realism. However, it is argued that we can keep talking about correspondence to reality without rejecting the constructive ability of the mind. This is because, epistemologically speking, the notion of correspondence is crucial for the truth of our theories, while on the other hand, adjustment to reality falls short of being the adequate criterion for truth. The instrumentalist position on knowledge constructs from distinguishing between the adequacy and truth of constructs. It is concluded that we can Keep the insights of constructivists on the theory-leadenness of facts without leaving aside the notion of correspondence to reality. In fact, constructivism meeds to be more realistic.

In the present study an attempt has made to investigate on the relation between students ratings of the faculty and GAPs of the courses taught by the faculty for which the students ratings of the faculty were available. The correlation coefficient was found to be very small(r= 0.135, P<0.01). Moreover, correlation coefficients between GAPs of the courses taught by the faculty and each of the first four questions of the rating questionnaire was also calculated, apart from the second question which shows very weak correlation(r= 0.135,P<0.01),no significautcorrelation was observedfor the rest.

In this research, the structural equation modeling of computer anxiety is tested among undergraduate students at Tehran University. 730 students (295 females and 435 males) were given computer self- efficacy, computer experience,achievementmotivation, computer anxietyand trait anxietyscales. Iri this model computer self-efficacyand computer anxiety were latent endogenous constructs and others were latent exogenous constructs. The structural equation model showed insufficient fit (CFI=0.91, SRMR= 0.048). Findings revealed the sigmficant relationship between individual characteristics, computer experience with computer self-efficacy and computer anxiety.

This article is based on a study aimed to evaluate the quality of training programs offered to Iran-Khodro Company by training institutions during 2000-2001, using CIPP Model. In this study, a total of 742 individuals were selected from groups: (a) program participants(528),(b) their immediate supervisors(126), (C) office managers(9),(d) program trainers(72), and (e) managers of training institutions(8). Different sets of questionnaires and interview checklists were used to collect data which were later analyzed by using both descriptive(frequency and average )and inferential statistics(K-square).The findings indicated that the context for offering these programs are somewhat desirable in selected training institutions. In addition, each institution is more effective in certain training area. The article ends with some recommendations for further improvement of these training programs.

The main goal of this research is to provide an explicit scene about the Present situation of indexing and abstracting services in Iran. It studies 45 information centers which produce indexing and abstracting services, in terms of their subject fields, databases, Publications, indexing methods, indexing languages, thesauri which are used as controlled vocabularies, qualification of managers, numbers of indexers and abstractors, hindrances and limitations which they face. Finally it suggests means for improvements in the situation.

The aim of this study is comparing s,elf-regulated learning strategies in both students and their parents by focusing on the role of gender and performance achievement. The sample contained 120 girl and boy students in first grade secondary school in Tehran which were selected by random sampling. Data was collected through students self-regulated learning strategies questionnaire and parents self-regulated questionnaire. Data analysis showed that there isnt significance diffrences between girls and boys in self-regulated learning strategies and there isnt significance differences between girls parents and boys parents in self-rgulation. But there is significant diffrences between Self-regulation high and moderate achieving groups with the low achieving ones, and also there is significant diffrences between parents of self-regulation high and moderate achieving groups with the low achieving ones.

During the centuries Jews have claimed and believed that they are selected by God(yahooveh). It causes to relate their religion to their race and so Judaism has remained only for them, and others were prohibited it. Jews believe that prophecy was allocated for them and non-Israelit prophets were not pure and valid and resurrection is the day of vegeance from Jews enemies. Education end of Judaism emphasizes national identification of Jewish people and some of their educational patterns are not acceptable countenanus compared to the educotional principles.

The Purpose of this study is to Identify the Islamic educational concept froin the holley Qurans point of view in children litrature. This study is Considered in 4 category and 2 section. The categories considers the relation between Human and The God, own, others and nature that is examined in the Holley Quran and in the 283 selected childrens stories aged 8-15 written by Iranian authors in 1980-2000. The result of this study suggests that in the Holley Qurans, 39.1 percent of concepts referes to relationship between Man and the God, 37 percent to the relation between human with own, 17.2 percent is relation between others, and 6.7 percent with nature. With childrens litrature, 19.4 percent refers to relation between Man and God, 42.2 percent with own, 32.8 percent with others and 5.5 percent with nature.