Educational R esearch

Principals', counselors' and teachers' understanding of the role and tasks of school counselors(Case Study Norabad city)

Sakine Ashrafi

The goal of the present study is exploratory data analysis of the role and tasks of school counselors of Delfan city. This research is a quantitative one with a focus on correlational method. The study population consists of all principals, counselors and teachers of Noor Abad City among whom 250 were chosen randomly. To determine the role and tasks of school counselors, a questionnaire prepared by the present researcher containing 28 questions was used. To analyze the research data spss software descriptive statistics (percent, frequency, average and correlation) and inferential statistics (factor analysis and one-sided variation analysis) are used. The results of exploratory factor analysis showed that five components of the planning and development of educational guidance, the role of growth and development of students' intellectual faculties, the role of the evaluation of students, the role of the development of students' characters and the role of consultation and collaboration with a working group of employees showed a total of 57/5 of the total variance. Results also showed the school administrators', counselors' and teachers' perception of the school counselor’s roles of the planning and development of educational guidance, the role of the development of students' characters and the role of consultation and collaboration with a working group of employees and tasks are different.

Effect of teaching acceptance and commitment to self-criticism and perceived competence in students with experience of self-injury

Jafar bahadorikhosroshahi

The aim of this study was the effect of teaching acceptance and commitment with self-criticism and perceived competence in students with experience of self-harm. Quasi experimental research design and pretest-posttest control group design. The population of male high school students in the academic year 2016-2017 was the city of Tabriz. To select a sample from a boys' school to two secondary school and purposive sampling of 26 students, according to advisor and teacher at the experience of self-harm were selected and randomly divided into two groups of 13 students (experimental group) and 13 students (control group) were included. To collect the data, Self-criticism questionnaire Thompso & Zuroff, perceived competence, Harter and training acceptance and commitment programs were. Data analysis was performed using multivariate analysis of covariance. Results showed that teaching acceptance and commitment on self-criticism and perceived competence influences students with the experience of self-harm. In fact, active learning and increased self-criticism reduces the perceived competence students with the experience of self-harm can result. Therefore, active education on self-criticism and improvement of competencies students with the experience of self-harm are recommended.

Examining ICDL Teachers' Knowledge and Skills in the Teaching Process

In recent years, the use of modern technologies has grown Strongly in the teaching process. Today, one of the key challenges in using ICT in schools is the level of ICDL teachers' knowledge and skills in the teaching process.The present study was conducted to examine the level of ICDL teachers' knowledge and skills in the teaching process in the academic year of 94-95. The statistical population of this research is all teachers of high school in qeydar city that 70 people were selected according to Morgan table with random cluster sampling method. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data. Its validity was estimated by a group of professors, educational specialists and some teachers, and its reliability was estimated using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. In general, the results of this study showed that the computer skills and knowledge of teachers in the teaching process are moderate. Also, inferential statistics analysis showed that there is no statistically significant difference between the gender variable and the level of knowledge and computer skills of teachers in the teaching process. And also inferential statistics analysis has shown that there are meaningful statistics differences between gender variables, age, education and level of knowledge and skills computer of teachers in teaching process.

studying the Problems Concerning the Internship (Teaching Practice) Course from the Farhangian University Students' Point of View

Heshmatollah Mortazavizadeh

Abstract

Internship is the apex of teacher training which converts learning situations into pportunities for the student-teacher's success.The present paper aims at identifying the problems concerning the internship (teaching practice) course in Farhangian University and finding appropriate solutions to overcome them in order to improve the quality of the internship course to prepare student teachers to get into the profession of teaching. Questionnaires were used to collect data for the present descriptive research. The participants in the research are the same as the whole statistical population. For data analysis, frequency and frequency percentage in descriptive statistics were used. Findings show that the most important problems regarding the internship course are observing teachers in urban schools while having their initial employment in rural ones, teachers' lack of time for discussion with the students on reviewing and criticizing teaching methods and on overcoming the potential problems, school teachers' insufficient skills in using media and new educational technologies, school teachers' low understanding of the educational theories, developmental psychology, and learning theories, and finally school teachers' insufficient mastering on using appropriate teaching methods and models.

Effect of Educational pattern Training on Parent-Child Relationship and Critical Thinking

Massoumeh Esmaeili

Parents and children from tender age through adolescence continue to renew relationships with each other. This study aims to show how Training Educational pattern influenced the Parent-Child Relationship subsequent critical thinking. In this study quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group method was used. Statistical population of all female students in twelfth grade schools in Birjand is intended to achieve the main objective of this study. Pattern group was achieved by using the cluster sampling multistage method. A typical school in the city of Birjand was randomly chosen with a class considered as a sampling unit and finally the samples generated are divided into experimental and control groups. Questionnaire used were based on variables of Parent-child relationship (Fine, Morland and Schwebel,1983), and critical thinking (Ricketts, 2003). Data generated were analyzed through Multivariate covariance examination. The result indicates that parent-child relationships are improved by Educational pattern. Also it was demonstrated that relationship improvement due to Educational pattern increases children’s critical thinking in the aspect of creativity& commitment. It should be noted that according to the results besides the improving parent-child relationships due to educational model training, critical thinking dispositions in children is increased as well.

The Role of 6th Grade Curriculum Development on Encouraging Students to Read

marjan kian

The purpose of this study was to determine the role of sixth grade curriculum in encouraging students to study. Qualitative research method is in the form of analyzing qualitative content and basic theory as process, not as a product. The population of the study was all sixth grade elementary school textbooks in 2012-2013 and sixth grade elementary school teachers in Karaj. The informants were 9 textbooks by census method and 19 teachers from the sixth grade by purposeful sampling and observing theoretical saturation. The research tool is a semi-structured content analysis checklist and interview. The findings suggest that sixth-grade textbooks encourage students to directly and indirectly study. There are concepts in the textbook that asks students to study and collect information from a variety of sources. Teachers sometimes encourage students to study but they do not consider the process. Varied resources and materials that encourage students to study in elementary schools.

The effect of communication skills training through multimedia on the self-esteem of female students with hearing loss

azar khazai

The current study aims to peruse the effectiveness of teaching communicative skills through multimedia on the self-esteem of girl students with hearing problem. The research methodology is of semi empirical type and statistical population encompassed the whole girl students with hearing problem at sixth grade in Tehran city. With sampling method, thirty students were selected and randomly were divided into two groups: control and experiment. The tool for collecting data in this study was Kupper smith's self-esteem questionnaire. This scale has fifty eight questions in which fifty questions are evaluating the self-esteem and eight questions are lie detectors. Totally the fifty questions are divided into four subscales naming: total self-esteem, social self-esteem, family self-esteem and educational self-esteem. the grades are one and zero and the answers are whether yes or no. the experiment group was trained through multimedia software which is built by the researcher , and the control group was kept away from the independent variable . For checking the changes, first a pre-test was conducted on both groups. After the pre-test was conducted, the experiment group was exposed to independent variable and post test was conducted on both groups. Statistical approaches in two levels of descriptive (central and dispersal indexes) and deductive ( covariance' s single variable analysis )were used for analyzing the research's data. Generally the results showed that students' self esteem increased by teaching communicative skills by using multimedia.