نشریه آموزش و ارزشیابی
پیاپی 21 (بهار 1392)

This paper studied physical space conditions and equipment (educational and training) and compared them with the standards and indicators of national development programs in both public and non-public secondary schools in the city of Tabriz in the academic year. The methodology of this research in terms of objective was practical and in terms of the type¡ was descriptive survey. The population of this paper was 321¡ which consisted of all public and non-public schools along with their principals. Statistical samples included 114 secondary schools and their principals and 20 secondary educational experts that were stratified randomly selected. Questionnaires and organization of renovations school''s standards and indicators of national development programs were used to evaluate the space and equipment conditions. The extracted SPSS results of this research are as follows: The status of educational spaces and school buildings from the location point of view (distance from air pollution¡ noise pollution¡ factories and etc.) was desirable¡ the level of educational equipment was average and the qualification of training spaces was undesirable. The average of per capita educational spaces¡ except training spaces is lower than the average of per capita standards of schools renovation. All secondary schools in the city of Tabriz had reached the first indicator of national development program (the student''s population indicator) and were desirable and in other indicators were far from the document of country development

The aim of the present study was to investigate the assessment of the educational courses held for cooperative corporations in east azarbaijan province. The statistical population consisted of 7593 people, including all the people participated in educational classes. Using the Morgan table the sample size was 357 people. The sampling method was clustering. To gather the data, researcher made questionnaire for effectiveness based on kirk Patrick pattern was used. Using cronbach's Alpha the reliability was 0.94.To analyse the data the descriptive and inferential statistics were used. Since the results showed that holding educational courses for cooperative corporations was higher than average, ie. (3/86). Among the four dimensions of effectiveness: reaction, learning, behavior and outcome, the results were 3/99, 3/84, 3/72 and3/70 respectively. According to these results it can be said that the courses were more effective in transferring the concepts rather than performance. This might be because of the emphasis on theoretical aspect and lack of motivation among the learners for obtaining knowledge and change.

The present study aimed at investigating the rate of using mobile phones in classroom between high-school male and female students in district 1 and 2 in Sanandaj city. The research method was descriptive-survey. The statistical population included 24450 students. Using cluster sampling from six male and six female school 42 classroom were chosen, out of which 1042 students were selected through random sampling. The result showed that 82.4 percent had personal mobile and 17.6 percent didn’t have one. Among the students 55.2 percent would take their mobile to school. Those who took mobile to school would put it in silent mode comprise 97.3 percent and only 3.7 percent would have it on. The results also showed that there was a significant difference between gender in reading the SMS and answering it in the classroom. But there wasn’t a significant difference between male and female relating to forwarding SMS while in the class. Concerning the use of Bluetooth there was a significant difference between male and female students. There was a significant difference regarding using mobile for cheating in the examination.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between studying approaches and math anxiety with academic achievement in mathematics. For this purpose, 166 students (98 male and 68 female) were randomly selected with cluster sampling from Islamic Azad University branch Abadan that they are enrolment in pre-mathematics courses in the second semester of the 1389-90 year. The Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students scale and Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Anxiety Scale were used respectively for measuring studying approaches and mathematics anxiety, Final exam scores was considered as achievement in mathematics. The Pearson correlation test didn’t show a significant relationship between deep, strategic and surface studying approaches with mathematics achievement. Mathematics anxiety had negatively significant related to mathematics achievement and also all subscales of studying approaches had a significant relation with mathematics anxiety. Using the structural equation modeling for identifying relations between studying approaches and math achievement in the presence of math anxiety indicated a surface studying approach has a negative indirect significant effect on mathematics achievement. The result shows that students with surface studying approach show a weaker performance in mathematics, even in the non-deep tests. The results of this study can be used in academic counseling to increase mathematics achievement.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of life skills instruction on coping strategies in first grade high school students of Tabriz. For this purpose, 60 female high school students selected by cluster sampling multi-stage method and were assigned to control and experimental groups (each group consisted of 30 subjects). Experimental groups recrivd weekly training life skills during the 12 sessions, but the control group did not receive training. Mouse and Bilinger’s Coping Styles questionnaire (1981) was used in pre-test and post-test for both experimental and control groups. For analyzing the data, covariance was used. The results showed that training life skills increase scores of coping styles significantly. According to the results, it can be said that training life skills can be applied as an effective method for adolescence to deal with concerns and their problems.

This study was administered to examine the effect of none affiliated academic institutes exams on the male student's educational achievement, anxiety and self-esteem of the pre-university experimental sciences discipline in Khoy. The research method was descriptive survey. The statistical population was 360people out of which 220 people participated and 140 people didn’t participate in the exams. To gather the data, Cooper Smith self-esteem questionnaire and Abolghasmi`s anxiety test were used. The reliability of them was 0.94 and 0.83. The descriptive and inferential statistics (student's t test. Box- and – whisher plot, and SPSS software were used to analyze the data. The results showed that was significant difference between academic achievement and exam anxiety, but there was not a significant difference between the participants in self-esteem.

The aim of this study was the comparison of Information-Seeking Behaviour with using Internet in Arts and science university students and it has been done with descriptive method. Research sample consisted of 250 university students who were selected randomly between the Arts and science students of Islamic Azad University Dezfoul Branch. Data needed was gathered by researcher- made questionnaire that was about Information-Seeking Behaviour. Research findings indicated that there was a significant difference between the Arts and science students about the knowledge of using email, using internet throught off line, the kind of used engines, using optimal strategies of search engines and learning how to use the internet. The results also showed that there was no significant difference between the two groups about the ability of setting up a web log, familiarity with internet addresses, the success in retrieving information, using the internet to observe movies and music and familiarity with internet resources.

The study was designed and administered to study the effectiveness of teaching communicative skills on improving the married women's qualities of life. The research method was semi-experimental which has pretest, posttest and witness group. The sample include 30 women who referred to Mehr Counseling Center in Qom and they were selected as a sample and completed (whoqol-brief) quality of life questionnaire (World Health Organization 2004) twice as a pretest and posttest. The witness group was taught communication skills in 8 sessions, for 2 months. The results of analyzing covariance showed increasing the average of scores of the quality of life in test group than the average in witness group. Studying the average of scores of the quality of life factors separately in test and witness group showed that mental health factors and environment had meaningful difference, while this difference was not seen in physical health factors and social relations.