Journal of Education Experiences
Volume:3 Issue: 1, Winter - Spring 2020

The purpose of this study was to Validation model for the development of primary school principals in Fars province. The statistical population included all principals of primary schools in Fars province. According to the Cochran formula, the sample size was 410 people who were selected using cluster random sampling. data was collected using a researcher-made questionnaire, To confirm the validity of the questionnaire, content and constructs validity were used. The reliability of the questionnaire using Cronbach's alpha (0.96) and combined reliability. The final questionnaire with a total of 56 items was distributed among the participants. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the conceptual model and data were analyzed using SPSS and PLS software. According to the goodness-of-fit indexes, the research model had a good fit to the data and its validity was confirmed in the statistical population Also, structural model analysis showed that the relationship between 23 variables was significant and the relationship between 7 variables was not significant.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the effectiveness of social skills training on aggression and the tendency to risky behaviors among high school girl students in Shiraz. The research method was experimental and pretest-posttest with control group kind. The statistical population of this study includes all high school girl students in Shiraz, who were studying in 2018, including 5782 students. A sample of 30 students was selected as sample size using a cluster sampling method. Three questionnaires used for data collection were Ahwaz aggression questioner (2001) and Iranian Adolescence Risk-taking Scale (IARS) Zademohammadi (2012). Data were analyzed with MANCOVA via SPSS software. The results of this study showed that there were significant differences between the two groups in the posttest of aggression and the tendency to risky behaviors and its subscales. (p < 0/05). Also, with respect to subscales, the findings showed there was a significant difference between the experimental group and the control group in the post-test with regards to aggression dimensions (anger and nervousness, hostility and malice) and dimensions of tendency to risky behaviors (tendency to drugs, tendency to abnormal behaviors and tendency to violence). Therefore, one can conclude that social skills training results in reduced aggression and its dimensions (anger and nervousness, hostility and malice) and tendency to risky behaviors and its dimensions (tendency to drugs, tendency to abnormal behaviors and tendency to violence) in female first-grade high school students in Shiraz.

The goal of the present research is to investigate about the effects of formative and summative feedback on the quality of performance of EFL learners in Iran. This study is applied and it deals with the administration of formative and summative feedback among 80 girl and boy students in an institute in Tabriz called Dehkade-e-Jahani during the school year 2018 and 2019 using a quasi-experimental method. Since we have used a pre-test and post-test method among two groups of girl students and boy students, to investigate about the results of the feedbacks created through formative and summative feedback methods, we have used an independent t-test and a double test method to analyze the amount of effectiveness of each of the feedback methods under investigations and also a one-way variance analysis has been administered using SPSS22 software. Results of this study showed that both formative and summative feedback have been effective in improving the performance quality of speaking among EFL students in Iran. The comparison of results of variance analysis also showed that the formative feedback in post-test has had a more considerable positive effect on improving the quality of the speaking performance of Iranian EFL students. Considering the results of the present research, it can be suggested that the formative and summative feedback methods can complement each other during English learning

The main purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of significant work on organizational commitment to the mediator role of job engagement among faculty members. The type of this research was applied based on purpose and descriptive-correlational in terms of implementation technique. The population in this research was all faculty members of Islamic Azad University of Fars Provice (1997 People). Using Cochran formula, 385 people were selected as the sample size. The stratified sampling method was based on the size of the population. The research data was collected by distributing questionnaires among samples. Descriptive and inferential statistics and SPSS and PLS software were used to analyze the data. The results of this study showed that significant work has a positive effect on organizational commitment and job engagement. In addition, considering the positive impact of significant work on organizational commitment in the presence of the mediator variable of job engagement, job engagement could play a role as a mediator variable in the relationship between significant work and organizational commitment.

This study explored the effectiveness of motivational interviewing on academic procrastination in adolescents. To this end, an experimental design including pretest-posttest with a control group was employed. The research population consisted of all male students (488 in total) studying in the secondary high school in the Educational District 2 of Shiraz in the academic year 2017-2018. Using a multi-stage cluster sampling method, 30 high school students were randomly assigned to two groups (experimental and control), each with 15 students. The instrument used in this study to collect the data was Procrastination Questionnaire. A comparison of the mean scores and standard deviation of the research variables in the pre-test and post-test for the two groups indicated that procrastination scores of the treatment group on the posttest decreased significantly. However, there was no significant difference in the procrastination scores of the control group on the pretest and posttest. The results of covariance analysis on the postoperative scores suggested a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of procrastination, thus the research hypothesis is confirmed. That is, the Individual Motivational Interviewing Therapy reduces students' procrastination. Therefore, it can be suggested motivational interviewing had a significant effect on procrastination (P <0.001). In addition, the result of ANOVA test on the procrastination scores in the follow-up stage showed that there was no significant difference between the treatment group students’ mean scores on the posttest and the follow-up test, which indicates the effectiveness of the motivational interviewing after two months.

Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the attention to environmental factors in Iranian elementary school social studies curriculum. In this study, a descriptive method was used to identify environmental components and a content analysis method was used to evaluate and analyze the curriculum of social studies in elementary school. The statistical population of the study was the content analysis of the social studies curriculum of the elementary school of Iran which from this population, the fifth- and sixth-grade elementary school social studies curriculum was selected by the purposeful method. The data collection tool was the Objective Analysis List, Textbook Content Analysis List, and Teacher's Guidebook Content Analysis List, which was developed after studying the theoretical foundations and legal bases, and then its validity was determined by science-education experts. The unit of analysis of the sentences contained in the textbooks is the texts of the goals and the textbook of the teacher. In the content analysis section, the most important findings show that in the social studies curriculum of Iranian elementary schools in the cognitive aspect, skillful dimension and attitude dimension towards environmental components 9.72%, 5.89%, and 4.01%, respectively which indicates the lack of attention to this important issue. Keywords:Environment,Curriculum,Environmental Curriculum,Primary school.

The present study has explored aspects and parameters of institutional research (IR) and social responsibility. It has offered a suitable model for university social responsibility through analysis of previous studies and comparative study of institutional research functions of sample universities. Document analysis has been used to collect data. Descriptive analytic and correlational-comparative methods have been used for data analysis. Aspects of social responsibility (educational, cognitive, economic, institutional, and social) and aspects of IR (communication, information authority, policy analysis, research and decision making, evaluation, responsibility) have been identified. Consequently, the study has proposed a conceptual model for the role of institutional research in facilitating social responsibility.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of virtual social networks on the educational performance of students. This research is a descriptive-survey method. The statistical population of this study was 90 students of Evaz Health School. Due to the limited statistical population and the opinion of the supervisor, a census method has been used to select the sample size. Data were gathered by using two standard questionnaires of Virtual Social Networks of Rasti (2015) and Pham and Taylor (1999). Content validity was used to obtain the desirable validity of the questionnaires. For the social networking questionnaire, the reliability coefficient was 0.819 for Cronbach's alpha and 0.740 for the educational performance questionnaire. For data analysis, descriptive statistics methods were used at the first level and inferential statistics methods (Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, linear regression analysis, independent t-test, one way analysis of variance and Friedman test) were used. After analyzing the data, it was revealed that virtual social networks have a significant effect on educational performance of students in Evaz Health School. Finally, based on the Friedman test, it was found that there is a significant difference between the average ranks of dimensions of virtual social networks. The lowest average rating from the dimensions of virtual social networks is related to "recreational use" and the highest average rating is related to "artistic use"