Journal of Education Experiences
Volume:2 Issue: 1, Summer - Autumn 2019

The present research aims to inquire into fundamental development plan with respect to prerequisites of natural sciences in primary schools and it has been carried out in two phases. Qualitative- inductive analysis was used in the first phase and quantitative content analysis was employed in the second phase of this study. Given the importance of the subject and limitation of research population, sampling was not done for statistical population in fundamental development plan in the first phase and total statistical population was studied. The textbook of natural sciences and validity of this technique was confirmed by means of judgment of experts. The resultant data were analyzed using descriptive statistical indices and by means of Shannon’s entropy method. Among the studied dimensions in the second grade class, the highest rates of information weight and importance coefficient belong to item of placement of learner along with axis of learning activities i.e. 0.911 and 0.032. In third grade of primary school, variables of placement of learner on the axis of learning activities and familiarity and training thinking process skills, the importance coefficient rate and their information weight were ranked with 0.885, 0.829 and 0.029 and 0.029 respectively. The lowest information weight and importance coefficient belongs to paying attention to independent study, potential for working and use of digitalized sources and training CDs i.e. 0 (zero). Overall, paying attention to fundamental development plan in education is essentially important in production of content.

The purpose of this research is standardizing and estimating the assessment tool of Teachers Empowerment in Tabriz. This research has been conducted in descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional method. The statistical population includes all 2.747 secondary school teachers in Tabriz, who were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling method. The sample size was determined 340 people according to Morgan's table. The measurement tool in this research includes a standard questionnaire; Martin's Teachers Empowerment (2001) reliability was calculated by internal consistency method (Cronbach's Alpha) and test-retest and intra-class correlation coefficient. Then, formal content validity, construct validity, convergent and divergent validity were calculated. Data was analyzed by software SPSS 20 and Amos24. Results indicated thatover % 80 of the items had good translation quality. Translation utility of all items was obtained by translators’ suggestions.  Questionnaire of teacher’s empowerment had a good-looking validity. More than % 90 of the items strongly correlates with its own subscale. The infraclass correlation coefficients were > 0.70. Cronbach’s α coefficient was 0.99 for the overall scale and coefficient test - retest reliability range was 0.70 - 0.85. Content validity coefficient was 0.79. The results of exploratory factor analysis showed 6 factors including: Decision Making, Position, Professional Development, Authority and Impact.  Self- Efficacy explained %99 of the total variance. Confirmatory factor analysis represented the appropriate fitness of information with a 6-component structure (P < 0.05; df = 5;  X2 = 2.89; RMSEA= 0.06; CFI = 0.96).In conclusion, empowerment questionnaire has high quality and is acceptable. This questionnaire has formal validity, content validity, convergent and divergent validity, and reliability in the test of times (the relative and absolute) and internal consistency at an acceptable level in the target population. So, this questionnaire can be used in research as a tool to survey the Empowerment of teachers.

The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of using dictogloss technique on EFL's listening comprehension ability. This was an experimental research with non-randomized control group pretest- posttest design. Class A was the experimental research group, while class B is the control group. Each of them consisted of 25 students. A pre-test was administered to both groups at the beginning of the experiment to ensure that they had the same language background. During 15 sections of study, the Experimental group received treatment by dictogloss technique while the control group did not. At the end of the experiment, a post-test was assigned to both groups to determine whether the dictogloss technique had positively affected the students' listening comprehension abilities. The mean scores gained from both classes showed that the Experimental group had higher mean scores than the Control Group; this showed that the dictogloss technique had worked well.

The emphasis on self-esteem, responsiveness, and self-actualization of high school students in Religion and Life textbooks was examined. The study was carried out as a quantitative content analysis. Study population and sample group consisted of three Religion and Life textbooks and three teacher’s guidebooks. The whole contents of the books were surveyed using a researcher-designed checklist based on the theoretical background and literature review. Validity of the tool was confirmed by the university professors at the School of Educational Sciences. The base units of analysis were the sentences in the textbooks and the teacher’s guidebooks. The results revealed that emphasis on self-esteem, responsiveness, and self-actualization was at low level in terms of objectives. Moreover, the emphasis on self-esteem, responsiveness, and self-actualization was at very low level in terms of contents of the textbooks and teacher’s guidebooks. Therefore, revising the contents of the textbooks by the curriculum planners and authors is recommended.

The purpose of this research is investigating the relationship between research experience and researcher spirituality with research self-efficacy of M.A. students of Islamic Azad University of Sari. Its implementation method is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population in this research consists of 5112 MA students of Islamic Azad University of Sari in 2017-2018. Out of which, 361 students were randomly selected based on Krejcie and Morgan sampling table and applying stratified sampling method. For data collection, the library and the field method were used. The data collection tool in this research was three researcher-made questionnaire included research experience, research spirituality and research self-efficacy. The content validity of these questionnaires was approved by supervisors, advisors and experts in the field and their reliability was obtained by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, respectively (83%, 91% and 86%). To analyze the data two statistical methods included descriptive statistics (frequency, indicators mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics were used (Wilcoxon test non-parametric methods, spearman correlation test, strong regression and structural equation). For analysis, SPSS software and LISREL was used. Findings from the research suggest that the simultaneous relationship was established between the predictor variables and the criterion variable. And also the researcher spirituality had mediator role in relationship between research experiences with research self-efficacy. `

Any organization needs to innovate in order to survive in today's turbulent and changing world. Understanding the changes in the surrounding environment, looking for innovative and innovative responses, cannot be achieved unless it is institutionalized in the sponsoring culture of the organization. And the organization becomes a learning organization using the flow of knowledge. The present study aims to investigate the relationship between organizational culture, knowledge sharing, organizational learning and innovation. The research population consists of all knowledge workers in the Education Organization of Fars province, from which 190 people were selected as samples using the non-random targeted sampling method. The research data was collected by distributing questionnaires among samples. After collecting data, the distribution of the data related to the variables was examined using the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test; then, the Pearson’s correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling were used to test the research hypotheses. The results of this study show that there is a significant relationship between variables of organizational culture, knowledge sharing, organizational learning and organizational innovation. Also, the results of examining the components of organizational culture demonstrated that adhocracy and clan cultures have positive effects on other variables while hierarchy and market cultures negatively affect the dependent variables. As well as the role of mediator between organizational culture and organizational learning, knowledge sharing and organizational innovation proven. On the other hand, it was found that knowledge sharing can also play the role of mediator between organizational culture and innovation.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of storytelling on the self-efficacy of students. The research method was quasi-experimental along with pretest-posttest. The statistical population consisted of two elementary fourth grades with 21 students in each class. One of them was selected as the test group and the other as the control. Before the beginning of the course, a pretest was performed for all students (42 students). The self-efficacy questionnaire (SEQ-C) (Muris) was used for data collection and its validity and reliability were confirmed. Data were analyzed using SPSS software with covariance test after checking the homogeneity of variance and regression. The results showed that there is a significant difference between the control and experimental groups. This means that storytelling had a positive effect on the three dimensions (social, educational and emotional) of students’ self-efficacy.

The present study investigates the relationship between leadership style and job satisfaction among employees of the Department of Education in Bushehr Province. For this purpose, five sub-hypotheses and one main hypothesis were designed and the information needed to analyze the research hypotheses was designed via a questionnaire which was calculated 80 people in statistical sample based on Cochran's formula and selected by simple random sampling method, and questionnaires were distributed. All questionnaires were fully received. To test the hypotheses, Pearson correlation coefficient was used. Considering the analysis of the findings and testing the hypotheses one to five, there is a relationship between leadership style and job satisfaction of employees. The present study is correlational. Correlation research is divided into two general groups based on the objective of the research. The first category relates to research that aims to investigate bipartite correlations, which means that the researcher wants to examine the relationship between variables of job satisfaction and leadership style. The second category is a research that is carried out through regression analysis, covariance analysis, or correlation matrix. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between leadership style and job satisfaction among the employees of the Education Department of Bushehr Province and its role on their performance.