نشریه آموزش و پرورش متعالی
سال سوم شماره 2 (پیاپی 10، تابستان 1402)

Productivity is one of the indicators of managerial performance, and the purpose of this research was to provide a model of a productive organization with the approach of empowering employees in educational and research organizations (case study: education in Fars province).

This research is applied in terms of purpose and the data was collected in the field using a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative). The statistical population in the qualitative section contained 21 education experts of Fars province, who were selected purposefully, and in the quantitative section, there were managers, experts and teachers of education, who were first selected through stratified random method, then 384 non-randomly available people were selected as a sample. The research tool included a researcher-made questionnaire and a structured self-interaction form. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by 10 university professors and its reliability was confirmed through Cronbach's alpha test (α=0.86). An interpretative structural model was used to structure the components.

Based on the findings, 74 indicators in the form of 18 components have an effect on the productivity of education in Fars province, and the components were structured at six levels. The components of employee teaching and training, structural factors, employee empowerment and organizational knowledge management were placed at the sixth level (infrastructure level).

Providing the context and opportunity for the growth and prosperity of teachers, decentralization and organizational incentives will facilitate the empowerment of employees and Fars education will be moved towards a productive organization.

Faulty virtual education platforms and the use of educational networks such as the "Shad," along with some other factors, played an effective role in reducing the quality of education during the Corona pandemic. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to know the status and evaluate the performance of this system on the students of Qorve city in Kurdistan province.

The method of this research is qualitative. Semi-structured interviews with students and teachers who had more than two years of experience using this system were used to collect data. The interviews continued until theoretical saturation was reached, during which 8 teachers and 17 students were interviewed in the target city and villages. The validity of the research was obtained in consultation with the relevant experts and the reliability was obtained using the retest method.

The results of the interviews indicated 41 core categories under 11 key categories as follows: Weakness of the internet infrastructure and lack of smartphones, decrease in team work and social interactions, educational failure of students, change in educational-research attitude, decline of teachers' supervision and lack of accurate assessment of students, decrease in trust and social solidarity, causing physical, mental and behavioral injuries, increasing creativity and skill, lack of appropriate culture in the use of virtual space, strengthening self-reliance and increasing the sense of responsibility and complementary role like the Shad network.

Familiarity, awareness and of course enough virtual space interactions have become a vital issue especially for education in the contemporary globalized world. Such interactions will undoubtedly lead to the degradation of the quality of education and will result in training students who graduate degrees with high GPAs but without enough qualitative scientific content, if proper software and hardware platforms are not created and if the development of forecasts and background knowledge in this regard are ignored.

Variations in perceived teaching quality are associated with high levels of disorders and, consequently, with reduced classroom management by students. The main goal of this research is to investigate the effect of teachers' self-efficacy and enthusiasm on the changes in teaching quality perceived by students.

This research is of applied type, correlation based on structural equations.The statistical population includes teachers and students of junior high schools in Tunkabon city (297 teachers and 4001 students), among which 165 people were selected through simple random sampling method as the statistical sample of teachers and 355 people were selected as the statistical sample of students through cluster random sampling. The data collection tools were standard questionnaires of teachers' enthusiasm by Lazarides et al. (2019), teachers' self-efficacy by Pretorius et al. (2017) and change in teaching Aldrop et al. (2018). The validity of the research instrument was also confirmed by face validity, content validity and confirmatory factor analysis. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data using the structural equation method using SPSS26 and Smart Pls3 statistical software.

Teacher's self-efficacy and enthusiasm have a significant positive effect on all components of teaching quality (change in emotional support, change in classroom management, and change in educational clarity). The results indicated that self-efficacy with the path coefficient (0.629) and teacher enthusiasm with the path coefficient (0.256) have a significant positive effect on the change of students' perceived teaching quality.

Teacher's self-efficacy has the greatest effect on the change in students' perceived teaching quality and it should be taken seriously.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of cognitive and metacognitive strategies on self-concept and procrastination of first grade high school students in Shiraz city.

The research method was experimental with pre-test and post-test design for both experimental and control groups. The statistical population of the present study consisted of all female students of the first grade high school (ninth grade) of District 1 of Shiraz in the academic year 2021-2022, whose number is estimated to be about 1850 by referring to the Education Department of Shiraz city. Sixty students were selected through purposive sampling method. The instruments used in this study were Solomon and Roth Bloom and Chen and Thompson self-concept of academic procrastination questionnaires. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and technicians and the reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha method. Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (univariate and multivariate analysis of covariance) were used to analyze the data.

The results of the research indicated that the use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies explains 13.4% of the variance of self-concept and 21.9% of the variance of students' procrastination. Also, the use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies has a significant effect on the dimensions of self-concept (general, educational and non-academic) and dimensions of procrastination (preparing for exams, preparing homework and preparing for research).

The results indicated that the students who used cognitive and metacognitive strategies were better than other students in terms of self-concept and procrastination.

Augmented reality and virtual reality are considered smart and digital technologies that have left their impact in many industries and environments. On the other hand, the COVID-19 pandemic creates a series of issues and challenges for tourism education. Education through augmented reality and virtual reality has become very important. The tourism industry, as one of the most important service industries, experiences tight competition compared to other industries and services in the world.

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the factors affecting the acceptance and use of augmented reality and virtual reality applications in tourism education in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research method of this study is quantitative, and data analysis is done using structural equations. The statistical population of the research also includes education experts in the field of augmented reality. The basic idea of this research and its dimensions and spheres are taken from Barta's research model (2023), and changes and innovations have been made to the said model. The research tool is a researcher-made questionnaire with reliable sources. The final designed conceptual model was estimated using structural equations and Smart PLS software.

Based on the modeling results of structural equations, usefulness, ease, pleasure motivation, perceived value of price and perceived quality are effective on the attitude of using augmented reality and virtual reality applications in tourism education with values of 0.560, 0.485, 0.303, 0.677 and 0.444 respectively.

Therefore, the perceived value of price has a greater impact on the attitude and acceptance of the use of augmented reality and virtual reality applications in tourism education in the era of COVID-19 than other identified factors.

Education is one of the most important infrastructures for the all-round excellence of the country and the fundamental structure for the promotion of competent human capital in various fields. Therefore, the current research has been conducted with the aim of evaluating the performance of state and non-state Jihadi management in the implementation of the fundamental transformation document of the education system of West Azarbaijan province.

This research is a cross-sectional survey in terms of method and time frame of data collection. The statistical population of state and non-state education managers of West Azarbaijan province includes 4690 and 1217 people, respectively, and a random sample of 360 people was selected using the Cochran formula. A researcher-made questionnaire was used. Validity was assessed through confirmatory factor analysis and reliability was confirmed through Cronbach's alpha and using SPSS software.

The average optimal performance of state and non-state Jihadi management, respectively, is related to the variables of Islamic-Iranian growth and excellence; training amiable followers of a school of thought; promotion of social-family participation in the evolution of public formal education and training system; institutionalization of Islamic-Iranian management, promotion of educational-training justice; improvement of the efficiency of the public formal education and training system; achieving the first rank of education and training in the region, the Islamic world and the global level; the transformation of the educational, administrative and financial planning system.

All hypotheses were confirmed. The results indicate that the performance of state and non-state Jihadi management in the implementation of the fundamental transformation document of the education system is favorable.

The aim of the present research was to investigate the effect of mastery learning method on the academic performance and academic achievement motivation of the elementary school students.

The research method is quasi-experimental, with a pre-test, post-test design with an experimental and control group. The statistical population included all primary school students of Marvdasht city. To determine the sample size, 120 students were selected by cluster random method and replaced in two experimental (60 people) and control (60 people) groups. The measurement tools in this research were Hermans achievement motivation questionnaire and Pham and Taylor academic performance questionnaire, whose content and form validity have been confirmed and the reliability of the questionnaire of motivation for achievement and academic performance has been obtained using Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.85 and 0.79, respectively. Data analysis was done using descriptive and inferential statistics, which at the level of descriptive statistics; frequency, mean and standard deviation, and at the level of inferential statistics, analysis of covariance test were used.

There is a significant difference between the academic performance and academic achievement motivation of the two experimental and control groups in the post-test stage (p ≥ 0.001), in other words, the mastery learning method has a significant effect on the academic performance and academic achievement motivation of the students. Mastery learning method has had a significant effect on the components of academic performance. That is, 80% of the total variance or individual differences in the self-efficacy component, 38% in the emotional effects component, 73% in the planning component, 60% in the lack of control component and 67% in the motivation component is the difference between the two groups. The mastery learning method has had a significant effect on increasing the motivation of academic progress [F=25.896, p<0.001)].

The result indicated that the mastery learning method is effective in increasing academic performance and academic motivation. The mastery learning method is effective in the components of academic performance. The mastery learning method is effective in the motivational components of academic achievement.

The main purpose of this research was to test the explanation of political behavior with hypocritical behavior based on spirituality and strategic thinking among secondary school teachers in Mamsani city.

The research method was a correlational descriptive research in terms of nature and content. The statistical population of this research was all 284 secondary school teachers in Mamasani city. To determine the sample size, 165 people were selected from Morgan's table. The sampling method in this research was a simple random one. In this research, Danaei-fard & et al.'s Hypocritical Behavior Questionnaire (2013), Dobrin Political Behavior Questionnaire (1978), Hall Edwards Spirituality Questionnaire (1986) and Goldman Strategic Thinking Questionnaire (2005) were used to collect information. Pearson correlation test, regression analysis and path analysis were used to analyze the data. SPSS21 and PLS statistical softwares were used to perform these analyses.

The findings of this research indicated that there is a significant relationship between political behaviors and hypocritical behaviors through spirituality among secondary school teachers in Mamasani city. Also, there is a significant relationship between political behaviors and hypocritical behaviors through strategic thinking among secondary school teachers in Mamsani city. And finally, it was determined that the conceptual model of political behaviors with hypocritical behaviors through spirituality and strategic thinking among teachers of the second secondary level of Mamasani city has a good fit.

Therefore, considering the appropriateness of the current research model, it is appropriate to use this model for efficiency and effectiveness as much as possible in the target community, and those in charge should pay special attention to the research variables.