فصلنامه مطالعات تربیتی و روانشناسی
سال سوم شماره 2 (پیاپی 6، پاییز و زمستان 1380)

This stydy was aimed at construction and validation of a scale for measuring test anxiety among university undergraduate students. The scale construction sample consisted of 477 female and male students randomly selected from about 10000 undergraduate students studying at various departments of shahid chamran University (Ahvaz, Iran). A 22 - item scale, entitled' student's Test Anxiety Scale' (STAS) was constricted through faceor analysis of the data collected by administration of a preliminary 77 - item scale composed of items tapping a wide range of personality and behavioral features of test anxiety disorder. The reliabigity coefficients of STAS (Le.,test ¬retest and internal consistency indices) were found to be very satisfactory. Also, validity of STAS was assessed by its concurrent administration with several other persinality and clinical inventories measuring anxiety, depression and physical conplaints. According to these findings, STAS is a very reliable and valid scale for measuring rest anxiety aming undergrduate students.

In order to measure the impact of using metacognitive strategy on reading comperhension, three groups of students, each group 30, were randomly selected. One as experemental ant the other two as control groups. The data analysis showed that metacognitive strategy do positivity effect students reading comprehension.

Total Quality Management (TQM) is a control process that originaly has been explained by " Deming". Although some efforts has been made in appling TQM in education, it is not sufficiently focused on education, specialy teaching and learning process. Clearly the teachers most important customer is the students, but students not only consume the final product, but also participate in production. Therefore they are co-producer of learning process. Edgecombe-High School is an interesting example of applying TQM in education. Students, teachers and all of employees in this high- school continuely attempt to increase qualitative learning.

Religion has been the most important human needs in all over the world history. Nowaday this human need is felt more than the past. The religious potentailly can preserves and promotes the humanity of the human and save him from bad things. The homesickness feeling is the matter which the human has got it from the dominant ideology on the world which has seen most psychologicall abnormality. This article has reviewed this matter from the mental health angel.We belive the relaxation that all people need it can be found in religous world.

Cognitive therapy has been misconstrued in seveal domains. Seven critical areas are identified and relevant recent advances in cogitive therapy are discussed. these areas include: personality change, conceptualization,• childhood experiences, interpersonal factors. this review of the literature will clarify understanding of the cognitive therapy model

Constructivism is a theory of knowing and learning, rather than a theory of teaching. Constructivism is a popular position today not only in mathematics education, but also in developmental psychology, theories of family, psychology of gender and. .. This theory and its implication in teaching matematics is describe in this article. It is emphazied that the teacher is a facilitator of learning and proovides situations in which students can engage in collaborative mathematical problem solving in small groups and whole - class discussions of problems, interpratations and solutions.