فصلنامه رهبری و مدیریت آموزشی
سال هفتم شماره 1 (بهار 1392)

This study evaluates the use of mobile in classroom and its relationship with academic performance of high school students in Sanandaj. The population included 28,450 students in zones 1 and 2 of Sanandaj and 1,538 students were randomly selected as sample population. The results showed that students mostly used mobile to send SMS with such statements as jokes, romantic, meaningful, school homework, and news. Although many of the school students carry out mobiles with them to school, but most students take it off and put it in silent mode. The numbers of students, who use SMS in classroom, are less than the students who dont. Furthermore, the results show a negative relationship between mobile phone use in school and academic performance. The findings propose that Through creating Culture of using mobiles and informing parents and students of the effects of mobile phone on learning, mobile use may be limited in school.

Performance management is a major main issue in the organizational analysis and its improvement is necessary to the measurement and management. Hence, an organization is not conceivable without a performance management system. The purpose of this research was to understand the views of Ferdowsi University staff, both managers and employees about the performance management based on Baldrige's model. Research statistical population included all employed official and contract personnel working in different parts of Ferdowsi University In 1390. In this research, we used stratified random sampling method for selection of employees sample and Simple random sampling method for selection of manager’s sample. So after using Cochran's formula for determining sample size, 18 departments were identified and University and samples were selected based on the proportion of employees in each department. Data collection was made by a questionnaire with 35 items that was developed based on components of Baldrige's model and also were evaluated its Validity and reliability. Data were analyzed using Descriptive statistics, repeated measure, MANOVA, and Hoc tests. The most important results are: overall, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad has been found appropriate score from Baldrige's model, Namely What about 55 percent of the total score. Also there is no significant difference between the 6 components of performance management from the of manager's perspective and while there is significant difference between the 6 components of performance management from the of staff's perspective.

The main question of this research was determined how extent of entrepreneurship elements considers in content of textbooks of secondary education of Kar and Danesh. The research method was document review and content analysis. In this research we examined the component of entrepreneurship in the10 textbooks of Kar and Danesh contain 7general books and 3complete skill in Academic Year 1389-1390. In this research we used researcher maid content analysis of checklist as a research tool and it contains 17 components and 82 indicators. We used descriptive statistic for result analysis. The main finding of this research these are: After literature review of entrepreneurship we understood the component of entrepreneurship divided in to three domains contains its cognitive, emotional and skill. The result obtained indicate that the extent of consider the components of entrepreneurship in the textbooks was different. Among the textbook of complete skill the book of entrepreneurship has maximize consider the entrepreneurship and among the general book the book of health and security has a minimum consider the element of entrepreneurship.

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of staff training courses have been conducted. Four main variables for evaluating the effectiveness of training courses including training process, learner's quality, quality of teachers and teaching facilities. The research method is descriptive - correlation is. The population of Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company, which is number 289. Therefore, employees are given a set of simple random sampling is used, 172 patients were selected according to Morgan. The instrument used to measure effectiveness of training courses is a 42 item questionnaire. Validity content validity of the teacher's guide, counselor and academic experts confirmed Thursday. Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of the questionnaire by 0/94, respectively. For data analysis, one-sample t-test and Pearson's correlation coefficient was used. The results of t-test showed that the subscales of the (process of teaching, learner's quality, quality educational facilities and teachers) in satisfaction of staff training is desirable. Between all four components of a comprehensive and effective system of staff training and there is a significant positive relationship.

The purpose of this study was to find out relationship between organizational justice, Job satisfaction and organizational Commitment among the personnel of Islamic Azad University. The total population included all employed personnel in Islamic Azad University, Eghlid Branch, A sample of 40 personnel was selected randomly according to Krejsi and Morgan’s table. Three Questionnaires, organizational justice questionnaire (Moorman, 1991), organizational Commitment questionnaire (Allen &Meyer, 1990) and Job Satisfaction questionnaire (Zali, 2005) were used to collect data. Data were analyzed through Pearson correlation, multiple regressions and T one sample test. The results of statistical analyses showed that there were certain relation between organizational justice and Job satisfaction. There is certain relation between organizational justice dimension with Job Commitment, and from this dimension, only interaction justice was able to predict Job Commitment.

Empowerment is a concept that is applied to improvement of organization usage method of its own people. This is an idea that rooted in older theories and strategies of organization. Transformational leadership takes a significant and undeniable role to outbreak of empowerment. In fact, the transformational leadership is known as a method by which leaders encourage their employees for performing beyond expectations. The main purpose of present research was to investigate the relationship between transformational leadership and employee's psychological empowerment. Statistical population of present study included 67 employees of Education Department of Babolsar City and sample population included 56 employees, selected randomly. Deta was collected by researcher designed questionnaire. Results showed that there was a significant relationship between transformational leadership and it's components with employee's psychological empowerment. Among the components of transformational leadership, Individual Considerations was best predictor of psychological empowerment, but Intellectual Stimulation didnt have a significant influence on psychological empowerment. By consideration of results, we can say that the leaders have a significant role to employee's empowerment through creating an appropriate empowering environment and situations.

This research is conducted to investigate the effectiveness of Creativity Development Teaching Model (MDTM) on mathematics performance course of girl students. The research method was pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The population of study included all girl students at guidance schools in Mashhad city. A sample of 40 girl students were selected by random sampling among students of Shams Toos Mashad School and were divided in experimental group (20 students) and control group (20 students). First, teacher-made test of mathematical performance (type 1) as a pre-test was performed on all subjects, then the experimental group were run on the application of mathematical creativity program, while the control group did not receive any training. After training sessions, a teacher-made test of mathematical performance (parallel form of type 1) as the post-test was performed on all subjects. Data was analyzed by descriptive index and independent T test. Comparing of two groups showed that mathematics performance of experimental group increased higher than the control group at posttest (p<0/05).

The objective of this study was to find out the degree of knowledge of school principals about the components of sustainable development. The sample population consisted of 99 female and 109 male school principals selected by clustered random sampling. A researcher designed questionnaire was used to collect data with a reliability of 0.95 by using Cronbach's Alpha. Kolmogroff Smirnoff test, one-group t test, a multivariate analysis of variance test (ANOVA) and t-test of two independent groups were used for the analysis of data. The results show that manager's knowledge of the components of sustainable development is desirable. Managers are familiar with social, economic, institutional and environmental factors. The difference is not significant, but the service manager and master's degree holders in terms of familiarity with environmental component, differs with a significant difference (p≤ 0/01). Also, the degree of familiarity with the components of sustainable development is significantly different between genders.