Azam Azizi; Farideh Hamidi; Maryam Meshkat
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Acculturation is the process of social, psychological and cultural changes that result from the interaction of two cultures and at the same time adapting to the culture that dominates the society. This research was conducted with the purpose of constructing, factoring and validating the acculturation ...
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Acculturation is the process of social, psychological and cultural changes that result from the interaction of two cultures and at the same time adapting to the culture that dominates the society. This research was conducted with the purpose of constructing, factoring and validating the acculturation questionnaire in bilingual female students in Urmia city. The statistical population included bilingual female students of the 10th and 11th grades in the academic year of 1400-1401 in Urmia city. 300 students were selected by three-stage cluster random method and answered the acculturation questionnaire. Reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient and validity was calculated using content validity and confirmatory factor analysis. According to the average extracted variance of AVE, 2 extracted factors could explain 51.66 percent of the variance of the acculturation questionnaire. The findings obtained from the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the x2/df index for the two-factor structure was equal to 1.94, and given that it was less than 5, it indicates the optimal fit of the model. And the second root of the mean square of the estimation error is equal to 0.05 and it is smaller than 0.08 and it indicates the good fit of the model. Reliability for the total acculturation score was0.89. Based on the results of the present research, a scale of acculturation with 15 items and two components of language and cultural identity was extracted, which can be appropriate to measure the level of acculturation of students.
Elham Rabbani parsa; JAVAD MESRABADI; peyman yarmohammadzade
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The present study intends to structuralist and standardize a critical thinking test. It is a descriptive survey in which the researcher has aimed to provide a valid and reliable test to assess and evaluate the students’ critical thinking. Target population of this study is consisting of all students ...
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The present study intends to structuralist and standardize a critical thinking test. It is a descriptive survey in which the researcher has aimed to provide a valid and reliable test to assess and evaluate the students’ critical thinking. Target population of this study is consisting of all students of Ferdowsi University during the academic year 2011-2012 that are totally 21217 students. Sampling population of the research includes 500 students. Two stages of sampling method have been applied in this study; the first stage has been a clustering sampling method and second one has been a random sampling method. Eight questions have been also discussed in this research and required data has been assembled through two questionnaires. Owing to the fact that the present study aims to plan a new questionnaire to assess the students’ critical thinking, two questionnaires have been applied. The first one was the questionnaire which has been used in California due to assess the validity of the researcher’s questionnaire, and second one was the researcher’s own questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics and softwer spss, Bilog have been applied to analyze the research questions. The achieved results indicate that all three kinds of validity are acceptable. Structural and differential validity demonstrate that this questionnaire has the capability of distinguishing between high and low groups of critical thinking on the basis of California’s test. The results of criterion validity show that the researcher’s questionnaire is valid enough and can be substituted for California’s questionnaire. Experimental validity of the test has been calculated 0.96 and internal consistency of the test has been measured based on Kuder-Richardson formula. What has been achieved through the Information function indicate that the designed test possesses goodness of Fit and it is appropriate for the students whose abilities are at the level of ±1.
Mojtaba Jahanifar; Ebrahim Khodaie; jalil Younesi; Amin Musavi
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In order to the better interpreting and comparing scores in test batteries the raw scores in each test are converted to a common scale that called scale score. There are different Linear and nonlinear methods to convert raw scores to scale scores. Conventional methods of non-linear converting raw scores ...
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In order to the better interpreting and comparing scores in test batteries the raw scores in each test are converted to a common scale that called scale score. There are different Linear and nonlinear methods to convert raw scores to scale scores. Conventional methods of non-linear converting raw scores to scale scores are normalization and Arcsine methods. In This study that aimed to compare the standard error of measurement in non-linear converting methods we used 10000 random simulated sample data and 10000 random real sample data from Iran university entrance exam applicants.in order to compare converting methods conditional standard error of measurement that called CSEM, frequency charts and statistical indexes like moments was used. The results showed that both methods have different features. Although scores in both methods have high reliability and accuracy but Arcsine method reducing score error undulation for different score levels, also the mean of standard error of measurement for Arcsine scale scores was less than normalized scale scores.
nour ali farokhi
Volume 1, Issue 2 , January 2011, , Pages 95-116
karim abdolmohamadi; Farhad Ghadiri Sourman Abadi; Asgar Alimohamadi; mostafa zareean
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Sluggish Cognitive Tempo is used to describe a particular type of attention deficit, concentration, and slowness in information processing. The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Scale (SCTS) of the parent form among Iranian children. The ...
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Sluggish Cognitive Tempo is used to describe a particular type of attention deficit, concentration, and slowness in information processing. The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Scale (SCTS) of the parent form among Iranian children. The present study is a descriptive study. A sample of 1700 people was selected from the provinces of Tehran, East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Fars and Khorasan using cluster sampling method. 122 subjects were excluded from statistical analysis due to incomplete answers to the questionnaires and thus the final sample was reduced to 1578 parents. The confirmatory factor analysis method and internal consistency were used to compute the Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Scale factorial validity and reliability, respectively. Also, in order to examine the construct validity of the Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Scale, we computed correlations between different dimensions of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Scale with Attention Deficit Subscale of Mental Health Assessment Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents. The results of statistical results showed that this scale has structural validity, criterion and convergence in Iranian society. The results indicate that the scale is three factors and also the validity of the scale using Cronbach's alpha method and retest test after Approved two weeks. According to the findings of the present study, the parent form of the Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Scale (SCTS) has a good validity and reliability and it can be used in research related to slow cognitive multiplication in Iranian society.
hadi jafari nejhad; fariborz dorr taaj
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Background: Students differ in terms of mental abilities, learning style and rate, fitness, intelligence and aptitude, personality, interest in and motivation for learning, and academic activities as a means of assessing their learning. Objective: The present paper aims to discover some of such differences. ...
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Background: Students differ in terms of mental abilities, learning style and rate, fitness, intelligence and aptitude, personality, interest in and motivation for learning, and academic activities as a means of assessing their learning. Objective: The present paper aims to discover some of such differences. This study seeks to investigate the relationship that exists between personality' and learning approaches in predicting students’ preferences based on six different methods of assessment. Method: The present research is based on a descriptive-survey method and is of a correlative type. Sample: Using cluster sampling method, 410 participants were selected. Instrument: The instruments used in this study included NEO Five-Factor Personality Inventory, study skills questionnaire, and assessment methods questionnaire. Results: Data analysis with a correlation coefficient showed that the five personality traits and two learning approaches had a relationship with assessment methods. Moreover, results of multiple regression were indicative of the fact that students with low openness personality trait preferred multiple choice method; whereas students with openness personality traits and deep approaches to learning, preferred descriptive examinations and practical projects. In addition, students with deep approaches to learning, conscientious personality traits and low neuroticism preferred oral tests. As for continuous measurement method, regressions lacked any significance. Students with deep learning approaches and low openness personality trait preferred team work assessment method. Discussion and Conclusion: Students who possess openness and conscientiousness traits and adopt deep learning approach mostly select descriptive examinations, oral tests, teamwork, and practical projects as the assessment method.
abbas abbaspoor; hamid rahimian; mohamad reza mehrgan; Hadi ahmad nia
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This paper aimed to explain relative efficiency of educational departments of Zanjan province using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique. The study used quantitative approach and a descriptive-cross sectional methodology by investigation in official documents. To determine the efficiency, ...
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This paper aimed to explain relative efficiency of educational departments of Zanjan province using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique. The study used quantitative approach and a descriptive-cross sectional methodology by investigation in official documents. To determine the efficiency, using a questionnaire, viewpoints of experts about input and output variables were gathered and then the appropriate ones were seleceted by Borda technique. By using Slack method, from 14 education offices, seven offices determined as efficient and the others as inefficient. To use the findings of the research in planning and benchmarking, optimum values of each education offices were presented to be used as quantitative objectives in goal setting and planning.
Abbas Abbaspour; hamid rahimian; mohamadreza mehregan; hadi ahmadnia
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Blankمطالعه حاضر به منظور تعیین کارآیی نسبی واحدهای اداری آموزش و پرورش استان زنجان با استفاده از تکنیک تحلیل پوششی دادهها(DEA) صورت پذیرفته است. این مطالعه از یک رویکرد ...
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Blankمطالعه حاضر به منظور تعیین کارآیی نسبی واحدهای اداری آموزش و پرورش استان زنجان با استفاده از تکنیک تحلیل پوششی دادهها(DEA) صورت پذیرفته است. این مطالعه از یک رویکرد کمّی بهره برده، به لحاظ روش، توصیفی-مقطعی بوده و برای پاسخگویی به سئوالهای پژوهش از ابزار بررسی اسناد و مدارک اداری استفاده شده است. برای تعیین کارآیی، ابتدا با استفاده از پرسشنامه، نظرات خبرگان در خصوص متغیرهای ورودی و خروجی دریافت شد و سپس با استفاده از روش Borda به تعیین و انتخاب این متغیرها اقدام شد. با استفاده از مدلCCR خروجی محور، از تعداد 14اداره آموزش و پرورش یک اداره کارآ و بقیه ناکارآ و با استفاده از مدل BCC خروجی محور، تعداد 3 اداره به عنوان کارآ معرفی شدند. به منظور استفاده از نتایج مطالعه در برنامه ریزی و بهینه کاوی، مقادیر بهینه هر متغیر به تفکیک ادارات آموزش و پرورش ارائه شد تا از این مقادیر برای هدفگذاری و برنامه ریزی استفاده شود. در پایان به وسیله مدل اندرسون-پترسون به رتبه بندی ادارات آموزش و پرورش از لحاظ میزان کارآیی مبادرت شد.finished
sahar rezaie; mahmoud goudarzi
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The purpose of this research was to construct and validate the family intelligence questionnaire. This research was practical and tool development type. The statistical population for the preparation of the tool includes parents and students of the fifth grade of elementary school in Kermanshah who were ...
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The purpose of this research was to construct and validate the family intelligence questionnaire. This research was practical and tool development type. The statistical population for the preparation of the tool includes parents and students of the fifth grade of elementary school in Kermanshah who were studying in 1400-1401 and their number was reported 1000 according to the report of the Education Organization, which was a targeted sampling with inclusion criteria. (Families that scored high in the research tool including Epstein Family Function and the age of entering the research is 12 to 65 years old) 40 people were selected until theoretical saturation and were subjected to in-depth interviews, and in the second part of the statistical population to evaluate the validity of the questionnaire, including professors of psychology and counseling 15 people were selected with the entry criteria of having a doctorate degree and having at least 5 years of family-related work experience up to theoretical saturation. To determine the face validity of the tool, it was first examined among 30 families of the community, then exploratory factor analysis, first and second order factor analysis was used to confirm the research data, and Cronbach's alpha was used to measure its reliability. The findings showed that in terms of the factor structure of the 30 items of the questionnaire, it can be reduced to the components of communication skills, common goals and strategies, cohesion, spirit of effort and foresight, ability to solve problems and desire for group knowledge, as well as the results of confirmatory factor analysis. It showed that the six-dimensional model of family intelligence has a good fit and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was reported as 0.972. The coefficients in all components are higher than 0.7, so it can be said that the questionnaire has good reliability.
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According to many experts, entrance examination is the most important test in Iran and demographic characteristics such as gender, region (socio-economic status) and province (language) can affect the performance of participants’ responses to the test items. Controlling for the ability of examinees, ...
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According to many experts, entrance examination is the most important test in Iran and demographic characteristics such as gender, region (socio-economic status) and province (language) can affect the performance of participants’ responses to the test items. Controlling for the ability of examinees, if the answers to the test items are the function of demographic characteristics, the test items have Differential Item Functioning (DIF) toward them. The purpose of this investigation is to study Differential Item Functioning of the test items of Entrance Examinations of National Organization of Educational Testing across the demographic characteristics. The research sample consisted of all examinees of a test booklet which included some special exams of the experimental groups of Konkur from 2008 to 2011. Binary logisitic regression was used in order to analyzing DIF. After assuring unidimensionality through NOHARM approach, DIF analysis results indicated that the most number of detected DIF items were related to gender, region (socio-economic status) and province (language) variables respectively, but effect sizes were very small and negligible. Nevertheless, based on current research results, it is recommended that subject matter committees are formed to detect biased items based on final decisions of the committees and will be considered in designing test items in future.
Jalil Younesi
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هدف پژوهش حاضر ، سنجش روایی و پایایی مقیاس رضایت از کیفیت خدمات سفرهای هوایی در کل کشور بود. جامعه آماری پژوهش، کلیه مسافران خطوط هوایی داخلی در کل کشور بودند. با استفاده ...
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هدف پژوهش حاضر ، سنجش روایی و پایایی مقیاس رضایت از کیفیت خدمات سفرهای هوایی در کل کشور بود. جامعه آماری پژوهش، کلیه مسافران خطوط هوایی داخلی در کل کشور بودند. با استفاده از روش نمونهگیری خوشهای چندمرحلهای از میان فرودگاههای کشور، چهار فرودگاه (مهرآباد تهران، اصفهان، شیراز و مشهد) به شیوۀ هدفمند و 20 زوج شهر بر اساس میزان تعدد پروازها و حجم مسافر جابجا شده انتخاب شد. اجرای مقدماتی و نهایی در بازه زمانی تابستان و اوایل پاییز سال 1389 بوده و تعداد 2194 پرسشنامه معتبر تکمیل شده است. پرسشنامه اولیه (60 سؤالی) بر اساس 5 عامل مدل سروکوال (عوامل فیزیکی، پاسخگو بودن، همدلی، اطمینان خاطر و قابلیت اعتماد) تدوین شد؛ پس از اجرای مقدماتی و با استفاده از نرمافزارهای تحلیل سؤال (Multilog و Statistica) در رویکرد IRT و نتایج تحلیل عاملی تأییدی مرتبه اول و دوم، دادهها تحلیل و ابزار اندازهگیری رضایت از کیفیت خدمات سفرهای هوایی رواسازی شد.
mahtab pooatashi; asghar zamani
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The purpose of this research is to investigate the validity and reliability of thinking style scale amongst agricultural students. A sample of 247 students from Agricultural Colleges of Universities of Tehran, Yasoohj, Ilam, Shahid Bahonar Kerman, and Razi Kermanshah was randomly selected and answered ...
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The purpose of this research is to investigate the validity and reliability of thinking style scale amongst agricultural students. A sample of 247 students from Agricultural Colleges of Universities of Tehran, Yasoohj, Ilam, Shahid Bahonar Kerman, and Razi Kermanshah was randomly selected and answered to the scale items. SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) and AMOS Graphic software were used to analyze the data. Test-retest reliability and internal consistency showed appropriate reliability of thinking style subscales. Since the reliability of Anarchic style was issuable, with omitting one item the reliability reached .74 and acceptable level. Validity of scale confirmed with face and content validity and construct validity confirmed by Confirmatory factor analysis. About the "Form" dimension, the model assessed twice, with 4 items for Anarchic and 5 items for the same style. The results showed satisfactory fit of the model. According to the findings, thinking style scale is valid and reliable for assessing thinking styles of agricultural students.
arman azizi; maryam fatehizade; ahmad ahmadi; rezvan jazayeri; omid isanejad
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Abstract: Families with children with ADHD have specific problems and injuries that include all three couple, parent and sibling sub system. The purpose of this study was to construct and investigate the characteristics of damages of ADHD-based families’ questionnaire. For this purpose, using deep ...
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Abstract: Families with children with ADHD have specific problems and injuries that include all three couple, parent and sibling sub system. The purpose of this study was to construct and investigate the characteristics of damages of ADHD-based families’ questionnaire. For this purpose, using deep interviews with the phenomenological method with 16 families (27 people) and Studying the resources in the research background, the categories and damage of the three subsystems were identified and a questionnaire was developed based on them. Then among the families with a child with an ADHD disorder, 217 person were selected purposefully and questionnaire that was made was implemented on them. Cronbach's alpha method was used to determine the reliability and the marital conflict and quality of life questionnaire were used to determine the validity. Exploratory Factor Analysis was used. The results of the analysis showed that the Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the whole test was equal to 0/87, its coefficient of convergence with marital conflict questionnaire was 0/72 and the divergent credit coefficient with quality of life questionnaire was - 0/86. Result show that the researcher-made questionnaire has acceptable reliability and credibility with 11 factors and has the ability to identify the damages of subsystem of ADHD-centered family in clinical trials and family therapy. The value of this research is to design a native Iranian questionnaire to diagnose damages of ADHD families and apply appropriate treatment to these damages.
avideh najibzadeh; Hossein Eskandari
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The script writer and narrator metaphor for individuals is a key concept in narrative psychology; this is so important that narrative identity is a fundamental concept in the domain of narrative and identity. Narrative theory and approach has found its way through various aspects of psychology and a ...
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The script writer and narrator metaphor for individuals is a key concept in narrative psychology; this is so important that narrative identity is a fundamental concept in the domain of narrative and identity. Narrative theory and approach has found its way through various aspects of psychology and a plethora of research has been conducted in this regard. This paper aims to introduce different qualitative and quantitative methods in analyzing narrative data in addition to review stages of quantitative analysis and establishing reliability in narrative research. To reach this goal, first we review general necessary concepts of narrative; then we discuss methodology of narrative research in detail. In doing so, we differentiate qualitative versus quantitative analysis methods and highlight different quantitative analysis approaches for coding narrative data. Establishing reliability is a foundational process in quantitative data analysis hence we discuss steps of this process and introduce statistical coefficients of interrater reliability and their especial applications.
Fatemeh Imamgholivand; Parvin Kadivar; hassan pasha Sharifi
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Abstract The present study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the psychometric indices of school climate and identity (SCASIM-St). The sample size of this research was 503 high school female students who were selected by random sampling method from high schools. The results of exploratory factor ...
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Abstract The present study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the psychometric indices of school climate and identity (SCASIM-St). The sample size of this research was 503 high school female students who were selected by random sampling method from high schools. The results of exploratory factor analysis by main components method, in addition to the overall school climate, have four factors (the relationship of students with each other, the relationship of students with employees, the emphasis of the school, the values and the collaborative approach of staff and students) and the identity of the school For Joe and School Identity Questionnaire. To verify the reliability of the questionnaire, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient and the method of re-examination were used and a confirmatory factor analysis was used to determine its validity. The results showed that the questionnaire had an acceptable internal consistency and the Cronbach's alpha coefficients in its sub-scales ranged from 0.78 to 0.92. The validity of the questionnaire was statistically significant (P <0.001) at the level of 0.73. Confirmatory factor analysis was also used to determine the validity of the barley measurement and school identity. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the convergent validity (AVE) value was 0.44 and the general fit method (GOF) was 0.50. . This result confirms that the structure of the questionnaire has acceptable acceptance with the data and confirms all the good indicators of fitting the model. Factor analysis findings were almost similar to those of the original culture, and the reliability and validity coefficients were close to the results of previous research; therefore, considering the desirable psychometric properties of this questionnaire, this tool was a suitable tool for determining the atmosphere and identity of the school from the viewpoint of high school students is.
mirza hasan hoseyni; romina farhadi nahad
Volume 2, Issue 8 , July 2012, , Pages 109-132
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A positive brand image could greatly influence the decision to attend a university and is, thus, given more significance by the universities around the word. However, there is no unanimity among the researchers regarding the measurement and classification of university image. Therefore, the university ...
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A positive brand image could greatly influence the decision to attend a university and is, thus, given more significance by the universities around the word. However, there is no unanimity among the researchers regarding the measurement and classification of university image. Therefore, the university brand image is suggested to be studied as a research problem in the related context. The purpose of this study is to identify the appropriate scales to measure the brand image of Payame Noor University. The free- association method was, thus, adopted to extract the brand image of the university from the students' self-explicated perceptions. The analysis of the results led to the identification of 13 attributes of Payame Noor University brand image. The identified scales would provide the university officials with the opportunity to compare the brand image of their respective university with that of other universities and identify their strengths and weaknesses in order to develop a competitive strategy.
abolghasem yaghoobi; mahya hosseini; fereshteh motaharifar
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Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of sex education on psychological variablesThis research was carried out to investigate Quantitative results of experimental studies conducted on the effect of sex education on parents and children using meta-analysis method between 1394-1400 in Iran. The statistical ...
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Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of sex education on psychological variablesThis research was carried out to investigate Quantitative results of experimental studies conducted on the effect of sex education on parents and children using meta-analysis method between 1394-1400 in Iran. The statistical population is all studies related to sexual education that have been published in scientific research journals, Among them, 10 studies that were methodologically acceptable were selected and meta-analyzed. The research tool was a meta-analysis checklist and Cohen's effect size method was used to obtain the overall relation value. Data analysis was performed with version 2 of CMA software. The results showed that the average size of the effects is 1.17 which is a high effect size. It is included that sex education has had a significant effect on the psychological variables used in the studies. However, new research in this area seems necessary.Keywords: Meta-analysis، sex education، psychological variables
M Saffarinia; M Tadris Tabrizi; M Aliakbari
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objective: The aim of this study was studying exploring the validity, relibility of Keyes` Social Well-being Questionnaire among women and men in Tehran. Method: This research was kind of survey. Statistical population of this research was included women and men in Tehran City that 500 women and men ...
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objective: The aim of this study was studying exploring the validity, relibility of Keyes` Social Well-being Questionnaire among women and men in Tehran. Method: This research was kind of survey. Statistical population of this research was included women and men in Tehran City that 500 women and men randomly selected by multi-phases clustering sampling from statistical population. Research tool was Keyes` Social Well-being Questionnaire (1998). For studying the scale`s reliability was used of test-retest method and for studyind valilidity used of exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. Results: Pearson correlation coefficient between two times implementations showed that this questionnaire has high reliability and confirmatory factor analysis showed that model has moderate fitness in determining factors in the primary form expressed by Keyes (1998). Also , results of the means indicated that social contribution mean in wemon, men and whole participants was more than other factors. Conclusion:According to the research results, the questionnaire is valid and reliable tool and has good fitness for Iranian population.
kazem rasoolzade tabatabaie; Mohammad Ali Besharat; Ali asgari
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Objective: the aim of the present research was to determine the reliability and validity of the Persian version of Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI). Method: In this descriptive study, 682 students (292 female, 390 male) were selected through the multistage cluster sampling method from different ...
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Objective: the aim of the present research was to determine the reliability and validity of the Persian version of Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI). Method: In this descriptive study, 682 students (292 female, 390 male) were selected through the multistage cluster sampling method from different universities in Tehran and Pathological Narcissism Inventory was administered to them. Cronbach’s alpha, test-retest reliability, and confirmatory factor analysis were used to determine reliability and validity of Pathological Narcissism Inventory. Results: The test-retest correlation coefficient for the total scale was 0.90. The cronbach's alpha of the total scale was 0.95 and ranged from 0.78 to 0.92 for its components. Results of first-order confirmatory factor analysis indicated that seven component of PNI load on one factor and seven-factor model fit in Iranian sample. Also, Results of two-order confirmatory factor analysis showed that seven components of PNI load on narcissistic grandiosity and narcissistic vulnerability factors and two-factor model has an acceptable fitness. Conclusion: The obtained results, replicated findings of previous researches and supported the seven first-order factors and two second- order factors of PNI structure. Considering results of this study, the Persian version of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory possess suitable reliability and validity in order to assess the pathological narcissism in Iranian sample.
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Purpose: The present research is conducted aiming at studying the psychometric characteristics of sense of belonging to school questionnaire by Bree, Bethy, and Wath (2005) among Persian students.Method: The method applied in this research is descriptive-measuring and the population under study includes ...
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Purpose: The present research is conducted aiming at studying the psychometric characteristics of sense of belonging to school questionnaire by Bree, Bethy, and Wath (2005) among Persian students.Method: The method applied in this research is descriptive-measuring and the population under study includes all male and female secondary students. The sample under study included 350 students (200 boys and 150 girls) which were selected through cluster random sampling. Data for this research was collected through different questionnaires that included school connection feeling, academic burnout, and achievement motivation. All Data were analyzed utilizing Cronbach's alpha, Exploratory factor analysis, and correlation coefficient.Findings: The total Cronbach's alpha scale is calculated 88% that indicates optimal reliability. The correlation of this scale is calculated with academic burnout questionnaire in order to determine divergent validity (-0/567) that also indicated meaningful and negative correlation. Additionally, the sense of belonging to school, and achievement motivation scale is 44% that corroborates concurrent validity of sense belonging to school connection scale. The results of exploratory factor analysis expressed six factors that included: teacher’s support, engagement in the broader community, the sense of observing fairness and respect, positive feelings to school, relationship with school, academic engagment. Conclusion: measuring the sense of belonging to school scale can be applied as reliable and valid tool in educational and research situations.
akbar momeni rad; khadijeh ali abadi
Volume 2, Issue 7 , April 2012, , Pages 121-138
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Background: By the increasing growth of e-learning courses, the organizations and e-learners are concerned with the quality of aforementioned courses. They are, therefore, seeking to evaluate the different aspects of their courses based on the electronic learning standards. Objectives:The purpose of ...
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Background: By the increasing growth of e-learning courses, the organizations and e-learners are concerned with the quality of aforementioned courses. They are, therefore, seeking to evaluate the different aspects of their courses based on the electronic learning standards. Objectives:The purpose of this research was to investigate the quality of elearning courses based on e-learning standards in the field of information technology engineering in KhajehNasir al-Din Toosi University of Technology. Methods: Accordingly interaction, instructional design, feedback, content, accessibility and multimedia learning management system were analyzed. The validity of this list was confirmed by the evaluation of the field experts and its reliability,based on Cronbach's alpha, was 0/87. Results: The results showed that the quality of e-learning courses based on e-learning standards in the field of IT in KhajehNasir al-Din Toosi University of Technology is relatively acceptable and the results of T-test were significant. Conclusion: The outcome of this investigation provides useful data for the design and the production of the content, instructional and learning strategies and the decision-making of the organizations and learners.
mohammad ahmadi deh qutbuddini; ebrahim khodai; Valiollah Farzad; ali moghadam zadeh; masoud kabiri
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The present study has been done with the purpose of investigating the dimensionality and differential item functioning of the testlet-based test of Iran's PIRLS 2011. In order to analyze the dimensionality, graded response and bi-factor item-response theory models were used with full-information maximum ...
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The present study has been done with the purpose of investigating the dimensionality and differential item functioning of the testlet-based test of Iran's PIRLS 2011. In order to analyze the dimensionality, graded response and bi-factor item-response theory models were used with full-information maximum likelihood estimation method and to analyze the differential item functioning multiple-group bi-factor model of Cai et al (2011) was applied. The results of the dimensionality investigation showed that the bi-factor model is better fitted to the data than the graded response model both in Iran's total sample and in boy and girl groups. The results of testlets effect variance showed that effects of second factors on Iranian students' performance in two testlet related to literal comprehension, has caused dimensionality in Iran's PIRLS testlets. The results showed that there was no significant difference in average students' performance of the boy and girl in general latent trait of reading comprehension, but the difference between the average reading proficiency of the boy and the girl in three literal and three informational testlet in favor of girls was significant. The result of differential items functioning based on the bifactor model showed that many items have an uniform and non-uniform differential item functioning, and boys in multiple-choice items and girls in constructed response items have better performances. In general, the results showed that in Iran's PIRLS 2011 testlets, the traits related to the two literal comprehension testlets were differently perceived between boy and girl students, and these two testlet had more local item dependence among girls than boys. Also, the results indicated a difference between the performance of Iranian boy and girl students in the mixed items format test of PIRLS.
elahe Drogar; Ali Fathi Ashtiyani
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metacognition related to online gaming. The purpose of this study is to determine the psychometric properties of the online meta-cognition scale (MOG). 251 students of Islamic Azad University of Mashhad, selected by multistage cluster sampling, were included in the Internet addiction inventory and the ...
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metacognition related to online gaming. The purpose of this study is to determine the psychometric properties of the online meta-cognition scale (MOG). 251 students of Islamic Azad University of Mashhad, selected by multistage cluster sampling, were included in the Internet addiction inventory and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to verify the validity of this scale. Confirmatory factor analysis and hierarchical regression were used to determine its validity. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the existence of three main factors, including meta-cognition about the uncontrollability of online games, the negative metacognition of online gambling threats and the positive meta-cognition of the usefulness of online games. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for positive metacognition. 0.89 and for negative metacognition about the uncontrollability of the online game 0.84 and for the meta-cognitive negativity related to the dangers of online games 0.77 and for the whole test was 0.85. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the three-factor model for this questionnaire has an acceptable fit. Also, hierarchical regression analysis showed that the online gaming scale had an acceptable predictive validity to predict Internet addiction scores. Regarding the validity and reliability of this study, online gaming scales are a tool that can be used to measure the online metacognitive skills used by researchers, researchers and practitioners of education and research.
ali mohammad rezaee; ali delavar; hassan ahadi; fariborz dortaj
Volume 1, Issue 1 , October 2010, , Pages 1-25
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The present research aims to construct Iran Students' Evaluation of Educational Quality of faculty and has been administered to measure it’s validity and reliability. 962 students were chosen from Tehran governmental universities in different humanities course of studies to complete the questionnaire. ...
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The present research aims to construct Iran Students' Evaluation of Educational Quality of faculty and has been administered to measure it’s validity and reliability. 962 students were chosen from Tehran governmental universities in different humanities course of studies to complete the questionnaire. The factor analysis was used to study the questionnaire validity and accordingly ten factors were extracted. Regarding the research theoretical basis and the questions contents the fallowing factors has been distinguished: Scientific ability, interest and dynamic, motivation reinforcement and the students abilities, student and faculty human interaction quality in classroom, student and faculty human interaction quality out of classroom, evaluation and feedback, organization, ethical issues observance, educational regulation and order observance and satisfaction from faculty. The questionnaire reliability was assessed by internal consistency using Cronbach coefficient. Based on the obtained results, the coefficient of the ten factors (except to ethical issues observance which is %61) were satisfactory.The smallest Cronbach coefficient after ethical issues observance belongs to educational regulation and order observance which is %69 with three questions and the biggest Cronbach coefficient belongs to scientific ability which is %91 with 18 questions. The questionnaire total reliability coefficient is %97 which is outstanding. Based on the results of this research, the Iran Students' Evaluation of Educational Quality is qualified to be used for evaluation of faculty educational quality by students
Firouzeh Sepehrian
Volume 1, Issue 3 , April 2011, , Pages 1-15
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he purpose of this study was to prepare a primary scale which can be used in further extensive studies for preparing normative scale to assess enneagram personality types of Iranian university students in relation to native culture. To achieve this aim, at first, all subjects participated in enneagram ...
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he purpose of this study was to prepare a primary scale which can be used in further extensive studies for preparing normative scale to assess enneagram personality types of Iranian university students in relation to native culture. To achieve this aim, at first, all subjects participated in enneagram training class for ten sessions and we deeply surveyed the Riso- Hudson enneagram. Then, questions based on native culture and enneagram theory were developed. This scale was administered to 20 university students. The results of this pilot study demonstrated that certain questions need be changed and some should be deleted. This scale and RHETI test were simultaneously administered to 110 university students. The subjects were randomly selected from Oromiyeh University. The data were analyzed using mean, standarddeviation, Cronbach, s alpha, KMO, Bartlett, Confirmatory analysis, principal component analysis with Varimax rotation and Pearson correlation. The findings proved that this scale can have some useful applications.
