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hossien najafi
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The present study aimed to investigat the relationship between blended learning and feeling of rejection with academic performance in Payam Noor University students with the mediating role of academic enthusiasm. The research was done descriptively and survey. The statistical population was 743 students ...
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The present study aimed to investigat the relationship between blended learning and feeling of rejection with academic performance in Payam Noor University students with the mediating role of academic enthusiasm. The research was done descriptively and survey. The statistical population was 743 students of Khalkhal Payam Noor University that 248 people were selected as a sample using available sampling method and with the help of Morgan's table. To collect the data, Amand et al’s blended education made-researcher and feeling of rejection (2020) and Wang et al’s academic enthusiasm (2011) questionnaires, and the students’ grades at the end of the academic semester were used. Correlation coefficient was used to explain the relationships between variables and structural equations were used for modeling. Initial finding showed the correlation coefficient between belended education and academic enthusiasm with academic performance (0.369. and 0.386) with a positive relationship, but between belended education and feeling of rejection with academic performance (-0.212) with a negative relationship. The findings of the structural analysis also showed the positive effect of belended education with the mediating role of academic enthusiasm on academic performance (β= 0.37), but the negative effect of the feeling of rejection with the mediating role of academic enthusiasm on academic performance (β= -0.28). The final result was that blended education along with academic enthusiasm as a mediating factor reduced the negative effects of feeling of rejiection on students’academic performance.
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Mahbube Khosravi; hossein hajati
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This research aimed to evaluate the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the teaching and learning process of smart elementary schools in Ardel city. The method was a mixed explanatory type. In the quantitative section, due to the small size of the sample, all teachers (80 people) ...
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This research aimed to evaluate the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the teaching and learning process of smart elementary schools in Ardel city. The method was a mixed explanatory type. In the quantitative section, due to the small size of the sample, all teachers (80 people) were selected by census method. Quantitative data were collected by using a researcher-made questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a number of educational science professors and experts, and its reliability was calculated by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, 0.94. In the qualitative part, 15 teachers and 15 administrators were interviewed. A sample T-Tech test was used to analyze quantitative data and qualitative content analysis method was used to analyze the qualitative data. The results showed that using ICT in five components: 1. Theachers’ improving the expertise, technological skills and computer literacy and their use of electronic content in teaching, 2. Using ICT to continue the teaching-learning process, 3. Teachers’ specialized knowledge and awareness in appropriate application of new teaching techniques, 4. Designing electronic content in teaching by teachers, 5. The role of students in producing electronic content in teaching and encouraging them to use ICT to expand knowledge and deepen learning by teachers were lower than desired. By analyzing qualitative data, important obstacles such as: teachers' lack of knowledge of new teaching methods; teachers' lack of satisfaction with the use of ICT and lack of mastery of ICDL skills; teachers’, students’and parents’ lack of awareness in use of educational software; teachers’ motivational weakness in the application of ICT in teaching; all students’lack of access to class laptops; lack of experts in ICT utilization; the traditionality of the school structure; lack of culture of using networks and teachers’, parents’ and students’ low scientific- ultural level; teachers’, parents’ and students’ negative view and attitude; challenges related to infrastructure, facilities and economic resources; as well as the absence of a predetermined program and curriculum challenges were identified as using ICT challenges in smart schools.
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Hakim Bekrizadeh; Maryam Panahi; Behzad Jamalvandi
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This article aimed to investigat the role of digital literacy on the technology acceptance among the librarians of Payam Noor University. The research method is a description of the type of correlation. The statistical population included 318 employees of Payam Noor University libraries that 175 people ...
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This article aimed to investigat the role of digital literacy on the technology acceptance among the librarians of Payam Noor University. The research method is a description of the type of correlation. The statistical population included 318 employees of Payam Noor University libraries that 175 people were selected using Karjesi and Morgan’s taxle (1970) by simple random sampling method. The data collection tool was Rodriguez et al.’s (2016) standard digital literacy and Davis’s (2000) technology acceptance questionnaires. Descriptive findings showed that the amount of digital literacy and technology acceptance and their components are at a higher than average level. The results of the Pearson correlation coefficient test also showed that at a significance level of 0.05, there is a significant and direct relationship between digital literacy and its components and the technology acceptance among the librarians and based on the results of the regression model, the technology acceptance among the librarians can be predicted based on digital literacy by 39.2%. Also according to the results of the multiple regression model, the technology acceptance among the librarians can be predicted by 53.2% based on the components of digital literacy. Therefore, in explaining the desired performance of librarians, the necessity of accepting technology and promoting digital literacy among employees is suggested.
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fatemeh khalili fakhrabadi; mohammad ahmadi deh ghotbaddini
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This research aimed to investigate the application of the task-technology fit model and the technology acceptance model to evaluate the teachers' quality of teaching in the educational environment using the correlation method. The statistical population was 410 secondary school teachers of Rafsanjan ...
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This research aimed to investigate the application of the task-technology fit model and the technology acceptance model to evaluate the teachers' quality of teaching in the educational environment using the correlation method. The statistical population was 410 secondary school teachers of Rafsanjan city that 200 people were selected based on Morgan & Krejci sampling table using available sampling method and they responded Gardner and Amoroso’s (2004), Klopping and McKinney’s (2004), Bas et al’s (2016) questionnaire for technology acceptance model constructs; Jatileni & Jatileni teachers’ quality of teaching (2018) and Ajayi’s technology-task fit (2014) questionnaires. Data were analyzed by path analysis method. The results showed direct effect of task-technology fit on teachers' quality of teaching with technology, ease, usefulness, attitude, and behavioral intention was positive and significant, But This effect on the actual use of technology in teaching was not significant. Also the direct effect of the attitude towards the use of technology on the teachers’ quality of teaching with technology was positive and significant, but the effect of perceived ease and usefulness, behavioral intention and actual use of technology on the quality of teaching with technology was not significant. The results of the indirect effects of task-technology fit on the quality of teaching with technology through the mediation of technology acceptance in teachers' teaching showed that all paths of the chains that lead to the quality of teaching with technology through the constructs of technology acceptance are not significant. Therefore, it can be said that task-technology fit and technology acceptance among teachers in the studied sample could not predict the quality of teaching with technology.
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akbar rezaeifar; raziye hossini; bahere khirkhah
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The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between clinical disorders and parenting styles with addiction to computer games in first secondary school students in Niriz city. The research was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive of the correlational type based on the method of data ...
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The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between clinical disorders and parenting styles with addiction to computer games in first secondary school students in Niriz city. The research was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive of the correlational type based on the method of data collection. The statistical population included the students of the first secondary school students in Niriz (990 people) in the year 1402-1403, and 100 people were selected as a sample using the staged cluster sampling method. To collect data, SCL-90-R test, Diana Bamrind's Parenting Styles Questionnaire (1971) and Anturan's (2008) Computer Game Addiction Questionnaire were used. Descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and step-by-step regression analysis were used to analyze the data. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between clinical disorders and students' addiction to computer games. There is a negative and significant relationship between the assertive parenting styles and the dependence of students on computer games and there is a positive and significant relationship between the authoritarian and permissive parenting styles and the dependence of students on computer games. Also, physical complaint, anxiety, neuroticism and agreeableness were the strongest variables for predicting students' addiction to computer games.
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Mohammadreza Shakiba; RezaAli Nowrozi; Jaber Eftekhari
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The purpose of this research is to investigate and explain media factors affecting the occurrence of online cheating in Iran. This research is of a qualitative type that has used the analytical descriptive method. Therefore, the key concepts including disloyality, internet disloyality, and media were ...
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The purpose of this research is to investigate and explain media factors affecting the occurrence of online cheating in Iran. This research is of a qualitative type that has used the analytical descriptive method. Therefore, the key concepts including disloyality, internet disloyality, and media were defined according to the background of past researches that were more related to the subject, and then eight factors were identified as media factors that had more influence than others and they were explained and described. The media factors affecting virtual cheating are limited to two main factors that each of these is converted into four sub-factors: 1- media underlying factors that include addiction, lack of real identity authentication, easy access and low cost, and 2 - Debilitating factors of the media, which include promoting atheism, changing lifestyles, destroying privacy and globalization. The results indicated that the media and virtual networks gradually shake the adherence of their users and audiences to the values and norms accepted in the culture and as a result the security of the family's heart. Also that social media which promotes globalization hurts the family’s lifestyle and the native pattern and the attitude and religious beliefs, and with the normalization of extramarital relationships, they become the basis for the occurrence of online infidelity in the first place and marital infidelity in the final place. So it is suggested that due to the unfamiliarity and novelty of the concept of online cheating for a many people in the society, especially young people, more awareness should be given about it with different and appropriate methods and tools by cultural, social and educational authorities.
