Study of the Relationship Between Community Junior College Faculty Members' Perceptions of Their Participation in Academic Decision-making and Attitudes Toward Collective Negotiations

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Investigating the components of English Listening Learning anxiety and English Language Classroom Anxiety in Predicting Adolescents Students’ English language Academic Performance

Introduction: The present research aimed to investigate the components of listening anxiety & English language classroom anxiety in predicting students’ English language academic performance.Methods: Considering the objective, the statistical population included all the female students in the age range of 13 to 18 years old studying in Shokouh language institutes located in Sari, Ghaemshahr, Babol, Babolsar, and Amirkola in the summer trimester of 2016, out of which a sample of 545 language learners was selected through multi-stage random sampling. To collect the data, Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale, Foreign Language Listening Anxiety Scale and Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were used and  to assess the  students’ English academic performance , their final scores was used.Results: Pearson correlation and stepwise regression analysis were employed to analyze the data subsequent to the administration of the research questionnaires. Research findings indicated the correlation between the components of English language class anxiety, listening anxiety and academic performance in the English language lesson. Based on the results of step-wise regression analysis,these variables explained 41 percent of the changes of academic performance in the language lesson. Given the Betta coefficients, Tension and worry over English Listening had the highest predictive power for academic performance.Conclusion: The practical implications of the present research indicate that necessary plans should be employed to control and decrease the effective factors of students’ anxiety  in English language class and anxiety in listening skill.

Assessing professional qualifications of primary school teachers

The purpose of this research was to study elementary teachers’ professional competence. The research method was descriptive-correlation with emphasis to structural equation. The population of this research was consisted of elementary teachers(160persons) that based on the morgans table the samples was 113 persons which were selected at random and stratified. a standard questionnaire (which title evaluation of teachers’ professional competence was used to collected the data with %87 Cronbach’s alpha. its face and content validity confirmed with the professors’ comments. The data analyze done with spss software and factor analysis. The results showed that the overall average of the 11 criteria (4.38) was higher than the average and teachers had relatively good professional competence. and all the criteria presented with scores higher than the overall average of 3 are the criteria of their professional competence.and the two factors of activity for professional development (with an average of 7.73) and educational designing and planning (with an average of 7.26) are the most important and effective Factors and 2 factors of measuring and communicating with learning outcomes (with an average of 4.39) and participation in administrative and managerial affairs (with an average of 4.35) have been the least important factors in the professional competence of teachers.Keywords: professional qualifications; primary school teacher

Structural Relationship of Faculty-Student Interaction and Faculty’s Active Teaching Method with Students’ Competencies development by Mediating the Knowledge Acquisition

The aim of this study, was to investigate the structural relationship of faculty-student interaction and faculty’s active teaching method with students’ competencies development by mediating the knowledge acquisition among the students of Semnan University. The present study was an applied research on the basis of purpose and was a type of descriptive-correlative studies on the basis of data collection method. Statistical population included all the undergraduates and masters of Semnan University (10950 people) in the academic year 1396-97 that 266 students (183 undergraduates and 83 masters) were selected as study sample using stratified sampling method. All of them completed the faculty-student interaction (Hernández-López et al, 2016), faculty’s active teaching method (Hernández-López et al, 2016), knowledge acquisition (Hernández-López et al, 2016) and students’ competencies development (Hernández-López et al, 2016) scales. After calculating the validity and reliability of the instruments, the data was analyzed by correlation and path analysis methods. The findings showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between faculty-student interactions, faculty’s active teaching method, and knowledge acquisition with students’ competencies development. Faculty-student interaction has a direct and significant effect on students’ competencies development. Also, faculty-student interaction with the mediation of knowledge acquisition had an indirect and significant effect on students’ competencies development. Faculty’s active teaching method has a direct and significant effect on students’ competencies development. Faculty’s active teaching method with the mediation of knowledge acquisition has an indirect and significant effect on students’ competencies development. Faculty and student interaction, faculty’s active teaching method and knowledge acquisition explain 33% of variance of students’ competencies development. The results indicated the importance of paying attention to the teaching method, how to interact with the student and knowledge acquisition in increasing the students’ competencies

Policies, Patterns and Principles of Successful School Management (Review of Findings International ISSPP Project)

High drop-out rates, low test scores, and rising social disruptions in schools are prominent indicators that education should change based on that, and management should be considered as a solution to problems. This article reviews the successful school management literature. In fact, the main focus is on the international literature of successful schools, especially the findings of the ISSPP project. The main purpose is to review and summarize the main findings of the empirical study of successful school management. Some of these findings highlight characteristics of successful school principals that often increase their degree of homogeneity. These findings are categorized into several important principles, all of which are supported by very strong empirical evidence. The first two cases have the most evidence. The results of review studies suggest that we may need to correct and redefine today's school principals and what they are doing to achieve students' academic success

Social determinants of health during and after coronavirus: a qualitative study

Abstract Background Health has multiple dimensions influenced not only by individual factors but also by broader social, economic, cultural, and political structures. The widespread COVID-19 pandemic has multidimensional effects on people’s lives, which can have effects on individuals’ lifestyles after the COVID-19. This study aimed to speculate the social determinants of health during and after the COVID-19, which can lead to more effective planning for promoting community health. Methods The present study interviewed 21 experts in social and medical fields during four months. The sampling method was snowball. The interviews were semi-structured and administered in-person or electronic. All interviews were transcribed and analyzed according to the Brown and Clarke’s six-stage framework to extract themes. Results the participants were 13 males, eight experts in social field, all had PhD, 17 were academic members, and 10 were members of the Social Determinants of Health Research Center. The qualitative content analysis induced seven different social themes that affect the health which included: justice (3 Subcategories), integration (4 Subcategories), acceptance (4 Subcategories), participation (2 Subcategories), adaptation (3 Subcategories), flourishing (4 Subcategories), and cohesion (3 Subcategories). Conclusions According to the present study, a grand plan to cover all positive and negative social effects of COVID-19 should have at least seven different dimensions. However, the present models of effective social determinants in health do not have such comprehensiveness. Future studies may provide a proper model to be used in clinical and research fields