Investigating The Effect Of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Courses On The Creativity Of Students

The present study aims to investigate the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) courses on the creativity of students at Isfahan’s Vocational Education Center. The research method is  a quasi-experimental type. The population of the research involves all the technical vocational students of Isfahan’s ICT Center. The subjects were selected using availability sampling and include 110 students comprising 57 students in the experimental group and 53 students in the control group. The means used for collecting data was Ravens Progressive Matrices Test accounting for homogeneity among the subjects and Dr Abedi’s creativity test involving sub-tests including Fluency, Elaboration, Originality and Flexibility. The latter test was used to compare the creativity of experimental and control groups pre-testing and post testing. The analysis of the findings was carried out using Analysis of covariance at the significance level of P < %05. The results of the study indicated that while there was no significant difference between Fluency and Elaboration creativity tests, there was a significant distinction between Originality and Flexibility creativity tests. In addition, the total result of students’ creativity tests proved to be significant. Thus, it can be concluded that the educational courses of information and communication technology (ICT) have had a positive effect on the creativity of students of Isfahan’s ICT Technical Vocational Center

A 3D heterometallic Ni(ii)/K(i) MOF with a rare rna topology: Synthesis, structural features, and photocatalytic dye degradation modeling

Treatment of Ni(ii) acetate with picolinic acid (Hpic) and KSCN resulted in the self-assembly generation of a new heterometallic and heteroleptic 3D metal-organic framework (MOF) formulated as [Ni(μ3-pic)2K(μ-SCN)]n (1). The crystal structure of 1 features a very intricate structure with a rare type of rna topology. This compound extends a still limited family of heterometallic picolinate-driven MOFs and represents the first Ni/K-picolinate derivative. Micro- and nanoscale samples of 1 (hereinafter 1s) were also obtained by a sonochemical irradiation method, wherein the effects of sonication power, reaction time, reactant concentration and temperature on the morphology of 1s were studied. Ultrasonically generated samples of 1s were characterized by standard methods and applied as photocatalysts for the photodegradation of bromocresol green (BCG) in aqueous solution under visible-light, leading to 94% degradation efficiency. The response surface methodology (RSM) with central composite design (CCD) was used for modeling and optimization of photodegradation variables such as pH, irradiation time, the initial BCG concentration, and catalyst dosage. © 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique