Journal of Theory & Practice in Curriculum

Fiction and Moral Education: A Study in Elementary Course Curriculum

shahla dehghani

This paper aimed to clarify the role of moral concepts in elementary course curriculum. By qualitative content analysis, firstly, the moral concepts in textbooks are inductively determined and then sorted into more general categories. Then, according to fluency and integration in any class and also evolutionary arranging in the whole course, the vertical and horizontal organizations of these concepts are examined. The results showed that Persian books in all courses have the most fictions and the most moral concepts. Unfortunately arranging of concepts in those books are not noticed and among fifteen moral concepts only “good behaving”, “loving humankind” and “effort” have the fluency and integrity factors, qualitatively or quantitatively. The other concepts, not in the repetition, nor in the arrangement, have an appropriate organization in different courses.

The pathology of Farhangian university internship for present an appropriate model: a mixed study

The purpose of the present research was The pathology of Farhangian university internship for present an appropriate model. Mixed species research was used and Sequential explanatory method. The study population consisted of teachers, teachers' guides and Interns Farhangian university have been Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province. Quantitative phase, teachers census method and the other two groups were sampled randomly. Purposive sampling was used in the qualitative phase.According to the results, Also, among the objectives, learning activities, time, space and evaluation of school education; The teachers took time component and two other groups, learning activities and assessment was unfavorable. In the qualitative phase of the seven themes of opportunity, challenge and 17 were 14 Requirements. Based on the findings and opinion of experts, a model with 14 factors in three areas of policy-making, implementation and support presented

The effect of Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) on math achievement of elementary students

Masoud Geramipour

Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) is a supervision method of student’s educational achievement through direct assessment of predicted skills in the curriculum. Although almost half a century passes from the introduction of CBM in the world, however it has not been considered in Iranian curriculum. So, the aim of this research was to introduce and investigate the impact of CBM on math achievement of elementary students in comparison with conventional methods of formative evaluation. The present study based on the goal is applied research and in term of data collection is quasi experimental method with control group and pretest for a sample of 3rd grade elementary students. Results of Analysis of Covariance showed that CBM has significant effect on elementary students’ math achievement. Based on this research results, it is recommended that CBM is used in elementary curriculum as a more effective method of formative evaluation.

Parallel teaching: An Approach to improve the academic performance of students in mathematics and their attitudes toward school

sirous asadian

This study aimed to investigate the impact of Parallel teaching on the academic performance of students in the sixth grade in math and their attitude toward school was conducted. The research method was experimental and pretest-posttest with control and experimental groups. Statistical population consisted sixth female students in Tabriz in the academic year 94-95 and the sample size is 70 persons that 35 of them in the control group and 35 patients in the experimental group were exposed. So in the experimental group Parallel teaching was conducted for 2 months and in the control group one teacher was used for teaching. The Analysis of ANCOVA was performed on the math achievement of students in the experimental and control group's shows that the students' mathematics achievement between the experimental and control groups was a significant difference observed

Narrative journal experience of pre-service teachers in Practicum course

soghra maleki

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine eight teacher students’ experiences in using the reflective narrative journal in the process of their Practicum. Specifically, this study focused on capturing the essence of the experiences related to reactions, feelings and thoughts about the reflective narrative journal entries in Practicum process. Qualitative analysis revealed that reflective narrative journal for student teachers encompasses the progress of personal, professional knowledge, mental discipline, context to link theory with practice-world, professional interaction development with others, self-awareness from their development process.In addition to those, It endeavours Side effects such as empowerment in writing.

Design research competency of primary school students in second

The aim of the research, design management competencies required and in accordance with the primary second period. This research is descriptive survey. The population consisted of documents the educational system, domestic and foreign experts and the results of some research that purposive sampling, the National Curriculum Document and a number of studies that focus on the introduction of management competencies were selected. To design a competency model, the design approach (Model Byham and Meyer) was used in five stages. For the analysis of questionnaire data, indices such as mean, standard deviation and t-test were used. Finally, given the research competency model fits the second period was the initial draw, which consists of five specific competencies Cluster sub-clusters 14 and 11 of the general merit.

Innovations in Teaching: Using Moodle E-learning Platform in the Development of a Curriculum for the Undergraduate Course Consecutive Interpreting to Enhance Interactions among Learners

Saeed Ketabi

This study was conducted to remedy the shortcomings of the curriculum that the authors had developed for the course Consecutive Interpreting. The curriculum had been designed adopting a social constructivist framework and implemented for a semester to detect the imperfections. Since the main problems centered on the paucity of learners' interactions and the limitedness of the existing interactions to few learners, the face-to-face class was complemented with an online class on Moodle. The blended design was implemented for another semester to evaluate its efficiency in solving the problems. Three public forums were used for discussions. The study revealed that Forum is an efficient module in enhancing interactions. Besides, the differences between the mean participation rate of students with different gender, age and semester of entrance turned out not to be significant, indicating that such variations in the online class had not been barriers hindering learners from getting into interaction.

روایتی از کلاس‌های درس دانشگاهی (تجربه زیسته استادان دانشگاه)

کتاب روایتی از کلاس های درس دانشگاهی , آن گونه که عباس کاظمی در مقدمه آورده است, بخشی از گزارش پژوهشی مفصل است که از سال 1393 آغازشده و به دنبال تحقیق درباره کلاس های درس و نارضایتی استادان و دانشجویان از کلاس است. دانشجویانی که از محتوای کلاس ها ناراضی اند و استادانی که بی رغبتی دانشجویان به کلاس و درس آن ها را آزار می دهد.
این کتاب شامل دو نوع گفتار است. در برخی از این گفتارها, افراد از تجربه زیسته خود سخن گفته اند و در برخی دیگر, تحلیل ها, ایده ها و نظرات خود درباره کلاس درس دانشگاهی را بیان کرده اند. همه آن ها از تجربه تدریس خود نمی گویند, بلکه بعضی از آن ها, ایده هایی عرضه می کنند.