abstract this research has been carried out with the purpose of investigating the conditions and related elements of the employment of the educational sciences graduates of hamedan province universities in 1382-1387 academic years. it has been a descriptive research of a correlation kind, and the population number has been 1180 grduates of payam- e noor universites in asad – abaad, kaboudaraha...

the purpose of this study was to investigate how english language teachers in mashhad who teach students in the pre-university cycle perceived the impact of the efltee on their teaching. the target population was nearly all pre-university english language teachers in seven districts of mashhad in the scholastic year 2008/2009. a survey questionnaire which consisted of (36) likert type items, wa...

this exploratory study aimed to investigate a possible relationship between learners’ beliefs about language learning and one of their personality traits; that is,locus of control (loc). both variables, beliefs and locus of control, are assumed to influence the language learning process. the internal control index (ici) and the beliefs about language learning inventory (balli) were administered...

the current study aimed at investigating the relationship between motivation and test preparation strategies (tpss) used by iranian pre-university students in their preparation period for the university entrance exam (uee). due to the importance of uee in iran, this study also attempted to show its impact on these two important variables. to this end, 100 pre-university students in an iranian p...

Introduction: One of the main concepts of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is the concept of the values of people’s lives that can play a significant role in creating a psychological flexibility. Aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric characteristics of Persian version of Valued Living Questionnaire (VLQ). Method: In this Correlation-Descriptive study, 369 Undergradua...

Background and Objectives: Over the past decade self-compassion has gained popularity as a complementary construct to mindfulness, and research on self-compassion is growing at different scopes of psychological sciences. The aim of the present study was to develop a Persian version of self-compassion scale (SCS-P) and to examine its psychometric properties. Materials and Methods: In this descr...

in new management approaches, in the organizations with inflexible structure, existing of red tapes and interruptions caused by limitations and also non-compliance with environmental changes, create demotivation among staff. with regard to the influence of job motivational potential and its relationship to the type of organizational structure( enabling and dissuasive), the goal of this research...

the subjects of the study are only the tefl teachers and students at gilan university. to obtain the desired data, a questionnaire which was based on the theories and disecussions gathered, was used as the main data gathering instrument. to determine the degree of relationship between variables, covariance and pearson product moment correlation coefficient were the formulas applied. the data we...

 Background and Objectives : Physical activities have been recently recommended for the prevention of some chronic diseases such as osteoarthritis. However, the detrimental effects of severe physical activity on musculoskeletal system of athletes are still under debate. The current study aimed to compare the following parameters between retired professional athletes and non-athletic persons rad...

Purpose: The origin of many of the problems encountered in research in the field of knowledge and information science (such as non-applicability, repetition, and lack of innovation) relates to the uncertainty of research needs and priorities in this field. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to identify and categorize important research topics in knowledge and information science, and ...