Marzeh Arghavani; Ghasem Ahi; Mohamad hasan Qanifar; Fatemeh Shahabizadeh; Reza Dastgerdi
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IntroductionThe present research was conducted with the aim of investigating the teacher-student and teacher-parent relationships on academic outcomes by mediating the role of metacognitive awareness. The interaction of teacher-student relationships and cognitive and metacognitive strategies plays an ...
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IntroductionThe present research was conducted with the aim of investigating the teacher-student and teacher-parent relationships on academic outcomes by mediating the role of metacognitive awareness. The interaction of teacher-student relationships and cognitive and metacognitive strategies plays an important role in increasing the quality of the educational environment and improving learning and performance of learners. Another factor is the significant effect of teacher-parent relationships and parental involvement on students' learning and developmental and academic processes. Utilizing cognitive and metacognitive strategies is one of the individual characteristics that are strongly affected by the learning and classroom environment and affects a person's performance and academic success, and according to Martin's model of motivation and involvement, it can act as a mediator between teacher-student and teacher-parent relationship along with educational consequences. MethodThe current research was a descriptive-correlation type. The statistical population included all the students of the second secondary level of Birjand city and one of their parents in the academic year in 1398-99. The studied sample included 392 students (254 girls, 138 boys) and one of their parents, who were selected by random multi-stage cluster sampling. Data using tools, teacher-student relationship Murray & Zvoch, teacher-parent relationship Vickers & Minke, metacognitive awareness Schraw & Dennison, academic vitality Dehghanizadeh & Chari, perceived learning subscale Alavi, and Marks, planning for graduation subscale of the National Questionnaire of Student Engagement (NSSE), readiness to enter university student subscale Sokol, and happiness subscale and behavior in the classroom of the National Educational Progress Assessment Questionnaire Blazar & Kraft. For collected and analyzed the data using structural equation modeling and path analysis. ResultsThe findings showed that the direct effect of the teacher-student and teacher-parent relationship on metacognitive awareness is positive and significant and on academic consequences is positive and non-significant. Metacognitive awareness directly, positively, and significantly affects on academic consequences. Also, the indirect effect of teacher-student and teacher-parent relationships on academic consequences through metacognitive awareness is positive and significant. The overall effects of the teacher-student and teacher-parent relationship on academic consequences through metacognitive awareness are positive and significant ConclusionThe findings of this study, influenced by the ecological theory and the teacher's interpersonal behavior model along with a metacognitive orientation based on the social constructivist perspective showed that students' academic consequences are affected by both mesosystem and exosystem level variables, also the important role of teacher-student, teacher-parents, and metacognitive awareness as a mediator in these relationships in improving the educational consequences. Based on these findings, teachers and parents are recommended to pay attention to the elements of metacognitive awareness in the development of student's academic skills to help them become metacognitive experts who are aware of their thinking processes and self-regulated learning skills.
Fatemeh Shahabizadeh; Fatemeh khageaminiyan
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This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of narrative therapy based cognitive-behavioral perspective on symptoms depression and dysthymic disorders of primary school children.The Method of study was an experimental pretest-posttest design on control group. The population consisted of all ...
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This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of narrative therapy based cognitive-behavioral perspective on symptoms depression and dysthymic disorders of primary school children.The Method of study was an experimental pretest-posttest design on control group. The population consisted of all third and fourth grade girls in Yazd in the 2013-2014 school years that they have depression disorders.To perform this study, 26 of those children who have symptoms of depression were selected by Convenience sampling method and were placed into two experimental and control groups randomly.Tool used in this study was children Symptom Inventory (CSI-4), the parent form. narrative therapy based cognitive-behavioral perspective were conducted on the experimental group for 12 sessions lasting 45 minutes and the data were analyzed by analysis of covariance.The results showed that narrative therapy intervention had significant effects on depression disorder. Based on the results of this study, narrative therapy as an effective therapy method can be used in reducing symptoms of depression in children.