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Download full textOstovar-Namaghi, Seyyed Ali; Iranmehr, Abutaleb; Moghaddam, Mostafa Morady – International Journal of Language Testing, 2021
Some universities in Iran have recently witnessed a shift in admission criteria from university admission test performance towards high school records. This sudden change seems to be unwarranted since the predictive power of high school records has not been explored. To fill in this gap, this study aims at showcasing the predictive validity of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Records, Predictive Validity, College Entrance Examinations
Direct linkMoltafet, Ghavam; Sadati Firoozabadi, Somayeh Sadat; Pour-Raisi, Asieh – Creativity Research Journal, 2018
This study examined the relationship between parental styles and emotional creativity and investigated the mediating role of the fulfillment of basic psychological needs in this relationship. The population included 3372 undergraduate students, among whom, 375 (177 females and 198 males) were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The…
Descriptors: Path Analysis, Creativity, Emotional Development, Psychological Needs
Ravand, Hamdollah; Firoozi, Tahereh – International Journal of Language Testing, 2016
The purpose of the present study was to explore validity of the University Entrance Examination for applicants into English Master's Programs in Iran (Master's UEE) with respect to the Messickian validity framework using the Rasch model. The data of 18821 test takers taking the 2009 version of the UEE were analyzed with Winsteps and R package eRm.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Entrance Examinations, Test Validity, Masters Programs
Soltaninejad, Mehraneh – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2015
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between achievement goal orientations and Learning Strategies. The sample of study consists of 350 public high school students (135 males and 215 females, mean age: 17 ± 0.65) from two high schools in Kerman province of Iran selected by random multistage cluster sampling method. In this…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Learning Strategies, Structural Equation Models, Investigations
Zafarmand, Atefeh; Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh; Akbari, Omid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This article sets out to examine the relationship between EFL learners' goal orientation, metacognitive awareness and self-efficacy in a single framework. One hundred fifteen EFL students from two universities of Mashhad, a city in north-eastern Iran took part in this study. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to examine the…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Goal Orientation, Metacognition, English (Second Language)
Abdekhodaie, Zahra; Tabatabaei, Seyed Mahmood; Gholizadeh, Mortaza – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
In this study, the prevalence of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in kindergarten children in northeast Iran was investigated, and the criterion validity of Conners' parent-teacher questionnaire was evaluated through the use of clinical interviews. This study was a cross-sectional descriptive research project with children in…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Incidence, Predictive Validity, Questionnaires
Hajhashemi, Karim – English Language Teaching, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine whether performance in MI could predict the performance in reading competency. The other objectives were to identify the components of MI which are correlated with the reading test scores, and to determine the relationship between the multiple intelligences and reading proficiency. A descriptive and ex post…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Predictor Variables, Language Proficiency, Multiple Intelligences
Pishghadam, Reza; Noghani, Mohsen; Zabihi, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2011
The aim of this study was to find out the relationship between EFL students' social as well as cultural capital and their foreign language achievement, using Bourdieu's theories in the sociology of education as frames of reference. To this end, the Social and Cultural Capital Questionnaire (SCCQ) was administered to 128 EFL learners majoring in…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedHosseini, A. A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1978
The validity of the Scholastic Aptitude Test of the National Organization for Education Evaluation of the Iranian Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education was examined in relation to the prediction of success of 406 college sophomores in Iran. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Foreign Countries, Grade Prediction, High Schools
