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The current study aimed to investigate the representation of critical thinking in English for the Students of Medicine (II) and the status of the EAP students’ critical thinking ability as its main users. Peterson’s model was used to identify different types of critical reading questions. Furthermore, 150 students of medicine, as the main users of the textbook, completed a critical thinking questionnaire. The results revealed that a large proportion of the exercises in this textbook reflected Vocabulary in Context and Literal Comprehension questions while Extended Reasoning questions, as the major category catering for critical reading, constituted only five percent of the whole items. The results of an independent sample t-test also indicated a moderate level of critical thinking ability among the EAP students of medicine regardless of their gender. The findings call for revisiting the English for Medical Purposes materials and incorporating more activities and exercises gearing to higher-order cognitive skills and critical thinking ability to empower the EAP students with the required set of skills to be successful in their academic and professional communities.

The present study aimed to investigate and compare the relationship between academic buoyancy, learning styles, and school bonding among students educated via the educational approaches of Mizan and public schools in Tehran. The study was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population comprised 2680 elementary-school students in Tehran in the 2018-2019 academic year. A sample of 600 was selected from public and guided discovery schools (300 students from public and 300 from Mizan guided discovery schools) based on stratified random sampling. The research tools included Martin and Marsh Academic Buoyancy Scale, Grasha-Riechmann Learning Style Survey (LSS), and Rezaei Sharif School Bonding Questionnaire (SBQ). Data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The results showed that the score of academic buoyancy was significantly higher among students receiving guided discovery than those receiving traditional education (p <0.05). The mean scores of avoidant and competitive learning styles were lower in students receiving guided discovery learning (p <0.05). Furthermore, the mean scores of school bonding and belief in school were higher among students receiving guided discovery than public education. (p <0.05). The study findings further highlighted the significance of considering learning styles and school bonding on academic buoyancy. It is considered a crucial step in understanding the factors affecting academic buoyancy in students.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of Distributed Leadership on Job Satisfaction of teachers, and then determine the effects of DL and teachers' JS on the academic performance of high school students. This study was a descriptive-correlational work in terms of methodology and theoretical-applied work in terms of purpose. The statistical population of this study included two groups of stakeholders, namely teachers and 11th-grade students at high schools in Khuzestan province, Iran. Multi-stage cluster sampling used for sampling; accordingly, 52 out of 270 active schools in Khuzestan province were selected as samples. On average, seven teachers from each school and all 11th-grade students from those schools who took the final exams participated in the study. The measurement tool for DL and JS was a Questionnaire with an alpha coefficient of 0.83, and 0.96. Final exam scores were also used to measure students' academic performance. Results showed that there was a significant relationship between all variables of DL and teachers' JS. Also, all variables of DL had a significant relationship with students' academic performance. The results of the regression analysis showed that JS and variables of DL are good predictors of students' academic performance. Finally, the results of this study showed that the outcomes of distributed leadership for schools are not limited to teachers' job satisfaction; but it affects directly and indirectly on one of the most important missions of the school - the improvement of student academic performance. This three-dimensional package is a necessity for 21 st -century schools' effectiveness.  

فضاهای سبز در مدارس ابتدایی به عنوان بخشی از ساز و کار بهبود یادگیری دانش آموزان، زمینه ای ارزشمند برای طراحان و برنامه ریزان فراهم می آورد تا با مهیا سازی این فضاها، در تحقق این هدف نقش آفرین باشند. پژوهش حاضر تلاش می نماید، فضاهای داخلی و بیرونی مدارس سبز ابتدایی را از نظر رویکرد احساسی گرایی به صورت تجربی بیازماید. از نظر هدف، این پژوهش کاربردی و از نظر ماهیت داده، از نوع کیفی-کمّی است. جامعه آماری پژوهش را مدیران، کارشناسان، متخصصین آموزش و پرورش و معلّمان تشکیل می دهند. از میان این افراد تعداد 180 نفر از متخصصین انتخاب شدند و بین آن ها پرسشنامه مقایسه ای زوجی، توسط محقق، طراحی و توزیع گردید. با استفاده از نظرات متخصصین، شش شاخص برای مطالعه فضای سبز مدارس ابتدایی یافت شد. این شاخص ها عبارتند از : فضای سبز ورودی، فضای بسته آموزشی، فضای پرورشی، فضاهای باز، فضاهای استراحت و نشستن، فضای آموزشی در طبیعت. برای رتبه بندی و تجزیه و تحلیل آماری از روش رتبه بندی AHP فازی استفاده گردید. با توجه به نتایج بدست آمده از رتبه بندی، الویّت سبز بودن فضاها با در نظر گرفتن سه بعد: غریزی، رفتاری و انعکاسی می توان این گونه بیان نمود که شاخص های کتابخانه رتبه اول، سالن های ورزشی رتبه دوم و نهایتاً کلاس های درس رتبه سوم را به خود اختصاص دادند.