Esmael Zarraii zavaraki; aliakbar kabiri; yahya hgaedi; ali delavar; mohammadreza nili ahmadabadi
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The aim of this study was to identify the components and framework of the educational model for the use of technology in philosophy program for children for gifted students and its internal validation. The research method was heuristic. In order to obtain the educational design model, inductive content ...
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The aim of this study was to identify the components and framework of the educational model for the use of technology in philosophy program for children for gifted students and its internal validation. The research method was heuristic. In order to obtain the educational design model, inductive content analysis was used in the qualitative part of the research, and in the quantitative part, survey method was used to validate the model internally through a questionnaire by experts. The sample population of the study in the qualitative part were related specialists in the fields of educational technology, special education and philosophy of education, written and electronic documents and resources, and in the quantitative part were the specialists of the mentioned fields. The samples were purposefully selected in both groups, and in the qualitative part 31 specialists and experts were selected for the interview and in the quantitative part 36 specialists from different universities and institutes of the country. Data were collected in the qualitative part using semi-structured interviews and content analysis of documents and in the quantitative part using a questionnaire made by the researcher. After conducting content analysis, 7 main categories were obtained. Also, 39 sub-components were extracted for the main categories. After extracting the codes, the components and sub-components were presented in the form of a model. The results of internal validation based on the opinion of experts have shown that the presented educational model has a good internal validity and has the necessary effectiveness to educate talented students.
Ehsan Toofaninejad; Esmaeil Zaraii Zavaraki; Parviz Sharifi Daramadi; Shane Dawson; Mohammadreza Nili Ahmad Adbadi; Ali Delavar
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The goal of this study was to design a learning environment enriched by virtual social network instructional model for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students and find the validity of this model. Considering that in order to ascertain the aims of this research a mixed method in a type of the exploratory ...
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The goal of this study was to design a learning environment enriched by virtual social network instructional model for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students and find the validity of this model. Considering that in order to ascertain the aims of this research a mixed method in a type of the exploratory was used. In the qualitative part, to obtain an instructional design model, an inductive content analysis was performed. In addition, in the quantitative part, for internal validity, the experts’ judgment using a questionnaire survey method was used. The population in qualitative part was all related studies and faculty members familiar with the domain of educational technology, special education, educational technologists, and educationists, teachers of special education, DHH students and their parents, and experiences of successful countries in the field of the research topic. By the goal-oriented sampling procedure, 39 experts for qualitative and 34 experts for the quantitative part was chosen from Iran, Australia and United States. The results showed that in regards to content analysis seven main categories of the model was obtained: engagement, interaction, feedback, content, sources, evaluation, and support. 24 subcategories also were extracted. Finally, the results of all content analyses were presented as a model. Also, the results of internal validation according to the experts' judgment indicated that the instructional model enjoys a good validity and has the effectiveness on learning environments of DHH student