Compare social and self-learning skills between traditional and smart schools in high school students

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• M Ghanaatpishe ¹
• M Salehi ²

¹ Research Expert / Ministry of Education, Shiraz, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Imam Ali University of Marvdasht Branch of Azad Univesity

Abstract

The aim of this study was to evaluate social skills and self-directed learning of students in traditional high-school to compare with students in smart high-schools in Marvdasht city. Present study in terms of objectives was applied research and in terms of type of study was causal-comparative and for statistical method independent samples t-test was used.
In order to collect required data, questionnaire was used which had reliability of 80/0, and also Cronbach alpha coefficient was 84/0. To collect data, social skills questionnaire SSRS (Gresham, 1990) and self-directed learning Guglielmino (Guglielmino, 1977).
was used. Research questions were based on five-degree Likert scale.
The population consisted of all students in smart and traditional schools in Marvdasht city in the academic year 2014 – 2015 equal to 3355 students and sample group of the research based on Morgan table included 270 students.
In this study, multi-stage sampling method was used including two groups of 135 students, consisted of students studying in traditional and smart schools.
The results of this study demonstrated that there is a significant difference between self-directed learning of students of smart schools comparing with traditional schools, and that the rate of self-directed learning of students of smart schools is more than traditional schools, and there was no significant difference between social skills of students in smart schools and traditional schools.

Keywords

• social skills
• self-directed learning
• smart schools
• traditional schools

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