Anticipating Students, Academic Advancement According to Social Competence, Mediating Role Academic Meaning
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Majid Khatibi , Ghamar Kiani , Gholamhossein Entesar Foumani , Mohammad Saeeid Ahmadi |
Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran , kherad73@yahoo.com |
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Introduction: Academic advancement of students is one of the important indicators in educational evaluation. Characteristics such as social competence and educaional meaning from the students, point of view have decisive role. The aim of this research was anticipating students, academic advancement according to social competence with the mediating role of educational meaning.
Methods: This research was done by descriptive- correlation method. The statitical community of this research includes 3015 grade 11 male students in the region two of Rasht in educational year 2019-2020 and 341 students were selected by random sampling cluster. For gathering the data, the average of second semester of the students, social competence questionnaire of Felner Lis and Philips (1990) and educational meaning questionnaire of Henderson, king and Smith (2006) were used. Research data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling with SPSS26 and AMOS24 software.
Results: The results of structural equation modeling showed that the direct effect of social competence on the variable of academic achievement was significant (P<0.001). The direct effect of social competence on the variable of academic meaning and the direct effect of academic meaning on the variable of academic achievement were significant (P<0.001). The indirect effect of social competence mediated by academic meaning on academic achievement variable was significant (P<0.001).
Conclusion: According to the results of findings in this research, we can say that structural model of research fits with the gathered data. Based on the results of this study education policy makers can use the social competence variable to mediate academic meaning to explain the relationship between students' academic achievement.
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Keywords: Academic Advancement, Social Competence, Educational Meaning, Learning |
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Special Received: 2020/11/24 | Accepted: 2022/01/30 | Published: 2022/01/30
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