Abstract

Surveying the effective factors on increasing the effectiveness of educational groups' activities in Bushehr high schools

Mohammad Behroozi^{a [1]}, Zahra Melekzade^b2

^aAssistant professor, Department of Educational Management, Islamic Azad University , Bushehr Branch, 7514966911 , Iran

^bMA Student in Educational Administration, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr Branch, Iran

The main purpose of this research is to survey the effective factors on increasing the effectiveness of educational groups' activities in Bushehr high schools in curricular year 2013-2014. This is a descriptive-surveying research whose study population is …….. teachers working in Bushehr high schools among which 137 people were randomly selected based on Cochran's Formula according to simple sampling. Data were gathered via a standard questionnaire included 42 questions. Face and Content-related validity were used to determine the validity of the questionnaires and Cronbach's Alpha was applied to measure the reliability of the questionnaire which was calculated 0.881. Some descriptive and inferential indices such as frequency, mean, SD, Spearman's Correlation Coefficient were used to analyze the gathered data. Findings showed that there would be a significant relationship between individual factors, performing group activities, strong group integrity, strong management and leadership of group, favor system of reward payment and contextual factors with the effectiveness of educational groups' activities meaning that the increasing these factors causes the increase in the effectiveness of educational groups' activities.

Keywords: individual factors, group activities, group integrity, group leadership

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