Asie Zoqi; Masoumeh Shojaei; Abdollah Ghasemi
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Children's development is shaped based on a combination of environmental, organism, physiological and genetic factors. Recent researches on the development of children and toddlers convincingly show that the best growth level happens in a motivating environment and a powerful support. This study ...
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Children's development is shaped based on a combination of environmental, organism, physiological and genetic factors. Recent researches on the development of children and toddlers convincingly show that the best growth level happens in a motivating environment and a powerful support. This study aimed at evaluating the effect of an environment affordance intervention on social development of toddlers aged between 24 and 42 months. The sample included 46 healthy toddlers aged between 24 and 42 months in Ghoochan city who were randomly selected by multi-stage cluster sampling methods. The subjects were assigned to three groups: experimental (n=16), kindergarten (n=15) and control (n=15). The experimental group was placed in an afforded environment for 36 sessions (3 months). To examine toddlers' home environment and afforded environment of experimental group, the Affordances in the Home Environment for Motor Development– (AHEMD) was used for motor development and Vineland Scale was applied for social development. Data were analyzed using univariate analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). The findings showed no significant differences in social development among the groups (P=0.963). The results indicated that environment affordances had no effects on toddlers' social development in the experimental group. Therefore, the present study concluded that environment affordance did not influence toddlers' social development aged between 24 and 42 months.
Seyyed Amir Ahmad Mozaffari; Leila Sabaghiyanrad; Hojat Hatami
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The major aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two teachingmethods of traditional (common) and integrated for physical education on learningbiology and developing social skills in male junior students. This study was semiexperimentalwhich was conducted in Islamshahr city for 12 weeks. ...
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The major aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two teachingmethods of traditional (common) and integrated for physical education on learningbiology and developing social skills in male junior students. This study was semiexperimentalwhich was conducted in Islamshahr city for 12 weeks. The statisticalpopulation consisted of 79 volunteer junior students who studied the second gradeand 52 students were selected by an IQ test and were assigned to two groups oftraditional (n=26) and integrated (n=26) purposively. During these three months,physical education and biology were taught by the common method (separately)for the traditional group while biology was integrated with physical education andtaught for the integrated group. The data were analyzed using Wilcoxon test, UMann Whitney test and t test. The results revealed a significant difference inlearning biology between traditional and integrated groups at α<0.05. The t testresults revealed a significant difference in the mean scores of impulsive behaviorsbetween traditional and integrated groups at α<0.01, that is, the mean scoressignificantly decreased in the integrated method compared to the traditionalmethod. Also, there was a significant difference in the mean scores of suitablesocial behaviors of subjects between integrated and traditional groups (α<0.001).In other words, mean scores of the students in the integrated group significantlyincreased compared to the traditional group.
