Introducing the effect of descriptive (qualitative) and traditional evaluation on mental health of grad 4 students in Tehran’s district 6 in the educational year of 2011-2012

Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 8, Issue 1

Abstract

The present research aimed to investigate the influence of relationship between descriptive (qualitative) and traditional (quantitative) assessment on fourth grade primary school students’ mental health in region 6 of Tehran in academic year 2012-2013. The research method was descriptive correlational study sample, fourth grade teachers are there in the sixth district of Tehran, including 400 academic year 2012-2013 are served. Random sampling and stratified proportional sample size given in Table 201 were against farmers and Morgan. The research method was descriptive and the kind of which was a correlation one and the research population were fourth grade primary school teachers including 400 peoples serving in academic y2012-2013 in region 6 of Tehran. The sampling and classification method was relational and the sample size selected including 201 peoples according to Krejcie & Morgan chart. In the research in order to study the relationship between descriptive and quantitative assessments and students’ mental health, two standard questionnaires titled Mental Health and Educational Motivation were used. The validity of the present questionnaires were again surveyed by 10 experts and the reliability of which were obtained after the pilot implementation between 30 persons from statistical population, were obtained and approved by Cronbach’s alpha 0.87 for Mental Health questionnaire and 0.86 for Educational Motivation questionnaire. Then advisor and consular professors approved them. The data collected from completing questionnaires were analyzed using descriptive statistical methods including frequency, percentage, central tendency indicators, dispersion, distribution, and inferential statistics by method of t test, in order to explore presence or absence of the significant difference between variables using SPSS software. The obtained results revealed that: There is a difference between the students' mental health whose teachers’ method of assessing is descriptive and the student's mental health whose teacher method of assessing is traditional.

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Fakhrollah Younesi, Najmeh Vakili, Afsaneh Saber Garakani

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Fakhrollah Younesi, Najmeh Vakili, Afsaneh Saber Garakani (2014). Introducing the effect of descriptive (qualitative) and traditional evaluation on mental health of grad 4 students in Tehran’s district 6 in the educational year of 2011-2012. International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences, 8(1), 8-15. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-6518