Relationship Between Academic Attitude and Motivation Effective Teaching of Sciences with the Mediation of Scientific Project Model Design between Bachelor Student Teachers of Primary Education Program at Farhangian University

Authors
1 Farhangian University
2 Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, P.O. Box 14665-889, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Considering the role of teaching sciences in students' scientific and skill ability, selecting the appropriate method is an important stage in teaching. The purpose of this study is to relationship between academic attitude and motivation effective teaching of sciences with the mediation of scientific project model design. This research is applied in terms of purpose and survey based on structural equation modeling in terms of method. The statistical population of the research is 225 pre-service teachers of Bushehr Farhangian University, 142 of whom were selected using the cluster sampling method. A researcher making questionnaire, which consisted of questions for variables academic attitude (20 questions), academic motivation (26 questions) and also test project model design (4 questions), was used for data collection. For data analysis from SPSS version 25 software for exploratory factor analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics and from SmartPLS version 3 software for confirmatory factor analysis and path analysis by structural equation modeling used. The findings show that academic attitude have significant and direct effect on motivation effective teaching, academic attitude have significant and direct effect on effective teaching with the mediation of scientific project model design and structural model was approved. Also, attitude of student teachers towards teaching courses related to experimental science education at Farhangian University, as well as their motivation for effective teaching in the experimental science course, were above average and at a favorable level. Also, the results of the structural model show the relationships between the variables. Therefore, positive academic attitude and academic performance of pre-service teachers can be effective on job motivation for effective teaching of experimental sciences course, Of course, teaching active teaching strategies is also necessary.

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