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Background and Objectives: The changes in the new world, due to social, cultural, and the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs), have led to a modification in the objectives and educational approaches to align with the changes occurring in the learners' environment. One of the new approaches that has received attention in teaching and learning to acquire 21st-century skills is peer assessment. This study examined the impact of web-based peer assessment on the self-directed learning skills of educational sciences students at Arak University.Materials and Methods: Researchers employed a quasi-experimental research method with a pre-test-post-test design and included a control group in the study. The target population consisted of all educational sciences students in the academic year 2022-2023 at Arak University (178 students), from which 32 participants were selected through the convenience sampling method and assigned randomly into two groups: experimental and control. To gather data for the study, the researchers utilized the Self-directed Learning Readiness Questionnaire, which comprised 40 items and three subscales: self-management, desire for learning, and self-control. The questionnaire was administered before and after the course. During the 10 sessions, web-based peer assessment was integrated into the training process in the experimental group. In this way, courses, students, and the instructor were defined in the Learning Management System (LMS) of Arak University. After each teaching session, the teacher added an activity (peer assessment) in the system, in such a way that the students did homework related to the subject of the lesson. The teaching approach in both the experimental and control groups involved the teacher following a lesson plan and allowing the learners to ask questions during the teaching process. However, there was a difference in how the two groups were assessed. In the experimental group, peer assessment was utilized, where students reviewed and assessed their classmates' assignments. On the other hand, the control group followed a conventional evaluation method. In the classroom, the teacher delivered lessons and assigned homework to the students. The students needed to complete the assignments and submit them to the teacher for assessment. The teacher reviewed the student’s homework in each session and provided feedback. Statistical analyses, including descriptive statistics (i.e., mean and standard deviation), as well as inferential statistics (i.e., Analysis of Covariance), were employed to analyze the data.Findings: The findings indicated that peer assessment training had a notable impact on self-directed learning skills and their sub-scales, including self-management, desire for learning, and self-control (p

Background and Objectives: The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of gamification-based test on exam anxiety, interest and learning of mathematics lesson of the sixth grade of elementary school students.Methods: The method used in the current research was quasi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group, and was applied in term of puropos. The statistical population in the present study included all the male students of the sixth grade of elementary school in Asadabad in the academic year of 2021-2022. Among these, two classes of 17 students were selected through convinience sampling method and were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. During eight training sessions, after the end of each session and the teacher's training in the virtual classroom, the test was conducted normally for the control group, but for the experimental group, the test was conducted as gamification. In this way, questions were designed based on the content and topics that were taught in each session and uploaded to the Kahoot platform. After the end of each session, the teacher provided the link to the students, the students entered Kahoot and answered the questions. While answering the questions, they could see their status compared to other students. Students chose avatars and competed with others in an attractive and multimedia environment. Also, the teacher shared the leader board after the exam in the Shad software and the names of the best ones were recorded. In order to collect data, Abolghasmi et al.'s exam anxiety questionnaire, Nemati's math interest questionnaire and a researcher-made learning test were applied. In order to determine the validity of the form and content of the test, the opinions of 12 subject expert teachers were used. For content validity, CVR indices were used, and these values were checked in each question and they were greater than 0.7; so, the content validity of the test was also confirmed. The reliability of the math learning test in the study was obtained using the Kuder-Richardson method, 0.81, which indicated the appropriate reliability of this test. In order to collect data, Abolghasemi et al.'s test anxiety questionnaire, Nemati's math interest questionnaire, and the researcher's learning test were used. Data were analyzed using analysis of covarianceResults: The results of covariance analysis showed that the experimental intervention could not significantly reduce the exam anxiety, or increase interest in mathematics and the learning rate of experimental group students (P

Background and Objectives: Today, turning to virtual education in schools and universities along with face-to-face training is inevitable. Virtual education has received much attention in recent years in Iran. This becomes even more important and valuable when it comes to teaching practical courses. Architecture, as a field in which many of its courses are considered practical, would encounter serious challenges in students' learning if the important points in virtual education are not considered. One of the issues that may be overlooked in the field of virtual education is the discussion of learning differences among students. Learning style is a characteristic that determines how students learn and how they prefer to learn, and the teacher also learns to identify and guide the needs of individual students. Failure to pay attention to the differences in students’ learning styles, especially in virtual education, where the teacher does not have much visual and face-to-face communication with students, will sometimes lead to a complete lack of transfer of concepts in education. Traditional classroom-based learning, on the other hand, typically leads to a consistent learning process that does not fit the learners’ different needs, while in targeted web-based learning programs, learning can be implemented properly. The cognition of the differences in learning process among students is one of the important factors in developing and improving education. Examining the different styles of students in learning, can be helpful to improve the quality of education and transfer better learning to students, especially in virtual education.Methods: In this article, we try to know the four divisions of students' learning style, and their performance in different courses of architecture. The present study was conducted on 48 architectural students in their first semester (who has started their studies with virtual education) from different degrees) bachelor and associate degree) in architecture and interior design. Architecture students face different attitudes in various academic years. Because of the impact that cognitive changes have on students' learning styles, it was decided to consider the statistical population among the freshmen in order to reduce the impact of changes in students’ learning styles, so that students' initial learning style is identified. SPSS 23 software was used to analyze the data.Findings: The results showed that the majority of architecture students in the bachelor and associate degree, from the selected community, used the adaptive learning style and the students of the interior design group had convergent learning styles. Studies also showed no significant relationship between degree and students' field of study with their performance. Also, the results of studies demonstrated that students with divergent learning style in the theoretical courses of bachelor’s degree in architecture field, had the best performance (with an average of 20), whereas students with convergent learning style in theoretical-practical courses of bachelor’s degree in architecture earned the lowest performance (with an average of 8.25). According to the results of the studies, it seemed that only in the bachelor’s degree students and in the theoretical-practical course (architectural design 2), there was a significant relationship (sig