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  1 - Attitude of State and Islamic Azad universities' students toward the master's degree Syllabus in Knowledge and Information Sciences in the minor of Information Management
  maryam fattahi narges mohamadalipour
  Objective: Determine the attitude of students toward the master's degree courses syllabus in Knowledge and Information Sciences in the minor of Information Management. Methods: This research has been done by analytical-survey method.Sampling has not been done in this st More

  Objective: Determine the attitude of students toward the master's degree courses syllabus in Knowledge and Information Sciences in the minor of Information Management. Methods: This research has been done by analytical-survey method.Sampling has not been done in this study and the study population consist of the MA students in Knowledge and Information Sciences in the minor of Information Management all of the State and Islamic Azad universities of Iran. The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed by calculating the Cronbach's alpha coefficient. To determine the validity of the questionnaire, in addition to content validity, structural validity was also used. Lisrel software was employed to determine the fitting of the model and it was found that responses has good fitting. Results: The average of ranking attitude of students regarding the necessity of concepts related to the effectiveness, efficiency and content of the Courses Syllabus are about Knowledge and Information Science Fundamentals (in top level), Libraries and Information Society (in top level), Research Methods  (in top level), Research Seminar (in intermediate level), Statistics in Knowledge and Information Science (in top level), Information Representation (in top level), Information Storage and Retrieval (in top level), Database Architecture (in intermediate level), Management Information Systems (in intermediate level), Organizational Knowledge Management (in top level), Evaluation of Information Systems and Services (in intermediate level). Conclusion: Surveyed Students believe clearly that the Courses Syllabus of the graduate course in Knowledge and Information Sciences in the minor of Information Management needs to be revised. Manuscript profile
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  2 - The Relationship between Plagiarism and Spiritual Health among M.S Students of Knowledge &Information Science at Islamic Azad Universities in Tehran
  Leila Nemati-Anaraki roya Pournaghi somayeh rezaei sakineh shekarchi
  Objective: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between plagiarism and spiritual health among students of knowledge information science Islamic Azad universities in Tehran city.  Methodology: The present study was a descriptive survey study. The statist More

  Objective: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between plagiarism and spiritual health among students of knowledge information science Islamic Azad universities in Tehran city.  Methodology: The present study was a descriptive survey study. The statistical population of the study was 486 people. Sampling was performed by simple random sampling. The estimated sample size was 215 based on Cochran's formula. Data collection tools were Goa (2011) plagiarism questionnaire and Paloutzian and Ellison (1982) spiritual health questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential tests) Pearson correlation coefficient) were used to analyze the data with the help of SPSS software version 20. Results: The results of Pearson test showed that there was a significant relationship between spiritual health and plagiarism there was a significant relationship between students' gender variables with plagiarism and spiritual health. There was no significant relationship between the undergraduate variable with spiritual health and plagiarism. The results of Pearson correlation test showed that there was a significant relationship between the existential dimension of spiritual health and rate of plagiarism and the religious dimension of spiritual health and the rate of plagiarism. Conclusion: The results showed that the more spiritual health among students, the less scientific-literary theft among them. Therefore, university officials are advised to focus more on the dimensions of spiritual health among students to maintain a healthy scientific and literary environment in society. Manuscript profile