Thesis:

The Impact of Digital Technology-Based Learning on Improving Performance٫ Job Satisfaction٫ and Improving Educational Quality of Elementary School Teachers in Khoshab County In the Academic Year ۱۴۰۴-۱۴۰۳

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the role of parents' religious beliefs in predicting the life orientation and epistemological beliefs of female students in the first secondary school of Sabzevar in the academic year 1403-1404. The present study is an applied research in terms of its purpose and a field study in terms of its data collection method, and was conducted using a survey method. The statistical population of this study is all female students in the first secondary school of Sabzevar along with their parents, whose number is 1900 people. To select the sample, 308 people were identified using the Morgan table. In order to conduct the research, after the questionnaire was developed and validated, the questionnaire was distributed online among female students in the first secondary school of Sabzevar in a simple random manner, and then the relationship between the variables was examined. In this study, the standard questionnaires of religious beliefs of parents by Alavi (1990), life orientation - revised version (Schier and Carver-1985) and epistemological beliefs by Schumer-Khaleghinejad, Besharat and Zamanpour (2011) were used. The content validity of all three questionnaires was confirmed by a number of experts and educational management specialists, and the reliability of the questionnaires has been previously measured. Inferential and descriptive statistics and SPSS version 27 software were used to analyze the data. Descriptive statistics were used to examine graphs and tables, and inferential statistics were used to analyze the research hypotheses, which were Pearson correlation tests, regression analysis, and k-s tests. The research findings showed that there is a significant relationship between parents' religious beliefs and life orientation and epistemological beliefs of female students in the first grade of secondary school in Sabzevar. There is also a significant positive relationship between parents' religious beliefs and students' life orientation, and parents' religious beliefs and students' epistemological beliefs.

Keywords: Parents' religious beliefs - Life orientation - Students' epistemological beliefs