Investigation of Psychological Environment of Class with Students' Quality at the University of Guilan, Iran

Abstract

The main purpose of this research was investigating the relationship of Psychological Environment of class and students’ quality of learning at University of Guilan. The population of this research was all students of various faculties at University of Guilan and about  5% of students were selected through cluster sampling method with regard to huge size of population (7200 students) Also,  through systematic random sampling.360 students were selected and  357 questionnaires were filled and returned among 360 distributed questionnaires in various majors. Also 35 faculty members (about 10%) from the Academic staff members at university of Guilan were participated in this research for conducting interviews. Instruments for collecting data were a researcher made questionnaire and interview. Descriptive- analytic method has been used in this research. The findings show that in all cases rejected the research hypotheses were confirmed with 95% of confidence. Also in analysis of interview, much emphasis has been put on the effect of factors affecting on psychological atmosphereof class and quality of teaching and learning. In fact it should be stated that there is a positive and direct relationship between Psychological Atmosphere of class and its factors (students' participation in class, students and academic staffs’ interaction, academic staffs’ support from student, students' familiarity with learning tasks) and quality of learning.But there was no significant relationship between students competition with their quality of learning. Finally, with regard to importance of mental states of class in learning process and with regard to research finding, necessary advice and recommendations are presented.