Papers by Higher Education Letter
Higher Education Letter, 2021
Objective: The purpose of this study is to prioritizing for new educational technologies for use ... more Objective: The purpose of this study is to prioritizing for new educational technologies for use in the educational system of one of the military universities of the Iran.
Methods: In the present study, new educational technologies have been divided into two dimensions of new educational methods and tools and have been studied. The statistical population of this study included all faculty members of the Faculty of Humanities and Management and Economics of Tarbiat Modares University. The present study is descriptive in terms of data collection method in the qualitative part of the research and descriptive in the quantitative part; Accordingly, a standard questionnaire was prepared to collect data from experts and conducted in a structured interview. Finally, after reaching theoretical saturation in the answers, twenty-eight interviews were used to analyze the data. SPSS software was used to describe the data and comparative analysis was used to prioritize the components. PSS software was used to describe the data and comparative-analogical analysis was used to prioritize the components.
Results: According to the research results, in prioritizing new educational technologies, finally, metacognitive, hybrid, multimedia, inverse, contingent, tris and film tools of strip slide, internet, e-book and library, smart board and computer, Respectively, obtained the highest score and were given priority.
Conclusion: In general, it can be said that the use of selected methods, which are generally active methods among learners, will lead to deeper and more sustainable learning, and the use of selected smart and electronic tools are essential for the growth of education in this university.
Higher Education Letter, 2021
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitude of technical and engineering... more Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitude of technical and engineering students of Urmia university towards the quality of educational services based on an integrated model.
Methods: The research method was descriptive correlational and the statistical population included all 2289 technical and engineering students of Urmia University in the academic year of 2019-2020. The sample size was determined by stratified proportional random sampling method using Morgan table of 328 people from the Faculty of Engineering.
The research instrument was Service Quality Questionnaire based on EDUQUAL and SERQUAL models and its validity was confirmed by content validity method. The reliability of the questionnaire was also calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.89.
Results: The results related to the research hypotheses indicated that there is a negative gap in all aspects of the quality of educational services. The results of Friedman test also showed that the largest gap is related to the dimension of physical facilities and the lowest gap is related to the dimension of empathy. Furthermore, the results showed that in terms of gender and educational level, there is no difference between the two existing and desirable conditions of the quality of education services.
Conclusion: Based on the obtained results, it is suggested to use the opinions of technical and engineering students in relation to decisions related to university services.
Higher Education Letter, 2021
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the focal relationship betweenprofessors ... more Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the focal relationship betweenprofessors effective teaching and students research self-efficacy.
Methods: The research population were 3,000 people of the postgraduate students of Bu Ali Sina University in the academic year of 2019 2020, which were selected by proportional stratified sampling method and based on Morgan table, a sample of three hundred and forty-one people was selected. The research method is quantitative, descriptive and in type of correlational studies. The research instruments were the Islamian Effective Teaching Questionnaire (2014) and the Salehi Research Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (2011). The reliability and validity of the instrument were determined through Cronbach's alpha and confirmatory factor analysis. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (center and dispersion indices) and inferential statistics (focal correlation and multiple linear regression) using SPSS 25 software.
Results: Findings indicate that the dimensions of effective teaching of professors have a positive and significant focal correlation in alpha 0.01 to 0.7 with the dimensions of students 'research self-efficacy.
Conclusion: The results showed that the dimensions of effective teaching of professors can explain %294 of the variance of students' self-efficacy.
Higher Education Letter, 2021
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the application of professional ethics di... more Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the application of professional ethics dimensions of faculty members of Yazd University and their role in students' academic motivation.
Methods: This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive correlational in terms of method. The statistical population consists of students of Yazd University who were selected based on the calculated sample size of three hundred and eighty-five people through the available sampling method. In order to collect data, the researcher made questionnaire of professional ethics and the standard questionnaire of academic attitudes were used, that their validity was confirmed by content validity and construct validity, and their reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability. Data analysis was performed by one-way t-test in SPSS and structural equation modeling using Amos software.
Results: The results showed that the level of professional ethics of faculty members is above average. Among the dimensions of professional ethics, the lowest average was related to the observance of justice, which is below average, but it also had the highest average after the issue of communication with the student. Testing the hypotheses showed that among the dimensions of professional ethics, observing justice has the greatest effect on students ‘academic motivation, while the effect of observing rules and regulations on students' motivation was not confirmed.
Conclusion: Adherence to professional ethics by faculty members can be an important factor in increasing students' academic motivation. Therefore, faculty members should pay attention to maintaining and promoting professional ethics.
Higher Education Letter, 2021
Objective: The purpose of this study was to commercialize knowledge based on the role of organiza... more Objective: The purpose of this study was to commercialize knowledge based on the role of organizational ambidexterity.
Methods: The present study in terms of purpose is applied with a qualitative approach. Research data have been collected using inductive content analysis of knowledge commercialization frameworks and holding two Delphi panel courses by knowledge commercialization experts based on ambidexterity. participants included twenty-eight person of university experts, specialists and people working in growth centers in Mazandaran province in the academic year of 2019-2020, who were selected by snowball method until reaching theoretical saturation. Data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using semantic unit analysis and Delphi technique.
Results: According to the findings, dimensions, components and indicators of knowledge commercialization based on organizational ambidexterity in the form of four dimensions including commercialization of knowledge based on structural ambidexterity, managerial ambidexterity, contextual ambidexterity and innovative ambidexterity, and ten components of spatial separation, parallel structures, support of managers, empowerment actions of manager, motivational actions of the manager, Opportunistic actions of the manager, institutional, individual, exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation and eighty-three indicators were identified.
Conclusion: Based on the research results, all dimensions, components and indicators were approved.
Higher Education Letter, 2021
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the issues and expectations of internatio... more Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the issues and expectations of international students from Iranian higher education in the Corona crisis.
Methods: The research is applied in terms of purpose and has been implemented with a qualitative perspective. One hundred and two international students studying in Iran participated in this study and answered open-ended and closed-ended questions. Content analysis method was conducted to analyze the data.
Results: The findings of the study, based on coding and categorization, showed that the most important concerns of international students in the corona crisis can be classified into four categories: educational, research, economic, and family personal. In addition, the expectations of the respondents from the university were classified into three categories: communication-information, education, and support.
Conclusion: The Corona era, along with all the concerns, provides a valuable opportunity to identify and meet the expectations of international students and increase their satisfaction, to attract more international students in the post-Corona era. Accordingly, the findings of this study are useful and practical for universities that seek to attract more international students.
Higher Education Letter, 2021
Objective: Universities are among the social systems that are known as the driving force of aware... more Objective: Universities are among the social systems that are known as the driving force of awareness, commanding and guiding the thoughts of societies. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of intelligent leadership on the educational performance of faculty members of public universities in Zahedan, Iran.
Methods: This research in terms of applied purpose and implementation is a descriptive correlation study based on the structural equation model. The statistical population included all faculty members of public universities in Zahedan, 666 people, whose sample size was estimated to be 120 people based on Cochran's formula by stratified random sampling.
Intelligent leadership and educational performance questionnaires (designed by the Office of Supervision and Evaluation of Universities) were used to collect research data.
Content validity was confirmed by experts, structural validity was calculated through factor analysis, and reliability was also calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient equal to 0.97 and 0.93. SPSS23 and Smart PLS statistical software were used to analyze the data.
Results: According to the research findings, intelligent leadership with a path coefficient (0.33) affects educational performance and the component of collective leadership with a path coefficient (0.38) has the greatest impact on the educational performance of faculty members.
Conclusion: By fitting the conceptual model of the research, it was assumed that intelligent leadership as a latent variable directly effects on educational performance of faculty members. Therefore, a great care must be taken in determining academic leadership styles because the methods that influence the behavior of faculty members are quite different from those found in traditional business companies.
Higher Education Letter, 2021
Decreasing the efficiency of universities and increasing distrust have reduced the attractiveness... more Decreasing the efficiency of universities and increasing distrust have reduced the attractiveness of universities and weakened the demand for them. Therefore, trying to create more educational dynamics and acquire an educational brand that is dependent in one dimension on the self-developed behaviors of faculty members and can improve the level of educational trust. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of educational dynamics and educational brand on perceived public trust and self-development behavior of faculty members of Sistan and Baluchestan University. The statistical population includes all faculty members of Sistan and Baluchestan University (380). Samples were selected by stratified random sampling using 191 Morgan table. Standard questionnaires of educational dynamics of Shafipour Motlagh and Moosivand (2018); Educational brand Shafipour Motlagh and Moosivand (2018); the general trust of Gharakhani et al. (2014) and the self-developmental behavior of Ahmadi et al. (2017) were used. Their validity of questionnaires was calculated and confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach's alpha test and combined reliability. Data analysis tools were SPSS 20 and Smart Pls software. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. The results showed that educational dynamics and educational brand affect perceived public trust and self-development behavior of faculty members of Sistan and Baluchestan University.
Higher Education Letter, 2021
The aim of this study was to predict the lifestyle of students based on the level of media litera... more The aim of this study was to predict the lifestyle of students based on the level of media literacy. In this research, a descriptive correlational research method has been used. The target population is undergraduate students of Bu Ali Sina University. By relative stratified sampling and using Krejcie and Morgan table, the number of samples was 400. To collect the required data, two questionnaires (researcher-made media literacy questionnaire and standard lifestyle questionnaire of Lali et al., 2012) were used to determine the validity of content validity and to calculate their reliability, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used. They were calculated in the mentioned questionnaires as 0.91 and 0.88, respectively. Findings showed that there is a positive and significant correlation between media literacy and its components (media access, media use, media critical thinking and media message production) with students' lifestyle but between media literacy and the type of coverage of the study group. There is an inverse relationship and significance, which means that the higher the youth literacy of the youth, the less anti-normative coverage will be. It was also found that all components of media literacy have the ability to predict the lifestyle of students.
Higher Education Letter, 2021
The aim of this study was to describe faculty development programs in different universities. Thi... more The aim of this study was to describe faculty development programs in different universities. This study is a descriptive comparative study. Development programs of 53 universities in Iran, U.S., Canada, Australia, England and Hong_Kong were analyzed with a qualitative Meta-synthesis approach through line-by-line coding in MAXQDA 10. Identified components were integrated and described inductively. According to findings, delivery methods are: workshops, mentoring, long-term-courses, seminars, internship under mentor’s supervision, discussion-groups, organizational-socialization, showcase-best practices, individual-consultation, university-meeting-participation, networking, peer-evaluation, study-groups, short-term-courses, social-participation, shadow-program, writing-teaching-portfolio, experienced-faculty-interview, group-consultation, teamwork, self-study, open-classroom-events. The content offered includes educational-pedagogical issues, leadership-management, social-interpersonal-competencies and academic-writing, research, research-ethics, futurology, practical-knowledge, familiarity with organizational-roles, personal-competencies, service-providing, professional-ethics and scientific-community-acceptance. Topics with general audience are planned centrally with cooperation of graduate students’ office, technology support centers, libraries and departments such as school of management and topics with specific audience are planned by subject department in collaboration with cluster universities. Delivery Methods are determined by the goals, facilities, and culture of institution. Content is determined according to institution’s goals. In order to successfully designed programs, it is necessary to identify faculty needs and their learning culture. Implementing programs in one way and by one center cannot have the desired effect.
Higher Education Letter, 2021
In order to achieve its goals, the higher education system in each country uses various elements,... more In order to achieve its goals, the higher education system in each country uses various elements, and university curricula is one of the most important elements and reflection of the success and failure, and even in most cases, guide to the higher education system. However, the inadequacy of the skills of university graduates from industrial universities and technical and engineering faculties in meeting the specialized needs of employers in industry due to incomplete training of students in these fields in Iran, the need to validate the curricula of technical and engineering fields in the country. It became more apparent. In this regard, this study aimed at reviewing and analyzing institutional mapping, criteria and processes for validating curricula in technical and engineering disciplines in countries around the world and using the comparative method of George Brady. The results determined that in the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, and Japan alone, 38.4 percent of all selected institutions and private institutions are responsible for accrediting technical and engineering curricula, and in Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. The United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Pakistan, Egypt, and South Africa are institutions and semi-governmental institutions that are accredited to validate this curricula (61/6%). Also, the analysis of the validation criteria of the curricula of technical and engineering fields of the studied countries indicated that; the highest number of accreditation criteria is related to the United Arab Emirates and Malaysia with ten criteria and the lowest number is related to Canada and Egypt with four accreditation criteria.
Higher Education Letter, 2021
The aim of this study was to investigate the consequences of establishment of Chabahar Islamic Az... more The aim of this study was to investigate the consequences of establishment of Chabahar Islamic Azad University in educational, economic, cultural and social fields on women's affairs. The research method is descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of the study consists of all undergraduate and undergraduate students in all the final and pre-final semesters in all fields of 1400. For this purpose, 302 people were selected by stratified random sampling from the statistical population. For the consequences of establishing Islamic Azad University on women's affairs, the researcher software with reliability of 0.86 was used and independent T-test, Friedman and Chi-square tests were used for data analysis. The findings showed: The activities of Islamic Azad University of Chabahar Branch have a significant impact on the educational (t=12.16 and sig=0.000), economic (t=4.28 and sig=0.000), cultural (t=9.16 and sig=0.000) and social (t=9.46 and sig=0.000) affairs of women in this city, and the share of educational ( =27.73) affairs is more than any other.
Higher Education Letter, 2021
This study is in search of modeling based on classification and separation of factors relating to... more This study is in search of modeling based on classification and separation of factors relating to commitment of university students to professional role in the framework of adherence to science norms with emphasis of theoretical framework of Weidman in relation to sociability of postgraduate students by interpretative- structural modeling. Studied statistical population is professors of humanistic faculty in Kashan University. 10 people were selected by purposive sampling and their opinions were used in this study. According to study’s results, formation of student identity is placed at the highest level of factors relating to commitment to the professional role of students. Scientific sociability consisted of variables such as educational culture of faculty, interaction to friends; academic sociability and membership in professional communities were identified in the second level of efficacy as linking variable.
Higher Education Letter, 2021
Purpose: Universities have a special status as centers of science, knowledge and research promoti... more Purpose: Universities have a special status as centers of science, knowledge and research promotion, economic, cultural and social development. Academic ranking systems call for one university to rank with other universities based on pre-coded criteria. The purpose of this study was to investigate the viewpoints of Kurdistan University professors regarding the ranking system of Iranian universities.
Methodology: This research is a qualitative research based on the method of Colaizzi’s descriptive phenomenology. The study population consisted of faculty members of Kurdistan University in the academic year 2018-2019. Using a purposive sampling method, out of 348 faculty members of Kurdistan University, 15 professors from different faculties answered the research questions through semi-structured interviews. Validity method was used to measure validity. The 397 minutes of recorded interviews were analyzed thematically after being implemented on paper.
Results: In the most important challenges of ranking system, 5 main themes of educational quantification, research quantification, inappropriate ranking, central policy and credits, in the most important challenges solutions 3 main themes of peer comparisons, fairness and attention. The strings were obtained for ranking outcomes, 3 main themes of competitiveness, promotion of position and attraction of facilities, and finally, in the section of suggested variables for ranking improvement, 2 main themes of index weighting and thematic ranking were obtained.
Higher Education Letter, 2008
Higher Education Letter, 2008
Higher Education Letter, 2008
Higher Education Letter, 2008
Higher Education Letter, 2008
Higher Education Letter, 2008
Uploads
Papers by Higher Education Letter
Methods: In the present study, new educational technologies have been divided into two dimensions of new educational methods and tools and have been studied. The statistical population of this study included all faculty members of the Faculty of Humanities and Management and Economics of Tarbiat Modares University. The present study is descriptive in terms of data collection method in the qualitative part of the research and descriptive in the quantitative part; Accordingly, a standard questionnaire was prepared to collect data from experts and conducted in a structured interview. Finally, after reaching theoretical saturation in the answers, twenty-eight interviews were used to analyze the data. SPSS software was used to describe the data and comparative analysis was used to prioritize the components. PSS software was used to describe the data and comparative-analogical analysis was used to prioritize the components.
Results: According to the research results, in prioritizing new educational technologies, finally, metacognitive, hybrid, multimedia, inverse, contingent, tris and film tools of strip slide, internet, e-book and library, smart board and computer, Respectively, obtained the highest score and were given priority.
Conclusion: In general, it can be said that the use of selected methods, which are generally active methods among learners, will lead to deeper and more sustainable learning, and the use of selected smart and electronic tools are essential for the growth of education in this university.
Methods: The research method was descriptive correlational and the statistical population included all 2289 technical and engineering students of Urmia University in the academic year of 2019-2020. The sample size was determined by stratified proportional random sampling method using Morgan table of 328 people from the Faculty of Engineering.
The research instrument was Service Quality Questionnaire based on EDUQUAL and SERQUAL models and its validity was confirmed by content validity method. The reliability of the questionnaire was also calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.89.
Results: The results related to the research hypotheses indicated that there is a negative gap in all aspects of the quality of educational services. The results of Friedman test also showed that the largest gap is related to the dimension of physical facilities and the lowest gap is related to the dimension of empathy. Furthermore, the results showed that in terms of gender and educational level, there is no difference between the two existing and desirable conditions of the quality of education services.
Conclusion: Based on the obtained results, it is suggested to use the opinions of technical and engineering students in relation to decisions related to university services.
Methods: The research population were 3,000 people of the postgraduate students of Bu Ali Sina University in the academic year of 2019 2020, which were selected by proportional stratified sampling method and based on Morgan table, a sample of three hundred and forty-one people was selected. The research method is quantitative, descriptive and in type of correlational studies. The research instruments were the Islamian Effective Teaching Questionnaire (2014) and the Salehi Research Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (2011). The reliability and validity of the instrument were determined through Cronbach's alpha and confirmatory factor analysis. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (center and dispersion indices) and inferential statistics (focal correlation and multiple linear regression) using SPSS 25 software.
Results: Findings indicate that the dimensions of effective teaching of professors have a positive and significant focal correlation in alpha 0.01 to 0.7 with the dimensions of students 'research self-efficacy.
Conclusion: The results showed that the dimensions of effective teaching of professors can explain %294 of the variance of students' self-efficacy.
Methods: This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive correlational in terms of method. The statistical population consists of students of Yazd University who were selected based on the calculated sample size of three hundred and eighty-five people through the available sampling method. In order to collect data, the researcher made questionnaire of professional ethics and the standard questionnaire of academic attitudes were used, that their validity was confirmed by content validity and construct validity, and their reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability. Data analysis was performed by one-way t-test in SPSS and structural equation modeling using Amos software.
Results: The results showed that the level of professional ethics of faculty members is above average. Among the dimensions of professional ethics, the lowest average was related to the observance of justice, which is below average, but it also had the highest average after the issue of communication with the student. Testing the hypotheses showed that among the dimensions of professional ethics, observing justice has the greatest effect on students ‘academic motivation, while the effect of observing rules and regulations on students' motivation was not confirmed.
Conclusion: Adherence to professional ethics by faculty members can be an important factor in increasing students' academic motivation. Therefore, faculty members should pay attention to maintaining and promoting professional ethics.
Methods: The present study in terms of purpose is applied with a qualitative approach. Research data have been collected using inductive content analysis of knowledge commercialization frameworks and holding two Delphi panel courses by knowledge commercialization experts based on ambidexterity. participants included twenty-eight person of university experts, specialists and people working in growth centers in Mazandaran province in the academic year of 2019-2020, who were selected by snowball method until reaching theoretical saturation. Data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using semantic unit analysis and Delphi technique.
Results: According to the findings, dimensions, components and indicators of knowledge commercialization based on organizational ambidexterity in the form of four dimensions including commercialization of knowledge based on structural ambidexterity, managerial ambidexterity, contextual ambidexterity and innovative ambidexterity, and ten components of spatial separation, parallel structures, support of managers, empowerment actions of manager, motivational actions of the manager, Opportunistic actions of the manager, institutional, individual, exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation and eighty-three indicators were identified.
Conclusion: Based on the research results, all dimensions, components and indicators were approved.
Methods: The research is applied in terms of purpose and has been implemented with a qualitative perspective. One hundred and two international students studying in Iran participated in this study and answered open-ended and closed-ended questions. Content analysis method was conducted to analyze the data.
Results: The findings of the study, based on coding and categorization, showed that the most important concerns of international students in the corona crisis can be classified into four categories: educational, research, economic, and family personal. In addition, the expectations of the respondents from the university were classified into three categories: communication-information, education, and support.
Conclusion: The Corona era, along with all the concerns, provides a valuable opportunity to identify and meet the expectations of international students and increase their satisfaction, to attract more international students in the post-Corona era. Accordingly, the findings of this study are useful and practical for universities that seek to attract more international students.
Methods: This research in terms of applied purpose and implementation is a descriptive correlation study based on the structural equation model. The statistical population included all faculty members of public universities in Zahedan, 666 people, whose sample size was estimated to be 120 people based on Cochran's formula by stratified random sampling.
Intelligent leadership and educational performance questionnaires (designed by the Office of Supervision and Evaluation of Universities) were used to collect research data.
Content validity was confirmed by experts, structural validity was calculated through factor analysis, and reliability was also calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient equal to 0.97 and 0.93. SPSS23 and Smart PLS statistical software were used to analyze the data.
Results: According to the research findings, intelligent leadership with a path coefficient (0.33) affects educational performance and the component of collective leadership with a path coefficient (0.38) has the greatest impact on the educational performance of faculty members.
Conclusion: By fitting the conceptual model of the research, it was assumed that intelligent leadership as a latent variable directly effects on educational performance of faculty members. Therefore, a great care must be taken in determining academic leadership styles because the methods that influence the behavior of faculty members are quite different from those found in traditional business companies.
Methodology: This research is a qualitative research based on the method of Colaizzi’s descriptive phenomenology. The study population consisted of faculty members of Kurdistan University in the academic year 2018-2019. Using a purposive sampling method, out of 348 faculty members of Kurdistan University, 15 professors from different faculties answered the research questions through semi-structured interviews. Validity method was used to measure validity. The 397 minutes of recorded interviews were analyzed thematically after being implemented on paper.
Results: In the most important challenges of ranking system, 5 main themes of educational quantification, research quantification, inappropriate ranking, central policy and credits, in the most important challenges solutions 3 main themes of peer comparisons, fairness and attention. The strings were obtained for ranking outcomes, 3 main themes of competitiveness, promotion of position and attraction of facilities, and finally, in the section of suggested variables for ranking improvement, 2 main themes of index weighting and thematic ranking were obtained.
Methods: In the present study, new educational technologies have been divided into two dimensions of new educational methods and tools and have been studied. The statistical population of this study included all faculty members of the Faculty of Humanities and Management and Economics of Tarbiat Modares University. The present study is descriptive in terms of data collection method in the qualitative part of the research and descriptive in the quantitative part; Accordingly, a standard questionnaire was prepared to collect data from experts and conducted in a structured interview. Finally, after reaching theoretical saturation in the answers, twenty-eight interviews were used to analyze the data. SPSS software was used to describe the data and comparative analysis was used to prioritize the components. PSS software was used to describe the data and comparative-analogical analysis was used to prioritize the components.
Results: According to the research results, in prioritizing new educational technologies, finally, metacognitive, hybrid, multimedia, inverse, contingent, tris and film tools of strip slide, internet, e-book and library, smart board and computer, Respectively, obtained the highest score and were given priority.
Conclusion: In general, it can be said that the use of selected methods, which are generally active methods among learners, will lead to deeper and more sustainable learning, and the use of selected smart and electronic tools are essential for the growth of education in this university.
Methods: The research method was descriptive correlational and the statistical population included all 2289 technical and engineering students of Urmia University in the academic year of 2019-2020. The sample size was determined by stratified proportional random sampling method using Morgan table of 328 people from the Faculty of Engineering.
The research instrument was Service Quality Questionnaire based on EDUQUAL and SERQUAL models and its validity was confirmed by content validity method. The reliability of the questionnaire was also calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.89.
Results: The results related to the research hypotheses indicated that there is a negative gap in all aspects of the quality of educational services. The results of Friedman test also showed that the largest gap is related to the dimension of physical facilities and the lowest gap is related to the dimension of empathy. Furthermore, the results showed that in terms of gender and educational level, there is no difference between the two existing and desirable conditions of the quality of education services.
Conclusion: Based on the obtained results, it is suggested to use the opinions of technical and engineering students in relation to decisions related to university services.
Methods: The research population were 3,000 people of the postgraduate students of Bu Ali Sina University in the academic year of 2019 2020, which were selected by proportional stratified sampling method and based on Morgan table, a sample of three hundred and forty-one people was selected. The research method is quantitative, descriptive and in type of correlational studies. The research instruments were the Islamian Effective Teaching Questionnaire (2014) and the Salehi Research Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (2011). The reliability and validity of the instrument were determined through Cronbach's alpha and confirmatory factor analysis. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (center and dispersion indices) and inferential statistics (focal correlation and multiple linear regression) using SPSS 25 software.
Results: Findings indicate that the dimensions of effective teaching of professors have a positive and significant focal correlation in alpha 0.01 to 0.7 with the dimensions of students 'research self-efficacy.
Conclusion: The results showed that the dimensions of effective teaching of professors can explain %294 of the variance of students' self-efficacy.
Methods: This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive correlational in terms of method. The statistical population consists of students of Yazd University who were selected based on the calculated sample size of three hundred and eighty-five people through the available sampling method. In order to collect data, the researcher made questionnaire of professional ethics and the standard questionnaire of academic attitudes were used, that their validity was confirmed by content validity and construct validity, and their reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability. Data analysis was performed by one-way t-test in SPSS and structural equation modeling using Amos software.
Results: The results showed that the level of professional ethics of faculty members is above average. Among the dimensions of professional ethics, the lowest average was related to the observance of justice, which is below average, but it also had the highest average after the issue of communication with the student. Testing the hypotheses showed that among the dimensions of professional ethics, observing justice has the greatest effect on students ‘academic motivation, while the effect of observing rules and regulations on students' motivation was not confirmed.
Conclusion: Adherence to professional ethics by faculty members can be an important factor in increasing students' academic motivation. Therefore, faculty members should pay attention to maintaining and promoting professional ethics.
Methods: The present study in terms of purpose is applied with a qualitative approach. Research data have been collected using inductive content analysis of knowledge commercialization frameworks and holding two Delphi panel courses by knowledge commercialization experts based on ambidexterity. participants included twenty-eight person of university experts, specialists and people working in growth centers in Mazandaran province in the academic year of 2019-2020, who were selected by snowball method until reaching theoretical saturation. Data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using semantic unit analysis and Delphi technique.
Results: According to the findings, dimensions, components and indicators of knowledge commercialization based on organizational ambidexterity in the form of four dimensions including commercialization of knowledge based on structural ambidexterity, managerial ambidexterity, contextual ambidexterity and innovative ambidexterity, and ten components of spatial separation, parallel structures, support of managers, empowerment actions of manager, motivational actions of the manager, Opportunistic actions of the manager, institutional, individual, exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation and eighty-three indicators were identified.
Conclusion: Based on the research results, all dimensions, components and indicators were approved.
Methods: The research is applied in terms of purpose and has been implemented with a qualitative perspective. One hundred and two international students studying in Iran participated in this study and answered open-ended and closed-ended questions. Content analysis method was conducted to analyze the data.
Results: The findings of the study, based on coding and categorization, showed that the most important concerns of international students in the corona crisis can be classified into four categories: educational, research, economic, and family personal. In addition, the expectations of the respondents from the university were classified into three categories: communication-information, education, and support.
Conclusion: The Corona era, along with all the concerns, provides a valuable opportunity to identify and meet the expectations of international students and increase their satisfaction, to attract more international students in the post-Corona era. Accordingly, the findings of this study are useful and practical for universities that seek to attract more international students.
Methods: This research in terms of applied purpose and implementation is a descriptive correlation study based on the structural equation model. The statistical population included all faculty members of public universities in Zahedan, 666 people, whose sample size was estimated to be 120 people based on Cochran's formula by stratified random sampling.
Intelligent leadership and educational performance questionnaires (designed by the Office of Supervision and Evaluation of Universities) were used to collect research data.
Content validity was confirmed by experts, structural validity was calculated through factor analysis, and reliability was also calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient equal to 0.97 and 0.93. SPSS23 and Smart PLS statistical software were used to analyze the data.
Results: According to the research findings, intelligent leadership with a path coefficient (0.33) affects educational performance and the component of collective leadership with a path coefficient (0.38) has the greatest impact on the educational performance of faculty members.
Conclusion: By fitting the conceptual model of the research, it was assumed that intelligent leadership as a latent variable directly effects on educational performance of faculty members. Therefore, a great care must be taken in determining academic leadership styles because the methods that influence the behavior of faculty members are quite different from those found in traditional business companies.
Methodology: This research is a qualitative research based on the method of Colaizzi’s descriptive phenomenology. The study population consisted of faculty members of Kurdistan University in the academic year 2018-2019. Using a purposive sampling method, out of 348 faculty members of Kurdistan University, 15 professors from different faculties answered the research questions through semi-structured interviews. Validity method was used to measure validity. The 397 minutes of recorded interviews were analyzed thematically after being implemented on paper.
Results: In the most important challenges of ranking system, 5 main themes of educational quantification, research quantification, inappropriate ranking, central policy and credits, in the most important challenges solutions 3 main themes of peer comparisons, fairness and attention. The strings were obtained for ranking outcomes, 3 main themes of competitiveness, promotion of position and attraction of facilities, and finally, in the section of suggested variables for ranking improvement, 2 main themes of index weighting and thematic ranking were obtained.