Abbas Abbaspour; mohammad mojtabazadeh
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The present study was conducted to design and validate a model for accreditation and quality assurance of Iranian higher education.This study was performed using a mixed method of explorative plan-tool development model. First, in qualitative part of this study, questionnaire consisted of 25 factors ...
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The present study was conducted to design and validate a model for accreditation and quality assurance of Iranian higher education.This study was performed using a mixed method of explorative plan-tool development model. First, in qualitative part of this study, questionnaire consisted of 25 factors and 157 Criteria were designed by using the method of Grounded Theory and interview with 36 experts. For the validity of qualitative findings, were used from the criteria of credibility, confirmability, dependability and transferability. Then, in the quantitative section, designed questionnaires were conducted on 84 members of Iranian experts with high education. Based on the received feedback, the questionnaires were revised, then the final and modified version was put in the hands of 293 experts in different cities of Iran. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and its reliability was calculated by Cronbach's alpha which was equal to (0.982). Non-probability purposive sampling method was used in the qualitative part of the study whereas random classified sampling method was applied in the quantitative part. In addition, analysis of structural equation modeling was used for testing mentioned scale. By doing first-order confirmatory factor analysis, mentioned model were modified to 22 factors and 150 Criteria. Results of second-order confirmatory factor analysis, also showed that 22 extracted components are sufficient factor leading to prediction model related to accreditation and quality assurance of high education systems in Iran. In addition, goodness of fit indices such as, (CMIN/DF) which is equal to 1.924, (RMSEA) = 0.39, (GFI) equal= 0.976, (AGFI) = 0.939, (CFI) = 0.928, (NNFI) = 0.935, (TLI) = 1.000, (IFI) = 0.928 and (RFI) = 0925 Conclusion: The results of statistical tests displayed that the designed model enjoys very favorable fitness for the accreditation and quality assurance of high education system in universities of Iran.
ahmad keykha
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Education systems (public and higher) play a key role in the comprehensive development of diverse ecosystems, but in recent decades, with increasing turbulence and global financial crises, governments have lacked funding to provide education. Higher education budget deficits have become increasingly ...
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Education systems (public and higher) play a key role in the comprehensive development of diverse ecosystems, but in recent decades, with increasing turbulence and global financial crises, governments have lacked funding to provide education. Higher education budget deficits have become increasingly important. This has made it imperative to pay more attention to evaluating the performance of educational units to improve their financial resources to increase their efficiency and effectiveness. Therefore, using this qualitative method, in particular, the cross-cutting strategy seeks to answer two questions: 1) What are the categories and concepts of content analysis and content analysis strategy with the educational system? Can these concepts and categories be presented to improve the status of the education system? Succeeded. In the first question, for the first question, there were five sub-categories: governance, management-executive, welfare, consequence, educational system. In the second question, corresponding to each of these categories, the status of the educational system was criticized and then the policies proposed.
mohammad mojtabazadeh
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This study aimed to identify factors affecting the model of accreditation and quality assurance of higher education in Iran. the study was conducted using qualitative research through grounded theory. the study population had higher education experts, which 36 persons by purposive sampling for semi-structured ...
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This study aimed to identify factors affecting the model of accreditation and quality assurance of higher education in Iran. the study was conducted using qualitative research through grounded theory. the study population had higher education experts, which 36 persons by purposive sampling for semi-structured interview were selected. in addition to interview, 3 other sources were used to collect data, which are, observing, taking notes and documents. for this purpose, data obtained from interviews, observations, notes and documents were converted into text data. after that, we act the first to open coding, then, to have axial and selective action. in axial coding stage, 25 core categories were determined. in selective coding stage, all major categories and core categories in terms of condition, interactive / process and outcome characteristics was classified. in the end, category of quality discourse, fear and hope, as the most original and the most ultimate core category select and according to its features were developed. then, related made other categories in the form of a paradigm model with the this category.
sayed ahmad hashemi
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of organizational climate on organizational silence in Lamerd Islamic Azad University. This research is applied in terms of target type and in terms of data collection method is descriptive-correlation. The statistical population of this research ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of organizational climate on organizational silence in Lamerd Islamic Azad University. This research is applied in terms of target type and in terms of data collection method is descriptive-correlation. The statistical population of this research consisted of 84 professors of Islamic Azad University of Lamerd in the academic year 1396/1395. A census method was used to select the sample and each 84 faculty members of the Islamic Azad University of Lamard were selected. The instrument for collecting data in this study was the organizational climate questionnaire based on Halpin and Kraft (1963) and Organizational Silence Questionnaire (KOLA and BORDAS, 2005). The content validity and appearance of the questionnaires were confirmed by the experts and their reliability, which was the result of a two week trial of 30, was estimated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, which was 0.78 for the organizational climate questionnaire and The organizational silence questionnaire was 0.83. To analyze the data, regression analysis was used at a significant level of 0.05. The results show that by upgrading one unit of organizational climate, 0.990 unit of standard deviation of organizational silence will increase, resulting in a positive relationship. Also, the results showed that the dimensions of organizational climate of the organizational climate of command, limitation, pretending to work, unwillingness and distancing have a significant effect on organizational silence in Lamard Islamic Azad University.
mohammad mojtabazadeh
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In this paper based on the grounded theory, from the perspective of higher education actors we paid to recognized of conditional factors, criteria and indicators (causal, contextual and intermediary ) accreditation. this study, by adopting social interpretivism, emphasize that people outside the university, ...
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In this paper based on the grounded theory, from the perspective of higher education actors we paid to recognized of conditional factors, criteria and indicators (causal, contextual and intermediary ) accreditation. this study, by adopting social interpretivism, emphasize that people outside the university, Can not be known beforehand components of accreditation and understand it. Because, the actors in higher education are that your scientific community environment create and interpret it as they want. accordingly, Any assumption about the accreditation system, can not express the mind and understanding academic community actors. in other words, in this research we have been looking for that actors higher education how to see conditional factors, criteria and indicators (causal, contextual and intermediary ) accreditation And what had interpretation and understanding of it. the data of this study were obtained from four sources, which include, interviews, observations, notes and documents. therefore, data obtained from interviews, observations, notes and documents were converted into text data. after that, in order to categorize the great mass of the collected data, paid to categorization of data. we act first, open coding, then, axial and selective coding. On this basis, in 691 the indicator, 98 criteria and 11 factor were determined in accordance with native features of Iran's higher education system.
HASAN AHMADI; adel zahed babaelan; seyyed mohammad seyyed kalan
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The aim of the current research was to identify causes of organizational silence among the staff of the University of Mohaghegh Ardabil. To achieve the aim, case study was used which first qualitative phase was conducted and after that quantitative data was collected and analyzed. The research population ...
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The aim of the current research was to identify causes of organizational silence among the staff of the University of Mohaghegh Ardabil. To achieve the aim, case study was used which first qualitative phase was conducted and after that quantitative data was collected and analyzed. The research population was 354 faculty members of mohaghegh university which 11 members of them were studied through cluster sampling in the qualitative phase and 153 members of them were selected via cluster sampling method. to collect qualitative data, unstructured interview was conducted which validated based on triangulation and participant feedback. On the other hand, the tool for quantitative phase was researcher- designed questionnaire which reliability was 0/92. Inductive content analysis through open coding was applied for analyzing qualitative data and software pls were used for quantitative data. The results showed that that organizational factors such as organizational structure, culture and negative reaction on the part of management and leadership styles and personal factors such as fear of job loss, type of personality, and lack of employee commitment are the reasons that lead to silence people in organizations . Findings also showed the negative reaction from staff managers have the greatest impact on organizational silence.
mohammad sharafi
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Aims: This study was an attempt to examine the employment status of the graduates . The authors tried to determine to what extent the graduates were employed in organizations and companies that were related to their field of study and to what extent the university prepared the graduates for the work ...
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Aims: This study was an attempt to examine the employment status of the graduates . The authors tried to determine to what extent the graduates were employed in organizations and companies that were related to their field of study and to what extent the university prepared the graduates for the work market. In addition, The participants of the study consisted of three groups of graduates between the years 2004 and 2008. Methods: The research method used in this research is descriptive and survey-based approach. The method used for sampling was accessible method. Data was collected through a questionnaire and analysed by the descriptive methods.Results:The main results were: 1) the employment rate of graduates while studying in the master level was 22.5 percent, and after graduation this rates reached 80 percent, and 2) most of the graduates worked in the public sector especially in higher education and educational training system. Additionally, the rate of employment in the industrial sector has increased in recent years. Conclusion: The results reveal that the duration between graduation and employment ranged from 3 months to 1 year. Eventually, the suggestion of graduates for the optimal preparing of students for the work market is offered.
Ehsan Parvin; Saeed Ghiasi Nodoushan; Sharare Mohammadi
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Education is the most effective mechanism for dealing with one of the biggest challenges of this century, i.e., sustainable development. Sustainable development needs a holistic human being with systemic thinking ...
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Education is the most effective mechanism for dealing with one of the biggest challenges of this century, i.e., sustainable development. Sustainable development needs a holistic human being with systemic thinking and interdisciplinary and intra-disciplinary vision who is informed, creative and participatory. Production of such qualified human resources needs high quality elements and factors of the educational system (input, process, output, and outcome) in line with sustainable development. Higher education and expert human resources play a key role in sustainable development of any societies. Universities, as places for study and research, should strive for sustainable development. Higher education should acquire the best way to exploit limited resources and facilities. In this article, developing a model for assuring the quality of higher education system in order to reach sustainable development based on systems approach is discussed. To reach sustainable development, we should provide coordination and interaction among the parts of development. A descriptive-analytic method, similar to library studies, is used in this article.