فصلنامه مطالعات اندازه گیری و ارزشیابی آموزشی
پیاپی 3 (پاییز 1392)

This research is intended to validate the goal orientations scale to measure the progress of students with an emphasis on religious orientation. Research population is Undergraduate students in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Participants included 315 undergraduate students from different disciplines. Midgly and et al scale of achievement goals and religious goal orientation subscales were used for gathering data. Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient, confirmatory factor analysis and Pearson's correlation coefficient were used for analyzing data. Reliability of the overall scale and subscales mastery achievement goals, performance approach, and performance avoidance using Cronbach's alpha respectively (0/89, 0/89, 0/82, 0/79 and 0/92) was calculated as the amount was satisfactory. Purposed Factor Structure was fitted to data and explained 62/05 variance in student achievement goals and the highest variance was explained by religious orientation. The results showed that the performance-approach, performance-avoidance orientation and religious orientation are higher in female students compared to their male counterparts.

Given the importance of curricula quality, its continuous evaluation in the university system as one of the inputs is important. So today, curriculum evaluation is one of the main components of systems of evaluation and accreditation at World universities that is based on internal evaluation process. Ten years of experience in internal evaluation of academic departments of Iranian universities reveal that this approach can play an important role in the assessment of curricula quality. So alongside introducing the concept and practical process of internal evaluation in higher education, this paper attempts to present the meta-analysis of 69 reports of human science departments’ internal evaluation and based on the results, recommendations are presented for improvement of curriculum quality at universities.

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the amount of collaboration of Kurdistan University's academic departments in doing research and scientific publications in doing researches and scientific compilation; Also the study of its relationship with the factors such as type and the degree of publication and faculty. After the study of professor's publications of Kurdistan University and the calculation of collaboration coefficient in 1387 (Hejri) and 2008 (AD) it is seen that the most collaboration coefficient goes to the published articles in journals with ISI grade and the least of it goes to the published articles in journals without the scientific grade. Also by the increase of collaboration coefficient in groups, the number of published articles by the colleagues of department is increased too. The collaboration coefficient in groups of Irrigation, Animal Sciences and Biology is the most amounts and in groups of Architecture, Geography and Persian Literature is the least one. Also the Faculty of Agriculture has the most collaboration coefficient and the Faculty of Literature has the least one.

Due to the growth of E- learning in curriculum of higher­ education institutions, the measurement of quality of E- learning content is an important issue. The purpose of this study was to evaluate of the quality of the electronic content in curriculum of Mashhad University of medical sciences. in the present descriptive-sectional study, the survey population included all of Specialists in E- content production process of sciences) According to the census) related documents with E- content production and students in E-learning of Mashhad University of medical sciences that recent population, 250 students were selected by the method of stratified sampling In order to gather data were used of, Check lists from observations and interviews for Assessment of performance levels in electronic content production process, The performance of roles and responsibilities in content production process and measurement Survey Assessment of E- content production stages Quality that made by the researcher. The results indicated a relatively favorable situation in performance levels of E- content production stages, roles and responsibilities of persons and also the quality of E- learning courses content of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences.

The main purpose of the present research was to study and analyze the current situation of educational performance evaluation among academic members of Allameh Tabataba’i University. The required data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire. To do so, 200 academic members were randomly selected out of 450 in 2011-2012 Academic Years. Finally the data of 125 completed questionnaires were analyzed. The results showed that the current mechanism of academic member's performance evaluation is not sufficient. Also, more than 56 percent of them believed that the current mechanism should be improved. Finally, some suggestions are offered to improve the evaluation methods.

In the new approach of educational management system to improve the productivity without increasing costs, organizational intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior have been considered as two important factors. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between these two factors among faculty members of the Shahrekord University and Islamic Azad University of Shahrekord. The components of organizational citizenship behavior are: sportsmanship, altruism, conscientious, courtesy and civic virtue, and organizational intelligence include: strategic vision, shared fate, appetite for change, alignment and congruence, performance pressure, knowledge deployment and spirit. Results showed a significant correlation between organizational intelligence with altruism, courtesy and civic virtue while there were no correlation between organizational intelligence and sportsmanship or conscientious. Each enhancement unit of spirit scale caused 0.31 unit enhancement in organizational citizenship behavior. So, in general, the spirit of selected Universities is the main determinant factor of organizational citizenship behavior in faculty members.

Since the necessity of design and implementation the systematic research about appropriate and comprehensive system for quality evaluation in higher education (QEHE), that is in accordance with national and international knowledge and experience, and in order to determine the method, implementation process, evaluation criteria, managerial structure of this system and its features, the current research was aimed to examine national and international experiences, as well as design the native approach of the system of QEHE, and also develop the framework of the national organization for quality evaluation in higher evaluation (NOQEHE). For the typology of the world experiences and modeling of them, the comparative study and for critical study and analytical explanation of the national activities and experiences, the documentary study have been used. In the section of research finding, the proposed structures for the NOQEHE have been presented.