فصلنامه مطالعات اندازه گیری و ارزشیابی آموزشی
پیاپی 5 (بهار 1393)

The present study is aimed at career anchors of faculty members of University of Urmia and its relationship with organizational commitment. This is a descriptive correlation study. The sample was 86 faculty members randomly selected according to the faculty. Two questionnaires on career anchors and organizational commitment were used for data collection.. The data was analyzed making use of MANOVA and Regression. The results showed that: 1-University faculty members have all aspects of career anchor. 2There is a positive significant relationship between all aspects of career anchor satisfaction and organizational commitment components. 3-general managerial competence, Service and dedication, pure challenges and Security / stability are significant predictors of organizational commitment (identification, affiliation and exchange).

The main purpose of this research is to identify the challenges related to student learning evaluation in Iranian higher education system. The research population in qualitative section was 12 faculty members from Bu Ali- Sina University who were selected based on criteria oriented purposeful sampling. In quantitative section, 7309 graduate students were research population that sampling was done based on ratio randomly categorizing method. Semi structure interview was used for data gathering from faculty members and data was analyzed based on categorizing method and for students a researcher made questioner was used and data analyzed by factor analysis and one way variance analysis. Findings of this research showed six factors such as: unfamiliarity of faculty with evaluation goals, structural hindrances, lack of grounds for implementing formative evaluation, lack of attention to negative effects of learning evaluation method, lack of attention to acquiring higher skills and neglecting some of learning domains by evaluation methods. Six identified factors are indicating 41/36 percent of total variance. As a result, evaluation as part of learning process is faced with many challenges in Iranian higher education system.

Higher education is one of the paths of changing social class, finding job, marriage and other social life improvement in Iran. To enter to Iranian universities and colleges, all candidates must sit in the nation-wide exam. The aim of this paper is to investigate candidate’s ranks and their socio- economic status. The methodology and aim of this research is Explanation and secondary analysis respectively. The statistical population eligible to choose major, in the year 2010, has been 1099193 applicants which organized by National Organization for Educational Testing (NOET). The sampling method is cluster sampling with the sample size of 500 applicants in three clusters high, medium and low ranks. For analyzing data, descriptive and inference statistics (T - tast, F - test, x2) were used by SPSS software. The results show: 1) Socio- economic status has positive effects on educational performance. 2) The applicants who belong to high socio-economic status had better ranks. 3) The applicants who live in developed areas, small family number, high income and high parent’s education had better ranks in nation-wide exam.

The purpose of this research is to investigate managers’, experts’ and student's viewpoints towards native-screening (native selection) for new admission of Universities Students by descriptive method. The statistical population consisted of managers, experts in universities and students of Ferdowsi University. Questionnaire was used for measuring their viewpoints. The sampling methods for 297 managers and 170 experts in 6 universities were respectively Census and targeted. The 715 students were selected based on Morgan table. The reliability of manager and student questionnaires by Cronbach's Alpha is respectively 0/89 and 0/80. So, Five-degree Likert scale was used in order to recognize the viewpoint of students about the new plan. The collected data were analyzed by univariate Chi-Square, Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney U-test. The results from viewpoints of students, managers and experts revealed that they believed this plan is successful in some aspects and unsuccessful in some aspects. The students were more agreed on the goals of plan in emotional, economic and cultural dimensions than instruction. Meanwhile, the experts of Sistan and Baluchistan, Mashhad Ferdowsi and Shiraz universities were less satisfied in comparison with experts of Kharazmi, Isfahan University of Technology and Bu-Ali Sina Hamedan for carrying out the plan.

Over the past two decades, higher education has faced with the challenges and quality assurance is the first priority in management of higher education. Accordingly, several countries have increased efforts using various methods of evaluation and quality assurance to try for accreditation of input, process, output and audit of mechanisms, processes and structures in higher education. In this regard, accreditation processes (internal and external evaluation) have been conducted at universities of Iran but unfortunately nothing has been done about the audit. Therefore, this study is sought to use audit world Literature and consensus in the academic community of Iran to design quality audit model in the university system. The results show that quality management of teaching - learning, quality management of research, mission, goals& institutional management, quality management of interaction with society (social participation), quality management of human resources, quality management of support services, quality management of assessment and quality assurance system are in order of importance. So, the audit pattern has been designed in two dimensions of criteria and process. In addition, the recommendations of the action to effectively implement the audit in Iranian universities are provided.

Research can be considered as a systematic search for the events and phenomenon to discover certain facts and to achieve a range of new materials. Research process and its management are important issues at the levels of individual, group and organization; particularly when academic research is implied. It is clear that teaching, research, cultural infrastructures, the provision of effective services and sustainable development all are the major consequences of an effective university. Current exploratory study aims to investigate and to criticize the status of research management in three departments of University of Tehran including Management, Economics, and Psychology in terms of the tendency to trust or control of the researchers and research process by the management using interview and AHP techniques. Results indicated managers and experts believed that research management in the selected departments has a tendency to high trust and low control. Furthermore, in the departments, it is preferred that the higher level of trust rather than control should be employed. A measure of trust was known as the academic rank of the researcher. It means that the higher academic rank, the higher trust can be made.

This study is aimed at investigating the effectiveness of the in-service education on performance of employees of NOET (during the years 2003 to 2011). Population study included 503 staff members (formal and informal). The sampling method (randomly) selected 244 individuals from the personnel. The results revealed that the training courses led to increase discipline skills among staff in coordination with the Organization staff to increase job satisfaction and improved morale among employees, increase employee job satisfaction and moral improvement, reduce staff working events, update knowledge among employees manpower, help increasing organizational change, increase working efficiency which can be increased to strengthen the spirit of empathy among staff of NOET.