فصلنامه مطالعات اندازه گیری و ارزشیابی آموزشی
پیاپی 13 (بهار 1395)

The present paper aims at evaluating 6th grade Hedyed Assemani from Qazvin teachers’ viewpoints. In doing so, we made a comparison between the status quo and the ideal situation. To gather data, a researcher-made questionnaire with confirmed content validity way used. Using Cronbach alpha, the reliability was calculated as 0.804.This study was applied in terms of aim and descriptive-survey in terms of data gathering. Target population consists of all Qazvin 6th grade teachers (96) who were included in the study. According to the results, all aspects of Hedyeh Assemani curriculum (i.e. preparation, behavioral and evaluation) except for cognitive and planned teaching method was reported significantly lower than the mean. Therefore, curriculum experts and practitioners can make use of these results to take away the weakness of the curriculum.

This research was conducted with the aim of evaluating electronic software quality applied at Allameh Tabataba’i university’s libraries (Pars Azarakhsh software) based on ISO 9126. The survey method was used in this research. The statistic population included all employees and managers of Allameh Tabatabaei university’s libraries were 35 people that 32 employees and managers of Psychology & Educational Sciences, Law and Political Sciences, Literature and Foreign languages colleges and free professional training center were selected by Morgan table and through Cluster sampling. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire that its validity was confirmed by experts and professors and its reliability was calculated by Cronbach's Alfa that its value was 0.72. ​​Descriptive statistic manners (Frequency, Mean and Standard Deviation) and inferential statistic manner (One-sample T test) were used for data analysis. At the end of the research, this achieved result was that there is a straight and significant relationship between Pars Azarakhsh software quality with all six components of ISO 9126 quality evaluation model (maintainability, portability, functionality, reliability, usability and efficiency) and Pars Azarakhsh software is compatible with all six components of ISO 9126.

Evaluation of the performance of faculty members using information from various sources to improve the quality of universities and higher education institutions has recently been considered. The most common form of internal evaluation has been the use of the student's perspectives for evaluating faculty performance. Although the quality evaluation of the university is based on the performance of faculty members with a focus on teaching and learning in classroom and student's perspectives, the faculty members and educational administrators could comment more comprehensive data set available to higher education planners. The aim of this study was to study the views of faculty members about their educational performance evaluation components to improve academic quality. The research approach was qualitative and its strategy was based on the Grounded Theory method. Method of sampling was theoretical and it was completed through theoretical saturation criterion. 16 faculty members participated in this research from different departments at University of Kurdistan. According to findings, the evaluation strategies of faculty members’ performance in order to improve academic quality outlined in three categories: 1) integrity and objectivity, 2) administration and support, and 3) improvement and professional development.

Already, many researchers have attempted to evaluate the rate of return of schooling in worldwide. This paper was also written in this area and investigated two main issues: first, does schooling return to individuals? And second, is there a discrepancy between the returns of schooling by gender? Findings of other authors in estimating and analyzing the return of schooling have not considered the gender differentiation. This paper used the Mincerian earnings equation and 1294 data in Tehran in order to estimate the rate of return of schooling. Results of regression analysis show that schooling has a positive and statistically significant effect on earnings of both men and women but the rate of return for women is greater than that of men about 4 to 5 percent. However, Granger causality test suggests that only in the case of women, the earning affects level of schooling but not vice versa while in the case of men, the opposite is true.

Recently, due to broad global and domestic changes, higher education system in Iran has tried to establish and promote e-learning. Therefore, identifying key factors and various aspects of e-learning environment is essential to implement this type of education efficiently. Literature review shows prominence to the importance of interaction compared to other factors in a way that it has been referred to in most views related to the quality and efficiency of e-learning. The aim of this study is to analyze the state of student-teacher interaction in Iran's electronic higher education system. The study population consisted of all teachers and students of higher education electronic institutions of Iran in the academic year 2014-2015 among which 620 were selected as the sample using the snowball sampling method. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data. The research method is survey, in terms of data collection, and descriptive in terms of nature. The questionnaire reliability was confirmed by both Cronbach's alpha and internal correlation coefficients using the Amos software and structural equation modeling.The results suggest that the state of student-teacher interaction in in Iran's electronic higher education system is significantly unfavorable. Moreover, the analytical result of the state of student-teacher interaction showed a significant difference in various subgroups in terms of university and school group variables, but there was no significant difference among subgroups in terms of gender variable.

For responding to how integration of ICT in educational and research activities for improvement of higher education quality based on improving faculty members performance, a study with the purpose of determination of the role of ICT usage on educational and research performance of faculty members was conducted. Investigation of the role of individual and academic characteristics of faculty members in extent of ICT usage at Tabriz public universities was other goal of this study. In this applied and descriptive study, statistical population was faculty members of Tabriz, Shahid Madani and Tabriz Payam-e-Noor Universities in total 1092 people. With stratified random sampling 195 questionnaires were gathered. For data gathering three questionnaires are used with Cronbach's alpha for reliability: the extent of ICT usage (0.90), educational (0.92) and research performance of faculty members (0.74). Results showed that the extent of ICT usage are lower than average and ICT usage is predictor of educational and research performance. In addition the extent of faculty members, ICT usage is significantly different bases of academic disciplines, academic degree, age and teaching experience of instructors.

The aim of this study was to validate performance management model of teaching staff at Kabul University, and correlation method was used. The questionnaire was used to collect data and for confidentiality of validity and reliability. The discussion was done with three interviewees and three lecturers’ assistant and two Ph.D. students in educational management. Their opinions and suggestions were considered to finalize the items of the questionnaire. The instrument’s stability with the use of Cronbach Alpha was 0.94. The data were analyzed using structural equation and Lisrel. Five component and general category in a format of paradigm including individual condition and factor, organizational (University) conditions, condition and performance of Ministry and University, strategies to improve performance of teaching staff and result of programs with sub components. These caused to shape performance management model. The result of indicator suitability of structural equation model of the study shows that all indicators reported properly and predicted variable explained 60% variance of depended variable.