Identifying the Factors Effecting on Assessing the Quality of Educational Services in Education

Considering the role of quality of educational services in the growth and development of society, the present study was conducted to the aim of identifying the factors effecting on assessing the quality of educational services in education.

This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation was qualitative. The research community included documents related to the quality of educational services and experts in this field including university professors, current and former senior managers and school managers in the seventh district of Tehran education in 2020 year. The research sample included documents and 17 experts according to the principle of theoretical saturation which after reviewing the desired characteristics to inclusion criteria were selected by purposive sampling method. Data were collected by take noting and semi-structured interview methods and to analyze them used from open, axial and selective coding method.

The results showed that for the factors effecting on assessing the quality of educational services were identified 83 open codes in the form of 39 sub-categories and 5 main categories. The five main categories included organization management with 7 sub-categories, organization structure with 9 sub-categories, human resources with 6 sub-categories, comprehensive planning with 9 sub-categories and quality management with 8 sub-categories. Finally, based on the identified categories was designed the conceptual model of research for factors effecting on assessing the quality of educational services in education.

The results of this research can help education specialists and planners both to assess the quality of educational services and to improve the quality of educational services in education. As a result, the use of education experts and planners from the conceptual model of current research along with models derived from other research can play an important role in improving the quality of educational services.