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Various factors including cultural competences and social support affect teachers' professional ethics. This study intended to model structural relationships, cultural competence, and elementary teachers' professional ethics with the mediating role of social support.

This descriptive-correlational research was conducted using structural equation modeling. The population consisted of 2100 elementary school teachers of Tabriz, out of which 325 teachers were selected, and structural equation modeling was used to answer the valid questionnaires on cultural competence, professional ethics, and social support . Data analysis was done with SPSS 26 and SMART PLS 3 software.

The results of the research showed that the model has a good fit and cultural competences and social support were directly, positively, and significantly (P < 0.01) able to predict professional ethics. Moreover, the mediating role of social support in the relationship between cultural competencies and professional ethics was positive and significant (P < 0.01).

Based on the results, it can be said that paying attention to cultural competencies and social support can lead to to the development of professional ethics. In addition to these results, it can create novel insights for policy makers and educational planners in the development of professional ethics.

The aim of this study was to investigate the causal conditions for evaluating higher education policies in non-medical disciplines. The research method is qualitative research (data foundation theory) - quantitative (survey). A total of 17 experts, including members of parliament, administrators and university professors, were selected for face-to-face interviews using a non-random, purposeful method. Questionnaires were designed from coded and validated interviews using triangulation. In the quantitative section, among the professors and educational directors of non-medical disciplines of East Azerbaijan province, 200 people were selected based on the standard of determining the sample size in factor analysis (observing at least 200 samples). In order to analyze the data obtained from the interviews, a three-step process of open, centralized and selective coding was used. Dimensions and components were determined and the model was examined. SPSS and Lisrel statistical software were used to describe the data. The results of the first and second confirmation factor analysis showed that the causal conditions for evaluating higher education policies in non-medical fields include the country's need for trained personnel, lack of strong educational planning, lack of skills training at the higher education level, and the need to coordinate higher education policies with the labor market. The final result is that the causal conditions for evaluating higher education policies in non-medical disciplines require precise policy-making and planning in the field of proficiency and Adaptation to the regional labor market.

This research was carried out with the aim of investigating the effective factors on the quality of education and teaching at Ardebil University of Medical Sciences in mixed method. In fact, by combining the qualitative method of "focus group interviews" and the quantitative "descriptive-survey" method. In the qualitative section, the factors and factors affecting the quality of teaching were identified and classified from the perspective of professors and students of the university's leading universities. In a small section, 354 people (78 teachers and 276 students of science) were selected through a researcher-made questionnaire that were selected by simple random sampling method. Then, the data were analyzed using SPSS22 software with Manova & Friedman Ranking Statistical Method. The findings of the qualitative research section showed that the factors of individual and professional faculty, successful implementation of curriculum, educational evaluation, class management, physical space of the university, factors of outsourcing (education) and in-structural (environmental-organizational) highest They have a role in the quality of teaching and learning at the University of Cultural Studies. Also, in a quantitative study, the findings showed that there is no difference in the factors of the extracted factors, except for internal and external factors, from the viewpoint of the male and female students. In terms of factors ranking, from the perspective of the faculty members of the internal structural (environmental-organizational) factors, Individual and professional faculty members and outsourcing factors (education) were ranked first to third, and from the viewpoint of academic students, the individual and professional characteristics of faculty members were ranked first, environmental factors - organizational and outsourcing (education) In the second and third ranks. As a result, it should be said that in the quality of teaching of Farhangian University in Ardebil, many factors have been involved, among which the most influences are the individual and professional characteristics of faculty members and the internal structural factors of the university (environmental-organizational), which require special attention.