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The purpose of this research was the internal evaluation of the department of educational sciences of Farhangian University and ways to improve the quality of its education in the academic year of 1401-02.

This research is applied in terms of purpose and quantitative in terms of the type of data sought, which was conducted with a cross-sectional survey method. The statistical population of the research included all faculty members, student teachers, and graduates of the Department of Educational Sciences. The sampling method in the faculty members section was a complete census, but in the Students section, using stratified sampling and based on the sample size determination table of Karjesi and Morgan with alpha (.05), 145 students were selected as the research sample. A standard questionnaire and checklist were used to collect data. The collected data were carried out using descriptive statistics methods.

From the total of six investigated factors, the factor of teaching-learning strategies was evaluated at a favorable level, three factors of goals and organizations, student teachers and fields of study were relatively favorable, and two factors of faculty members and facilities and equipment were evaluated at an unfavorable level. In general, the educational science group was in a relatively favorable situation.

The highest internal evaluation score was given to the factor of teaching-learning strategies and the lowest score was given to the factor of educational facilities and equipment.

Quality is essential for the survival of modern educational institutions and a gateway to the globalization of higher education. In the last few decades, engineering has gone through many changes and certain criteria have been proposed for a standard engineering education. Today, leading engineering education schools have revised their educational programs to enable graduates to enter the national and international engineering job market. This situation calls for prioritizing improvement in educational program quality. One of the most common methods for identifying the quality of education is to pass the accreditation process successfully. In modern “accreditation”, instead of measuring what the university offers, the focus is on “outcomes” or what the graduates have gained. To judge the extent to which students achieve the desired outcomes, two methods of evaluation have been developed: “internal assessment” or “self-assessment” by the educational institution; and “external assessment” by independent accreditation bodies. This article first reviews the status of engineering education accreditation in the world and explains the mechanism of internal and external assessment. Then, measures that have been taken in the last decade to evaluate engineering education in Iran, according to the common criteria in the world, are explained

Based on the purpose, the present study is an applied research and in terms of data collection method is a descriptive-analytical research. The approach of the present study is a mix method and both quantitative and qualitative methods have been used. The statistical population in the quantitative research consisted of heads of departments and faculty members, students, graduates and library managers; and the statistical population in the qualitative research included experts and faculty members. Appropriate sample size of the statistical population of the quantitative research: 36 managers of educational departments, 97 faculty members of departments, 130 students, 6 library managers by stratified random sampling; 120 members of the graduate community were available by sampling method and in the qualitative research 66 faculty members were experts and specialists by non-random snowball sampling method. The research tools were researcher-made questionnaire, interview and checklist. The face validity and content validity of the research instrument was estimated by experts and the reliability of the questionnaires was estimated by Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 97%. The reliability of the interview questions was obtained by the agreement coefficient of the interviewees. In the quantitative research, inferential descriptive statistics and structural equations were used, and in the qualitative research, data coding was used. The results showed that internal evaluation in 3 main stages and 13 steps including 8 factors and 42 criteria and 214 indicators and external evaluation in 8 stages can be counted.

The aim of this study was to design and present an appropriate validation model at the level of the Department of Islamic Azad University.

The research method is a combination of consecutive explanatory design and in terms of purpose is among the applied research. The statistical population in the quantitative part included the heads of departments and faculty members of the Islamic Azad University and in the qualitative part included experts and faculty members. Quantitative sample size of 36 department heads and 97 faculty members was determined by random stratified sampling method and in qualitative section 66 expert faculty members and field specialists were determined by non-random snowball sampling method. Researcher-made questionnaire, interview and checklist were used. The face and content validity of the questionnaires and research tools were determined using the opinions of experts, supervisors and consultants and the reliability of the questionnaires was estimated with Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.97. Descriptive and inferential statistical methods and structural equation modeling were used to analyze the data

Findings showed that from the perspective of the sample, the quality of the dimensions and the process of implementing the internal and external evaluation plan of the university is above average.

The results showed that five steps are necessary for validation at the departmental level and the number of 8 factors, 42 criteria and 214 validation indicators were identified and the validation model has a good fit

The purpose of this study was internal evaluation in Malayer University’s educational department. The method of this research is descriptive in type of survey. In this research, 7 factors, 27 criteria and 78 indicators were evaluated among the six statistical communities including: faculty members, heads of department, deputy and chair of the faculty of literature and humanities, students, graduates of the past three years and their employers. The heads of department and faculty, department members and employer’s samples were counted in a complete census, and student and graduate’s samples were selected randomly using the Morgan table. A structured interview and a checklist of information were compiled using a researcher-made questionnaire. Their validity was confirmed by supervisors and consultants and the reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha method. In analyzing data, descriptive statistics and judgments about the desirability of each factor were used in three desirables, relatively desirable and undesirable levels. The organizational structure, organization and management, applied training courses, and learning-learning process, facilities and equipment, students, faculty members factors evaluated as relatively desirable, and graduates factor evaluated as undesirable. Based on the findings, suggestions were made to improve the department quality and quantity.

Developing a model for internal evaluation of departments of Iranian universities with metaevaluation approachHojat gholamzadeh Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, IranSakine shahi Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, IranHamid Farhadi rad Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, IranSeyed abbas razaviDepartment of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, IranAbstractThe present study is to meta-evaluate the status qua of higher education internal evaluation and subsequently propose a meta-evaluation model. In so doing, a qualitative design is used. In-depth Semi-structured interview was used to gather data from the informants. In addition, document analysis was conducted. To analyze data, free coding, axial coding and selective coding were used. The proposed meta-evaluation model was comprised of three primary constructs, e.g. context of internal evaluation (cultural aspect, paradigm aspect, structural aspect, and quality aspect), content of internal evaluation (model, goals, and indicators), and execution of internal evaluation (pre-execution, while execution, and post-execution). Finally, necessary steps are presented to approach meta-evaluation. Keywords: higher education, quality evaluation, internal evaluation, meta-evaluation

The purpose of this study was to survay quality of implementation of internal evaluation of the educational departments of Shahid Beheshti University. The research method is descriptive of survey type and its purpose is applied research. The statistical population of this study was 70 faculty members of the 17 groups that conducted the internal evaluation of Shahid Beheshti University. 59 of them were selected using Morgan table and simple random sampling method. For data collection, a researcher made questionnaire was used and for analyzing the data, descriptive and inferential statistics (one-sample T, multivariate analysis of variance and post-hoc LSD test) were used. The findings of this study showed that from the viewpoint of faculty members of Shahid Beheshti University, the quality of the dimensions of the "input domain and the process of implementation of the internal evaluation plan" was higher than the average, the quality of "the field of implementation of the internal evaluation plan", lower than the average and quality "The implications of implementing an internal evaluation plan" are modest. Also, reviewing the views and opinions of the faculty members regarding the quality of implementation of the internal evaluation project indicated that some of the effective and positive points of implementation of the internal evaluation project in the educational groups of Shahid Beheshti University include: Improvement of the quality of the educational and research activities of the group, realistic and comprehensive planning and targeting, students' empowerment and empowerment of the members of the group, interaction and participation of members in the affairs of the group, identification and recognition of the strengths and weaknesses of the group, Granting independence and empowerment to the group, internal and external needs assessment and some issues and problems implementing the internal evaluation plan in the educational groups of Shahid Beheshti University include: Lack of follow up, action and feedback from the implementation of the plan, lack of coordination and co-operation among the various parts of the university. Weakness awareness and information about the processes and objectives of the project to the members of the group, Lack of implementation of results and findings of project implementation at the level of educational groups, lack of funds and human capital to implement the plan.

The main purpose of this study is to consider the prediction of the students' perception of academic departments on the bases of their perception of available social capital of different faculties at Shiraz University. The statistical population of this project contains all of the students of Shiraz University, by the use of cluster sampling method after the selection of Faculty of Science, Psychology and Engineering as the research sample. All the bachelor students of the selected faculties answered the questionnaires completely. The research instruments were social capital questionaries (TorkZadeh & Mohtaram, 2012) and students' perception of academic climates (Ralf et al, 1997) that was gathered distributed after validity and reliability calculations. The received data were analyzed by the descriptive and inferential statistics method. The results demonstrated that the average social and the educational atmosphere desirability and each of their dimensions from the students' point of view are less than average means (Q3). The students' perception of academic climate is predicated through social capital. Hence, the results represented the positive and meaningful relationship between the students' perception of social capital and academic climate.

Practical Implementation of National Quality Assurance Network for universities could be envisioned by urging everyone to conduct internal evaluation on their engineering programs. It follows a shift in engineering education paradigms and accreditation process for bachelor’s degree programs over the world in accord with universal criteria for evaluations. The common surface among modern engineering education disciplines is found to be the outcome-based approach, which tends to design, execute and evaluate the engineering modules based on outcomes rather than inputs and the process merely. Since this approach revolves about outcomes and achievements, it creates an appropriate room for all the accreditation and internal evaluation requirements to be accommodated in an adoptable way. In this mechanism, development of subject outline plays a crucial role in shaping outcome-based educational strategies. Therefore, it seems imperative to review the traditional subject outline and transform it to the fashion that becomes suitable for internal evaluation process. In this paper, the subject outline for Power System Analysis 2 is developed and, further, its potential and strategic capabilities for evaluation, monitoring and troubleshooting in educational system is studied. Based on the results found, the proposed outcome-based subject outline can cater one various learning outcome assessments, effective leverage for high level bloom’s taxonomy, and Improvement plans for upcoming semesters. At last, a linear programming model is suggested which may work as an optimal initial point to better lay out improvement plans for futuristic semesters to be prescribed in case.

The Purpose of this descriptive Study is the internal evaluation of research groups in Institute for Research and Planning of Higher Education (IRPHE). This is a descriptive-evaluative study and based on the goal, it is an applied research. The population of the study includes faculty member (N=22), employees (N=16), librarian (N=1). Due to the limited population of the study, data was collected through census sampling and researcher-made questionnaire. The Cronbach` Alpha is used to estimate the reliability coefficient for each questionnaire (faculty members=.97, employees=.96, present situation of the goals=.88 and desired situation of the goals=.88). Also descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyze the data. The results indicate that there is a significant difference between present situation and desired situation of IRPHE goals. Meanwhile, three factors were analyzed in this study; Input Factors (using financial resources and facilities as components), Process Factor (including regulations, approvals, group meetings, group management and group performance) and Output Factors (including educational outcomes, research products, social services and administrative activities). According to these three factors the results illustrates that the quality of each factors are relativity optimal

The use of information and communication technology in teaching-learning process is a relatively new phenomenon and it has been the educational researcher's focus. The purpose of this research is to study of the status of using information and communication technology in engineering departments based on the results of Internal Evaluation reports.
The methodology of this research is meta-analysis on 80 Internal Evaluation reports of engineering departments. These reports have been approved by Center of Research for Evaluation, accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education in National Organization for Educational Testing. The quality of Information and Communication Technology have been studied in three domain of Knowledge, skills and implementation and infrastructure and facilities.
Finding: The analysis of data indicates that the quality of Information and Communication technology: knowledge domain is evaluated desireable (5/2), indicators of ICT: skills and implementation domain are relative desirable (2) and the third domain is far from desirable level (1/6) and need to revision and reformation. At the end, in order to improvement of weak points, some recommendations have been presented.

Internal evaluation is a process of the study of the university system and quality of scientific groups by members of system that can make a surprising evolution in higher education. The aim of this study was to internal evaluate of Civil Engineering Department of Malayer University to develop and improve the quality of that department and provide solutions to its problems. For this purpose, after grounding the CIPP model components, to internal evaluate of this group, seven factor such as objects, management and organization; Faculty members, students, educational and non-educational training courses and curricula, teaching-learning process, graduates and educational, and research facilities was evaluated. In order to assess these factors 47 criteria and 182 items was considered. Each of these items was recorded by measuring one or more variables. This research is applied research and the descriptive - survey research method were used. The instruments used for data collection included researcher made questionnaires, interviews, checklists and necessary data analysis. It is tried to determine the current status of the department and the suitability of each item. The results showed that except of faculty members factor that was desirable, other factors of internal evaluation was not favorable in civil engineering department. In other words, the present situation of civil engineering department was relatively favorable. To improve the quality of the department, university authorities and department planners should eliminate the above-mentioned deficiencies.

Curriculum is one of the most important factors and inputs of educational systems. Today higher education institutions and universities use various ways to evaluate the quality of their curriculum and identify the strengths and weaknesses after implementing a new curriculum to improve the quality of education. One of these is internal evaluation. The purpose of this research is to study the quality of the curriculum in 80 engineering departments based on the results of internal evaluation reports. The methodology of this research is a document analysis using the meta-analysis method on 80 internal evaluation reports of engineering departments. We used 5 criteria and 40 indictors to study the current status of the curriculum in these departments. The analysis of data indicates that the quality of curriculum in engineering departments is far from a desirable level and in need of revision and reformation. Lastly, several recommendations have been presented in order to improve the quality of the curriculum in engineering departments.

Internal evaluation, as a purposeful phenomenon having positive functions in reforming and improving the academic quality, is an undeniable necessity. The present research aims to conduct an internal evaluation on the department of statistic of university of science and culture as the first nonprofit university, in an attempt to explain the objectives, processes and results. To this end, seven factors (organizational structure, organizational chart and management, faculty, students, courses, teaching-learning process, alumni, equipment), 22 criteria and 60 indicators were considered. The population consisted of dean, head of department, faculty (4 person) and teachers (5 person), students (undergraduate (263 person) and graduates (27 person)), alumni (37 person) and the librarian. The required information of bachelor students were collected using multi-stage sampling and those of the other participants were collected using a complete census sampling. Data collection instruments were questionnaires, structured interviews and checklists. To assess the validity of questionnaires, the comments of supervisors and advisors were used and, based on Cronbach’s alpha, the reliability of the questionnaires of faculty, undergraduate students, graduate students and alumni was calculated through 0/795, 0/919, 0/971 and 0/766, respectively. For data analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics are used and to judge the quality of each factors of the whole three-level utility are used too. Totally from seven investigated factors, four factors are relatively favorable and three factors are unfavorable. Based on assessment results, strength and weakness points are identified and suggestions were made to improve the quality, including attracting experienced faculty, according to the research, the facilities, the evaluation and ….

In the last two or three decades a global move was formed to revaluate engineering education and accreditation of its outcomes. The main principle in all these efforts was paying less attention to entries (what university offers) and put more attention on the outcomes (what students have gained). To accomplish this goal, the minimum expected outcomes of an undergraduate engineering program was formulated. Mutual agreement on the fundamental outcomes of an engineering graduate paves the road to reach to a globally uniform procedure for the accreditation of these programs. The accreditation of engineering programs consists of internal and external assessments. The internal or self assessment is carried out by educational institutions, while independent national institutions are usually responsible for the external assessment. Successful external assessment needs clearly defined standards carried out by unbiased evaluators. After foundation of Iran Accreditation Institute for Engineering Education (IAIEE), the process and standards of accreditation of Iranian engineering educational programs was prepared. This paper presents the designed mechanism for external assessment of the engineering programs of Iran.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the internal quality of Physical Education and sports sciencesdepartment of Tabriz Azad University and to determine the strong and weak points of the department in order to give some suggestions for improving the quality of education this department. The methodology used was a descriptive cross – sectional one. The statistical population concluded 4 heads of thedepartment, 12 faculty members, 315 students and 254 graduates of Physical Education course. The statistical samples were 4 heads of the deportment, 12 faculty members which were selected in an all counting way. For selecting the sample of students and graduates, including 157 students and 105 graduates, Morgan’s table was used. For gathering the data, two instruments including a questionnaire and a check list were utilized. Using SPSS soft ware the data were analyzed. The quality of each item was determined at one of these three levels: full efficient, efficient to some extent and non efficient. For evaluating the quality of the department, 7 factors, 31 criteria and 100 indicators were applied. The findings showed that the goals, organizational station, managerial and organizational structure and also students were located at an efficient level. The faculty members, teaching and learning methods, educational courses and curriculum and educational and research equipments and facilities were found to be at a relatively efficient level, but the graduates were at a non-efficient level. On the whole, the physical education and sports sciences department was at a relatively efficit level. The findings reveal that the faculty members and decision makers should do their best to improve the educational quality of the department.

Comparative studies have proven that higher education institutions will be successful if they enjoy a consistent and disciplined institutional accreditation system. A prerequisite for such a system is having appropriate criteria and internal evaluation of higher education institutions. The purpose of this paper is to examine how good these criteria and indexes and also internal evaluation of higher education institutions are as an essential prerequisite for their rankings. In addition to studying the higher education accreditation in different countries around the world, this article used a descriptive, analytical-comparative method to examine the criteria and indexes applied internationally and also compared different rankings across the world. Then, according to our country’s situation, a pattern composed of appropriate criteria and indexes was provided to the reader. The results indicated that the more higher education institutions put an emphasis on the role that accreditation and internal evaluation play in improvement of the quality of higher education, on the institutionalizing the culture of accreditation and measuring in the higher education institutes, on the familiarity of the administrators and decision makers in higher education systems with the use of motivational tools and granting privileges and rewards to the faculty and students, the more successful they will be.

The main purpose of this study is internal evaluation of Agricultural Extension and Education Division of Bu-Ali Sina University in order to identify the strengths and weaknesses of teaching and research at micro level. In order to evaluate the department status, six factors were studied including 1) faculty members, 2) students, 3) graduates, 4) teaching- learning, 5) facilities and equipment, and 6) research. This study was a survey and descriptive statistics were used for analyzing data. Validity of questions used in the questionnaire was confirmed by an expert team. For calculating the reliability of the questionnaire the Cronbach alpha coefficient was used. The average value of this test was 0. 76. The study samples included 75 students, 58 graduates, five faculty members, and four other staff in the Department. The study was conducted between 2000 and 2001. The results revealed that the department status was desirable in terms of both faculty members and teaching- learning factor. However, in terms of students, graduates, facilities and equipment, and research factor it was fairly desirable.

The present study conducted in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM) to evaluate the Internal Evaluation Plans (IEP) and ways to develop its effectiveness. Research method was case study and the source of information was five groups including: the head of departments or internal evaluators who completed IEP(n=16), the head of departments or internal evaluators who did not complete IEP(n=35); the head of departments and faculty members of departments who avoided to be engaged with IEP(n=16); evaluation specialists(n=3); and staff top managers of FUM(n=7) in 2012. To collect information by a semi structured interview a purposive sampling method used to select interviewees. By applying an interpretive analysis method the themes were driven from the written interviews. After categorizing the themes their validation was confirmed by scholars. Findings showed that the most important reasons for interpreting the avoidance of IEP in some departments are: an organizational culture; some physical incentives limitations;The most important problems that the internal evaluators were confronted with included: cooperation from the faculty authorities; comprehensive information; updated knowledge level of students; physical incentives; graduates accessibility. The main reasons for not being operational the solutions and recommendations driven from the IEPs were: less emphasis on implementing the recommendations by the university authorities; periodical replacements of head departments. The main solutions for more effective internal evaluation projects in FUM included: increasing financial and nonfinancial incentives.