Identifying the challenges related to student learning evaluation in Iranian higher education system

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.