The educational needs analysis of family educational programs of the pupil's parents in District 1 of Tabriz

The present research was conducted in order to study the educational needs of the parents taking part in family education programs of Tabriz District 1 Educational Office. The present study is a descriptive-survey based research, and an applied research in terms of its results. The population of the study included the parents of all students, in the academic Year 91-92. Cluster random sampling was used for selecting 382 parents. To collect the data three Lickert scale researcher-made questionnaires of were prepared. The primary school learner's parental questionnaire included 59 fixed answer questions and 1 open-ended question; the questionnaire for junior high school learners included 55 fixed answer questions and one open-ended question and the questionnaire for senior high school students included 62 fixed answer questions and one open-ended question. The face validity and content validity of the questionnaires were verified by the supervisor and four professors from Tabriz University, and their reliability in Cronbach Alpha was calculated to be 0.980, 0.871 and 0.976. To achieve research goals, 5 research questions were posed. To analyze the data the descriptive statistics including frequency, median and mean and the inferential statistics of independent t-test, one-way-ANOVA of SPSS software were conducted. The results from the study indicate that the most important educational needs of the parents in family education programs from the parent's point, of view are religious-moral needs. Cultural-social, educational - psychological, emergent issues and hygienic - physical dimensions were respectively the parent's other educational needs. The results also indicate that there is no significant difference between the educational needs of the parents and variables like sex, age, educational level, and the parent's job.