Effect of Professional Competence Components on Agriculture High Schools Educator's Job Performance in the North West Provinces of Iran

Given the vital importance of job performance and the key role of educators as one of the main foundations of education, recognizing the effective variables on improving the job performance of the educators is essential particularly professional competencies. Therefore, the main purpose of this research was to study the effect of professional competence components on agriculture high schools educator's job performance in the north west provincces. The statistical population consisted of all educators of agriculture high schools in the four provincces of Iran, including West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, Ardebil and Zanjan (N=295), of which a sample size of 210 person was selected using stratified random sampling method. Data were collected using the research-made questionnaire. Content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts. Furthermore, based on the values of Average Variance Extracted (0.525