Internal Evaluation of Research Groups in Institute for Research & Planning of Higher Education (IRPHE)

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