EVALUATION THE EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS OF BOUKAN HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER DURING 2016 ACADEMIC YEAR

Evaluation is an overall process of systematic analysis that can lead to arbitration and offering the quality assurance of one higher education institution that yields continuous quality improvement. So this study aimed to evaluate the status of Boukan Nursing Educational Center. This cross-sectional study was done by the inclusion of all of the managers, faculties, students, and staff using the national educational accreditation tool for Iranian university of medical sciences. First, the descriptive analysis was done on data and the obtained results reported as frequency and percentage for qualitative variables, the mean and standard deviation for quantitative. The results categorized and reported for all dimensions separately after determining cutoff points. The study results showed that the mean desirability level for the students, faculties, managers, and the staff was 65, 79, 76, 70 and 70 percent respectively. The highest compliance level was allocated to the faculties and the lowest level was among the students. The mean compliance level was 72 percent. Results regarding the evaluation of various dimensions indicated that the highest compliance level was allocated to “Mission and Goals”, “Continuous education of educated people” and “students’ education”; and the lowest level was for “management”, “faculty members” and “clinical education” respectively. Finally, the study results show that the status of this faculty is relatively desirable, but with some needs for improvement in some areas such as management and education.