Investigate the situation of graduate students' perceptions of the utility component of the curriculum at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

The purpose of this study was to investigate the graduate students' perceptions of the utility component of the curriculum at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Component of the curriculum in this research includes the perception the purpose, content, method and evaluation. This study is practical in purpose and is a descriptive one the from research methodology perspective. For this purpose, a sample of 197 graduate students in the academic year 2014-15, in Ferdowsi University Mashhad, was selected by quota sampling. The samples were determined by Cochran sampling formula, 197 students. The instruments that used in this study, researcher made questionnaire that is students' perceptions of component of the curriculum that was developed based on the pattern of Tyler from Component of the curriculum. Results showed that students perception of the utility component method is in moderate (p<0/05) and the component content is in moderate (p>0/05) and perception of the purpose and evaluation is less than moderate (p<0/01).