Knowledge Assessment based on Exploratory Factors Analysis and Dematel Utilizition

The purpose of this study is to identify the factors of measurement of knowledge of faculty members of universities and determining the type of relationship between hidden variables. The data is collected based on library resources and questionnaire, and also analyzed based on Exploratory Factor Analysis and Dematel. The society was137 faculty members of public organizations of Iran in the human resource and education management. based on the results of research, 59 effective indicators of faculty members' knowledge measurement were grouped in 5 factors or hidden variable which was named: "management ability", "scientific ability (fundamental)", "scientific ability (practical)", "interaction and communities skills", specialized skills". The relationship between variables and conceptual model were obtained by Dematel technique. The present research model is not suitable for faculty members of medical and arts majors, because of differences in knowledge measurement indicatores,. Providing a model which can messure the knowledge of faculty members, and also can be the basis for comparing knowledge and ranking. Despite being a variety of knowledge measuring models, none of them has the ability to use in universities for their nonprofit purposes, and also existing models are not publicly available due to the lack of coverage of all aspects of knowledge, therefore, a model which can measure the knowledge of faculty members will have a significant study value and a good achievement.