Construction and Validation of an Instrument to Determine Effective Factors on Research Productivity in Physical Education and Sport Sciences Faculty Members

Researches show that limited models have been designed to measure the research productivity of higher educationcenters, but so far, no reliable and valid instrument have been provided to measure the research productivity of university faculty members. Identifying effective factors on research productivity is very significant to improve the scientific quality of the faculty and the institution of the interest. The purpose of this study was to construction and validation of an instrument to determine effective factors on research productivity in physical education faculty members. The statistical population of the study consisted of 831 faculty members of physical education and sport sciences of Islamic Azad University. The statistical sample for determining the psychometric indices was 150 people and 300 people were selected by cluster sampling method. Research questionnaire with 29 questions was made based on theoretical bases and gaining expert opinions through a mixed study (qualitative and quantitative)according to structural equation modeling which has consisted of three main factors and nine sub-factors. The results of exploratory and confirmatory factors analysis using Amos software version 23 showed that the instrument are reliable. Therefore, based on the findings of the research, it can be suggested that university administrators can use the questionnaire designed in this research to measure and improving research productivity of their faculty members.