The Challenges of the Regulations for the Promotion of Faculty Members for the Equated Comparison of the Assessment and Evaluation Process of Scientific Productivity of Music Researchers in Iran

The present study aims to identify dominant outputs in the music field and equate them with outputs mentioned in the regulations for the promotion of faculty members in order to prevent neglecting a major part of activities of faculty members in the field of music and make fair and proper evaluations of this issue.

This research is a kind of applied and exploratory research and it used the library method, survey and content analysis with an exploratory and similarity approach.

The findings showed that the dominant outputs in the music are related to “composing”. Also focused group was not enough agreed with authoring and translating books, journal articles, conference papers, speech at the conferences and conducting research projects, while they were agreed a lot with outputs like individual and group concerts, composing, releasing albums, making a piece for the movie and being an orchestra leader. Also the findings of this study showed that only 27.27% of the output of  the regulations for the promotion of faculty members covers the field of music.

It was found that there is no consideration for the dominant musical outputs in the regulations for the promotion of faculty members and just a general item is considered as ‘new and valuable artistic works’ and it has not so much score. This will ignore major faculty members' abilities and they do not get enough points in the regulations. To solve this problem, outputs which could be equated with the predicted outputs in the regulations have been shown.