A Survey on Necessity of Teaching Persian Language and Literature to Arabic Translation Students

The purpose of this study is to investigate the content of the course of research and statistics in educational and psychological sciences. For this purpose, 22 universities from the prestigious ones ranking in the Scimago and Shanghai rankings, and the syllabus and books used to teach the research method in psychology and education were analyzed. The research method in this study was content analysis. Data were collected using a researcher-made checklist based on a list of books and university curricula in psychology and educational science. Findings indicate that the largest part of the list of books and courses of the universities goes for ethics of research, psychology as a science and a variety of experimental methods. By examining the content of the list of books and syllabuses of prestigious universities around the world and by distributing thematically, we can help teachers identify the right content for compiling appropriate and needed community textbooks.