***Implication of Internal Evaluation for Educational Departments' Quality Improvement: Malayer University's Department of Education

The purpose of this study was internal evaluation in Malayer University’s educational department. The method of this research is descriptive in type of survey. In this research, 7 factors, 27 criteria and 78 indicators were evaluated among the six statistical communities including: faculty members, heads of department, deputy and chair of the faculty of literature and humanities, students, graduates of the past three years and their employers. The heads of department and faculty, department members and employer’s samples were counted in a complete census, and student and graduate’s samples were selected randomly using the Morgan table. A structured interview and a checklist of information were compiled using a researcher-made questionnaire. Their validity was confirmed by supervisors and consultants and the reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha method. In analyzing data, descriptive statistics and judgments about the desirability of each factor were used in three desirables, relatively desirable and undesirable levels. The organizational structure, organization and management, applied training courses, and learning-learning process, facilities and equipment, students, faculty members factors evaluated as relatively desirable, and graduates factor evaluated as undesirable. Based on the findings, suggestions were made to improve the department quality and quantity.