An Analysis of the Development Level of Educational Indicators as a Factor for Assessing Inequalities and Achieving Sustainable Educational Justice: A Case Study, Education Areas of Mazandaran Province

At present, educational inequalities are one of the most important factors in the field of educational planning, which has an important and decisive role in the development of educational justice and the development of social justice. The aim of this study was to investigate the level of development of educational indicators as a factor to assess inequalities and achieve sustainable educational justice in the cities of Mazandaran province.

The method is descriptive-analytical which has been performed by survey method.The required information was collected by reviewing the relevant documents and using a questionnaire. The statistical population includes all high school students in 22 cities of Mazandaran province in the academic year 2020-2021 (N = 21981).To select the sample, 924 people were selected from the stratified sampling method with proportional assignment. Data analysis was performed using (SPSS), (Excel) and (ArcGIS) software. Also, (TOPSIS) model, Shannon entropy and F test were used.

North Savadkuh (with a coefficient 0.995), Simorgh (with a coefficient 0.685), Joybar (with a coefficient 0.354) in the highest rank and Mahmoudabad (with a coefficient 0.0204), Amol (With a coefficient 0.0176) and Behshahr (with a coefficient 0.0121) have the weakest status in terms of educational indicators (input, process and output) considered in this study.

According to the results, the cities of Mazandaran province are not at the same level in terms of development of educational indicators and this province needs to be reviewed in many programs to achieve sustainable education justice.