Developing a Model for Research Empowerment of High School Students in Hormozgan

The purpose of this research is to present a model for research empowerment of high school students in Hormozgan province. This research is classified in the mixed research group of sequential exploratory design

The research method in the qualitative part is content analysis. The potential contributors in the qualitative section included experts with research records related to the field of research empowerment. The research method in the quantitative part is descriptive-analytical. The statistical population in the quantitative section includes all secondary school students of Hormozgan province in the academic year 2019-1400, whose number is equal to 126,274 people. To determine the participants, in the qualitative part, a purposeful sampling method based on criteria was used, and after 20 interviews, the data reached theoretical saturation. To determine the sample size in the quantitative part, using stratified random sampling method based on Morgan's table, 265 first and 119 second high school students were selected. The data collection tool in the qualitative part was semi-structured interviews. The validity of the data was determined by using the techniques of reliability and transferability through researchers' self-review and data alignment, and reliability was determined by carefully directing the flow of information collection and researchers' alignment. Also, for more certainty, the method of agreement between two coders and the Kappa coefficient have been used. In the quantitative part, the data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire with 33 closed-ended items. To measure the validity of this questionnaire, using the item analysis method, the correlation coefficient between the items and the total score of the respective questionnaire was calculated

In this research, 5 main themes were identified: the spirit of research, inhibiting factors, improvement solutions, facilitators of research empowerment and effective factors of research empowerment.

Conclusions and suggestions: 

The existence of educational and research facilities and opportunities can facilitate the necessary conditions for increasing research empowerment. In this way, the existence of appropriate educational and research capacities and facilities promotes research empowerment through the possibility of creative thinking and motivation

Innovation and originality: 

identifying the inhibiting factors, ways of improvement, effective factors and facilitating factors and providing a model for research empowerment