Design and validation of extracurricular curriculum for Farhangian University

This research was done with the aim of designing an extracurricular curriculum for Farhangian University. The research approach was applied in terms of purpose, exploratory mixed (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of data, in terms of the nature and type of study in qualitative dimension, paradigmatic foundation data and cross-sectional survey in quantitative dimension.

A semi-structured interview was used in the qualitative part, and a researcher-made questionnaire was used in the quantitative part, and to measure the validity of the qualitative part, according to experts, and to measure reliability, retest and intra-subject agreement methods were used. For the validity of the questionnaire, face and content validity were used and coefficients were confirmed, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used for the reliability of the quantitative part. The data were analyzed in the qualitative part by the foundation data method and in the quantitative part by the confirmatory factor analysis test and structural equation modeling.

It showed that among the 21 existing indicators (items), 40 main categories can be identified, which include the main factors, goal, content and evaluation, effective factors including educational, technological and organizational, consequences including individual, educational, scientific-applicative and organizational.

The results showed that the extracurricular curriculum model implementation strategies can be summarized in several managerial, organizational, individual and educational factors. Also, the existing platforms including educational, organizational, attitudinal and individual factors were identified and the existing barriers including educational, management and individual barriers were reported. Finally, a model derived from the identified factors was drawn, which had good validity.