نشریه نامه آموزش عالی
پیاپی 47 (پاییز 1398)

The purpose of this study was to examine the effective factors on entrepreneurship education in educational organizations with the emphasis on organizations and higher education institutions in order to create entrepreneurial attitudes using experts' views. To this end, a semi-structured interview was conducted using a qualitative approach with 15 experts based on purposeful sampling. The data were analyzed using the content analysis in three stages of open, axial and selective coding. In order to investigate the validity of the data, the experts who participated in this study were utilized and the identified components were provided to them and, with the necessary consultation, corrective actions were taken. The reliability of the interview with the intra-subject agreement was 0.92, which indicates the desirable reliability of the data. The findings of the study, after two stages of reviewing the sources and backgrounds and semi-structured interviews with experts and experts, identified the seven components that affect entrepreneurship education in order to create entrepreneurial attitudes that are: individual and personality traits of learners, characteristics and Personality traits and individual teachers, space and educational equipment, style and leadership style of educational centers managers, content and curriculum, teaching methods and methods of educators, executive and practical programs.

Narrative literature reviews could serve an essential scientific function, but few resources help people learn to write them through manuals or descriptions. The present paper aims to introduce the research capacities of narrative inquiry methodology in the field of higher education studies. Through documentary method by searching different scientific websites like SAGE, Elsevier, Springer, and etc. for related articles between 2000 and 2017, 22 documents were retrieved, and after the initial review, 13 documents were selected based on the criteria of utility and being up-to-date. To explore these resources, Altheide's process of document analysis (1996) was used. It seems that, there are four comprehensive narrative approaches which could be used in higher education researches: 1) Psychological approach, 2) Sociological approach, 3) Narration and individual’s interpretation of the narration according their specific cultural experiences, and 4) Institutional-organizational approach. Despite the potential of narrative studies and academic elites’ worthy accumulated experiences and other areas and due to the dominance of positivism in higher education and low acquaintance of researcher with narrative methods, researchers have taken a few advantage of this method in higher education area. This article, considering narrative methods’ limitations, intends to illustrate new horizons to utilize this method in higher education studies.

This research was done aiming at designing a comprehensive model of organizational inertia at Lorestan university. It is an applied research and in terms of the research method, it is qualitative-quantitative; the data were analyzed using the interpretive-fuzzy structural modeling method. To this end, in the first step, factors causing organizational inertia were extracted from theoretical literature and were approved by interviewing 23 selected faculty members from different departments using a purposeful sampling method. The output of this stage was the extraction of 12 main factors. In the next step, to connect and sequence the dimensions and present their structural model, an interpretive structural modeling technique was used in the fuzzy environment to resolve the language ambiguity of the experts' judgments, which is based on expert opinions and analysis. In this study, the results of the research led to the design of an integrated organizational inertia model at five levels, in which leveling the factors influencing the inertia formation in the organizations of the Lorestan province were conducted at eleven stages. Lack of competitive space and equal-based performance evaluation  were identified as a basis for the model and the most effective factors in creating organizational inertia; they were placed in MICMAC matrix with high conductivity and low dependency power.

The present study aimed at prioritizing and comparing the factors affecting the maturity of faculty members at Payame Noor University and Islamic Azad University of Sari. The research method was causal-comparative. The statistical population included 175 faculty members of Islamic Azad University and 38 faculty members of Payame Noor University in 2017. A number of 120 faculty members of Islamic Azad University were selected by stratified random sampling and 38 faculty members of Payame Noor University were selected by complete enumeration. A researcher-made questionnaire was used for data collection. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed through face validity and experts' opinions and the reliability of the questionnaire was calculated as 0.94 using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Data analysis was conducted using U-Mann-Whitney and Friedman tests. The findings indicated no significant difference between the faculty members of Payame Noor University and Islamic Azad University in terms of career maturity. In addition, there were no difference in terms of individual factors and educational factors of maturity while a significant difference was found between the maturity of faculty members of Payame Noor University and Islamic Azad University in terms of organizational and environmental factors. Meanwhile, the results indicated that organizational factors at Islamic Azad University and environmental factors at Payame Noor University have the most important role in the maturity of faculty members.

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between literacy rate and Critical thinking of undergraduate students at Bu-Ali Sina University. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlation in terms of nature. The statistical population of the study were all students of Hamedan University of Bu Ali Sina who were studying in the academic year of 98-97. Based on the Karjesi and Morgan tables, 500 people were selected using a comparative stratified sampling method. Data collection was done by means of two questionnaires (Researcher-made Literacy Questionnaire and Rickets Critical Thinking Survey Questionnaire 2005). The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed. The reliability of the questionnaires was also obtained by calculating the Cronbach's alpha coefficient as 0.74 and 0.85. To analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics- such as mean, percent, Kolmogrov-Smirnov test, single-group T test, Pearson correlation test and stepwise regression test- were used in the spss software environment. Based on the findings of the present study, the rate of literacy and critical thinking of undergraduate students at Bu-Ali Sina University is higher than the average (3). Also, the results of Pearson correlation tests and stepwise regression show that there is a direct correlation between literacy and students' critical thinking; in other words, the higher the level of Media Literacy, the more cognitive thinking will increase and if the level of literacy skills is lower, the student's critical thinking will be at a low level too, and it is obvious that all components of the Media Literacy can predict the student's critical thinking.

The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze the content of articles published in the Journal of Higher Education. In this research, 282 papers published in 40 issues of the journal from 2008 to 2017 were studied. The method of this research is descriptive and it is a kind of content analysis. To collect data from the checklist  and to analyze the data, spss software and descriptive tests, and percent and inferential test were used. The findings of this study indicate that the most thematic tendency discussed in the articles of the Journal of higher education is dedicated to the system of evaluation and quality assurance in higher education; also, according to research findings, most of the research methods used are quantitative and the tools  mostly employed for data collection were questionnaires. On the other hand, most research types are independent of researchers??. Regarding  the authorship, the status and number of single-compilation papers are low and most of the articles are written in groups. Also, authors who are not members of the editorial board of the quarterly had the largest share in writing the articles; besides, the authors’ highest level of education is PhD and  the academic rank of most of them is assistant professorship.

The present research endeavors to present an exploratory model for the tendency of young researchers to study and work abroad applying a grounded method and qualitative approach. The required data were collected through in-depth interviews and then analyzed using Glaser method. The 16 participants selected for the interviews were chosen using purposeful sampling. The results of the research identified 67 indicators, 12 concepts, and 6 categories from the interviews which were fit into paradigm model including economic conditions as  the central phenomenon, domestic problems and destination country attractions as the causal conditions, problems in the destination country as the intervening conditions, the immigration process occurrences as  the strategies, and personal benefit and social forfeitures as the consequences, making up the basic tenets of this model.