نشریه نامه آموزش عالی
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The aim of this study was to compare the professors and new teachers’ perception of Farhangian University’s role in promoting the professional development of student-teachers.

The research method is descriptive and comparative causal. The statistical population included all internship professors and graduates of Farhangian University, and 27 professors and 125 new teachers were selected by using stratified random sampling method. For data collection, Qaroneh Professional Development Questionnaire (2014) with a reliability of 0.92 was used. In addition to descriptive statistics, one-sample t-test and independent t-test were used to analyze the data.

According to the research findings, there is no significant difference between the professors and new teachers’ perception of Farhangian university’s role in promoting the professional development of student-teacher’s (P >0.05). Also, Farhangian University has acted above average in promoting the educational, individual and organizational maturity of student-teachers, but below average in promoting the development of research and specialized services.

Promoting the development of research and specialized services of student-teachers is one of the challenges of the students of Farhangian university, and requires a good planning.

The main purpose of this research was to design and validate the quality management model of the research activities of university faculty members.

The research method was exploratory mixed and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 experts in the field of quality of university research. After theoretical saturation, dimensions and components of quality management of research activities of university faculty members were extracted and the model was designed. The designed model for validation was provided to the interviewees and 12 of them provided their opinions ( model validity).

Based on the research findings, the most important dimensions and components of quality management of research activities, including dimension of )cultural / value, communication / information, laws, equipment, barriers, financial resources and specialization( dimension of policies and missions )policies, goals and mission( after planning )Identifying issues and needs, setting goals, formulating a plan, preparing the program for operation, joint activities and cooperation, assigning tasks and tasks( dimension of support-incentive systems, )creating incentives, guidance and counseling, reducing conflicts Educational and executive, empowerment and empowerment and ethics( and then monitoring and evaluation is )the correction of research indicators and processes, monitoring the research process, identifying and analyzing the effectiveness of research, paying attention to the application of research and providing feedback .Also, the statistical study showed that the model has sufficient and appropriate validity in the opinion of experts in the field of research quality in universities. To improve the quality of research activities of university faculty members, following and implementing this model will be helpful.

The aim of this study was to investigate the strategic plan of Urmia University in 2019.

This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of the study was all 620 faculty members of Urmia University, and 217 people were selected by using Morgan table. The Sampling method was convenient method. The used instrument is a researcher-made strategic plan evaluation questionnaire. The validity of this questionnaire was confirmed using content validity and the construct validity was confirmed using LISREL software. The reliability of the questionnaire was 0.904 using Cronbach’s alpha.

The general condition of the strategic plan of Urmia University and its components are lower than the hypothetical average of the society. The results also showed the inequality of the mean rankings of the research variables. The component of "formulating values and visualizing the desired condition" has the highest average rank and the component of "strategic foresight" has the lowest average rank in the strategic plan of Urmia University.

The general condition of the strategic plan of Urmia University was evaluated at a relatively favorable level. Also, the level of desirability of the component "review of the current situation" and the component of "strategic foresight" was unfavorable and other components were considered relatively desirable.

The purpose of this study was to design and develop a model to review the curriculum of higher education in the doctoral program.

For this purpose, qualitative research and content analysis method have been used. A semi-structured interview was used to collect data. The statistical population of the research was curriculum experts and experienced people in this field, from which 15 people were purposefully selected as research participants by chain method. The number of participants was based on the researcher's information saturation.

 The results of the research in the section of important elements in the review of curricula include 6 main themes, namely policies, objectives, content, teaching-learning methods, evaluation methods and the type of course presentation.

The results indicate that the main components of the curriculum review model include 5 main themes, namely attention to the process-oriented curriculum review, comprehensiveness in curriculum review, engaging stakeholders, avoiding centralism and emphasizing the role Evaluation in The curriculum review process.

Evaluating the quality of selected majors of university students is one of the issues of interest to educational researchers. In this regard, the purpose of this study was to assess the quality of the undergraduate curriculum in textile engineering in Yazd University, based on the Kano model.

A descriptive-survey method was used. The statistical population of the study included all seniors of the Faculty of Textile Engineering of Yazd University (75) in the academic year of 2018-2019 and the research sample was selected by using total population sampling. The research means included three questionnaires of expectations, perceptions and Kano model in determining the quality of the academic major. The formal and content validity of the questionnaires were determined by receiving the opinions of six professors from Yazd University. Also, the reliability of the instruments was determined by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0/7, which is desirable for different structures of the questionnaires. Data were analyzed at both descriptive and inferential levels in the form of Friedman test in SPSS software

The results showed that the quality of the textile engineering major in terms of content, structure and characteristics of the professors is at a relatively high level, and in terms of educational facilities is at a poor level. Also, comparing students' expectations and their perceptions of the current situation showed that there is a significant difference between their expectations and perceptions. In addition, the results of the analysis of the Kano model showed that the greatest need of students in academic major is 'one-dimensional needs' and then 'mandatory needs'.

Based on the research findings, the need to pay attention to improving the quality of the textile engineering curriculum through the optimal development of facilities and also to meet the one-dimensional needs of students is suggested.

The survival of organizations in the present age is very different from the past. In the current situation, an organization is able to survive and compete with others that can adapt to environmental changes and have the flexibility in unpredictable and changing conditions. This important thing is achieved when a new solution is presented and it can undoubtedly be found in the agility of organizations. The present article seeks to identify, rank and introduce the criteria of agility of Islamic Azad University units to the scientific community.

The present research is methodological, descriptive and survey. The statistical population in this study is the experts of the Islamic Azad University of Tehran in 1399. The statistical sample of the research includes 15 experts. The data collection tool in this study is a pairwise comparison questionnaire. This research was performed using fuzzy AHP hierarchical analysis method. The software used was Expert choice.

The factors considered were: information technology, virtual partnership and collaboration, continuous improvement, formation of knowledge-based organization and agile workforce, as well as identified criteria including: improving accountability, readiness to face change, reducing the level of regulation, easy knowledge transfer and Accelerate processes.

The ranking results showed agile workforce with weight (0.3833), virtual partnership and cooperation with weight (0.2959), information technology with weight (0.1892), formation of knowledge-based organization with weight (0.1644)) And continuous improvement with weight (0.1486) were ranked first to fifth.

The aim of this study was to identify the commercialization achievements of academic research findings in the field of sport.

The present research was exploratory-applied in terms of purpose, and field-library in terms of data collection place. The statistical population of the study was the Sports Science faculty members, university entrepreneurs, university inventors, and graduate students in the field of sports. Sampling In this study, 10 people were considered for each variable, and finally, 235 correct questionnaires were returned. The instrument used in this study was a researcher-made questionnaire. Reliability (Cronbach's Alpha and Composite Reliability), convergent validity, and divergent validity of the questionnaire were reviewed and confirmed by 10 sports management experts after confirming the content validity. To assess the validity and reliability of the questionnaire and to analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics in the form of SPSS24 and Smart PLS3 software were used.

The results showed that commercialization achievements were classified into three components: individual, organizational and professional achievement.

Therefore, awareness of the achievements of commercialization of academic research will not only encourage researchers to commercialize their research but will also make stakeholders invest in the commercialization of academic research.