نشریه نامه آموزش عالی
پیاپی 62 (تابستان 1402)

Faculty development in modern universities is considered one of the basic pillars of the development of universities, considering the very rapid changes in the technological fields. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to know the Faculty development and knowledge management in Shahid Beheshti University and how these two variables are related.

This research was conducted by survey method. The statistical population of this study consists of 806 full-time faculty members of Shahid Beheshti University. The sample size was determined to be 125 people.

Findings indicate that the average score of the two main variables of the research with 2.7 and 2.8 in the faculty development and knowledge management, respectively, is lower than the average of the scale (number 3) and is at an unfavorable level in terms of rank. The result of one-sample t-test showed that this result is also confirmed in the statistical community. The focal correlation coefficient test between the two variables is 71%, which confirms the intensity of the correlation between the two variables at a strong level.

As a result, both knowledge management and faculty development are in poor condition and require specific strategy and programs.

The aim of the current research is to identify the key scenarios for the future of international scientific cooperation in Iran's public universities.

The method of the current research is mixed exploratory. In the first part of the research, the causal layer analysis method was used. The study population was the public universities of the Ministry of Science. Using the purposeful sampling method, 18 semi-structured interviews were conducted with experts in this field. Then, in the quantitative part of the research, to determine the weight of each of the uncertainties identified in the qualitative part of the research, in order to identify the input criteria of the scenarios, a researcher-made questionnaire was used. Cronbach's alpha method was used to determine the reliability of the questionnaire, and in this research, the rate of 0.92% was obtained, which indicates its acceptable stability and reliability. The statistical sample of the quantitative part of the current research was 24 people from the field of higher education in the state universities of the country, whose field of scientific and executive activity was the internationalization of higher education, who were selected by purposeful sampling. Consensus and importance indices were also used to analyze the collected data.

After analyzing the research data, four scenarios: 1. the growth and prosperity of the university; 2. The burning of university opportunities; 3. Wounding of the spirit of the university and 4. Darkness and silence of the university were identified as the central scenarios of the future of international scientific cooperation in the country's public universities.

Considering the results of the research, developing a comprehensive and codified program to strengthen international scientific cooperation, deepening international cooperation to the decision-making and executive levels of the university, and establishing international offices of higher education in different countries of the world in order to It seems necessary to expand international scientific cooperation in the future.

The purpose of this research was to understand the lived experiences of Farhangian University faculty members regarding effective teaching in the learning management system.The current qualitative research was conducted with a phenomenological approach. data were collected using targeted sampling and in-depth semi-structured interviews with twelve faculty members of Farhangian University active in the lms system academic year 2021-2022 and analyzed based on the Colaizzi model. After extracting and thematic categorizing, effective teaching was identified in four main themes and fourteen sub-themes. The principles of effective teaching in the theme of technological principles included the selection of technology-oriented teaching strategies, electronic lesson plans, providing appropriate assignments and providing feedback in the system and pedagogical principles including teacher-student interaction, students' participation with each other, attention to individual differences and research-oriented teaching. Barriers to effective teaching in the context of technological barriers included ineffectiveness for some courses, lack of ICT experts, limited access to the Internet, and lack of infrastructure and pedagogical barriers included lack of required competencies and low validity of evaluation results.Considering the nascent nature of teaching in the LMS, effective teaching is realized when the necessary competences, attitudes and knowledge regarding effective teaching are developed in the professors.

The present research has been carried out to explain the factors affecting the compliance of graduate students with research ethics.

The current research was a descriptive-survey type of research. The studied population included all Allameh Tabatabai University graduate students; 266 students were selected using the stratified sampling method.

The research results show that the standardized coefficients in the measurement models: in the dimension of individual factors, in the group of women, personality, and the group of men, motivation had the highest factor load. In the model of environmental factors inside the university, both indicators have close factor loadings in the group of women and men. Finally, research and writing in the non-Persian language have the highest factor load in the model for measuring environmental factors outside the university in the group of men and women. Structural standardized coefficients also showed environmental factors outside the university in the whole sample and the group of women, and in the group of men, individual elements with the highest factor load on research ethics.

Visual literacy is the ability to identify information needs, as well as to search & find information, interpret and analyze the information presented in the form of visual materials and media. This study was aimed to survey the status of Visual literacy of faculty members of the Islamic Azad University of Hamedan.

This is a descriptive survey. Statistical population includes all faculty members of Hamedan Islamic Azad University; i.e. 245, out of whom 148 people were chosen using Morgan and Kerjsi table with simple random method. The measurement tool was a 24-item researcher-made questionnaire. The content validity method was Face validity and Cronbach's alpha test (0.941) was used for reliability.

Faculty members have enough visual literacy skills (nearly 69.4 %). Moreover, they show visual concept: 72.4 %, access and exploring: 69.8 % , interpretation of meanings: 6.70 %, image evaluation: 68.2 %, effective use of images: 68.4 %, design and create images: 66% and scientific ethics :72/6 %.

Scientific ethics in visual literacy was top priority for faculty members, then come discovery, access and exploration, assessing the effective use of images, and design and creation of images respectively.

According to researches, various factors can affect the results of students' evaluations of professors' teaching. The main goal was to test the hypothesis that gender bias can affect the results of students' evaluations of professors' teaching. The first statistical population of the research is composed of 769 lecturers who have taught as professors at Kashan University for the past six semesters. For sampling, in addition to using the cluster method, the necessary conditionings were made according to the design and purpose of the research, and finally a sample of 443 professors was obtained. According to the fact that 3769 students had evaluated these professors during six semesters, finally a sample containing 23285 data lines was obtained. The validity of the evaluation form was also checked by confirmatory factor analysis. The findings showed that there are two types of gender bias in all the evaluation components of teaching quality. First, compared to female students who had a female professor, male students who had male professors evaluated their professors more poorly in all three components of "scientific mastery and expressiveness", "effective lesson and class management" and "student motivation and respect" which shows the bias of male students against male professors.