نشریه نامه آموزش عالی
پیاپی 15 (پاییز 1390)

Nowadays, academic institutions and universities are in need of an integrative discipline for studying, researching and learning about the knowledge assets. Successful educational institutions are those that constantly create new knowledge and disseminate it widely through their systems. Today’s academic environment is facing many demands and changes. Hence, applying a method for creating knowledge and its implementation is essential in order to fulfill the educational objectives and get maximum benefits. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is examining and evaluating knowledge management in academic institutions. The nature of the research is descriptive and also it is an applied survey as far as objective is concerned. In this paper, status of knowledge management in three faculties of Management will be evaluated. Populations of this research are faculty members from faculty of management in Yazd, Tarbiat Modarres and Tehran universities. Data analysis is performed using SPSS and Excel software. T-test results showed that the condition of knowledge management in Tehran, Tarbiat Modarres and Yazd University is undesirable and the condition of some of their components is desirable.

One of the basics of development in each society is success in education and training in different areas of proficiency and providing equal opportunities for equal access to these resources. Hence, it has been tried to investigate the effect of three factors of economy, society and culture which can have influence on success of students in university entrance exam. The success in science education is one of the main pillars of development of a society, which includes, in turn, providing equal opportunities for all citizens to access the educational resources of different professional fields. The purpose of this study is to determine how the cultural, social and economic situations of families affect on the success of their children in University Entrance Exam. In this regard, the cultural, social and economic capitals of the applicants’ families are considered as independent variables. The method of research is survey with the technique of questionnaire. Sample was electronic students of University of Tehran and computer science students of Sanjesh institution in year 1388. Results suggest solidarity is weak and average among cultural and social capitals and economy, respectively. Based on the results of the survey, it can be concluded that the increase of cultural, social and economic capitals of the families of applicants of entering the universities and higher education institutions would increase the applicants’ chance of success.

The aim of this study was to assess student's organizational belonging and commitment based on demographic factors at Shiraz University. The target population included 2,708 undergraduate and graduate students who entered in 2009. Using stratified cluster sampling 337 participants were selected and were given Demiray's (2008) organizational belonging and commitment questionnaire. Data were analyzed both descriptively and inferentially. Results showed: The rate of organizational belonging and commitment of Shiraz University's students is less than optimal level of adequacy (75%) and higher than the minimum acceptable level (50%). Women have higher average of organizational belonging and commitment in comparison with men. The engineering students and basic sciences students have the highest and lowest means of organizational belonging and commitment, respectively; but the difference is not significant. Humanities Students have the highest rate of organizational belonging and commitment to their university whereas engineering students have the lowest. The graduate student's level of organizational belonging and commitment is significantly more than the undergraduates.

Webometrics serves as the utmost information resource in modern era which has introduced new changes to the communication world and has been developed in order to be used in scientific contexts. Business engines are main tools for recognizing such information. In fact, web is a complex group of all types of information which is produced by different people and is searched by different users. From the mid-1990th, there have been lots of efforts in this area to investigate the Webometric identity and features based on info metric methods for its contents, connection structure and search engines. Universities’ webometric scale factors are similar to journals’ impact factors. Webometric features are responsible for counting the number of referrals to web pages. In fact, they have been defined to show universities’ and educational institutions’ obligation to advertise and spread the web. The aim of this paper is to evaluate webometric scale factors in universities of Tehran, Esfahan, TarbyatModares, Alzahra, Mazandaran, Guilan, Yazd, Araak and Razi. Study population includes all the members of department of selected universities. Employing a classified random sampling, the data was collected through the distribution of a questionnaire among the 355 persons of the academic staffs of selected universities. SPSS16.0 is used for statistical analysis. The results of research show that the situation of selected universities is unsuitable based on the factors of Webometric scale.

The purpose of the present research was to determine and compare the differences between the rate of responses to paper and online evaluations of the teaching quality of faculty members and their competence in three semesters in Isfahan University. The research was of longitudinal survey and the statistical social consisted of all students and faculty members in Isfahan University. The statistical sample of students included 11673 individuals (8327 participants in paper evaluation and 3346 participants in online evaluation). The statistical sample of the faculty members included 259 individuals. Regarding the nature of the research, the faculty members who were evaluated simultaneously by both methods were only selected. The research tool was the evaluation questionnaire of teaching quality, which was made available for the students both in paper and online form. The results from the research indicated that during the research, the rate of responses to the online evaluation was increasing with a growth nearly equal to that of paper evaluation. The results also indicated that the necessary adequacy in the rate of responses to online evaluation can be reached by providing appropriate backgrounds.

This study aims to analyze and investigate the perspective, mission and factors influencing executive success of approaching plan of non-public (nonprofit) higher education institutes in Iran. The population of this study includes professors and managers of 58 institutes and non-public (nonprofit) universities having activity in the country. The samples of this study based on Morgan’s table include 108 professors and managers. The test tools include 2 questionnaires made by author, one is open response and another one is close response. The internal validity has been verified based on the view of related authorities and its reliability was confirmed by cronbakh Alpha test, 0.86. Samples were selected quota randomly for open response and randomly for close response questionnaires. For analyzing the data, we employed descriptive statistics features such as abundance, percentage, graph and table. Results deals with showing that managers and faculty members of universities and educational institutions concede on profit universities are successful in terms of perspective (mean: 3.56) and fulfilling missions (mean: 4.67). These institutions have performed above average as far as achieving plans are concerned. Based upon this, codification, performance and supervision of achieving plans in universities and educational institutions lay a ground for promoting their performance quality.

The aim of the present study is to investigate electronic and nonelectronic training on academic creativity and progress of students in Payam-e Noor University. Considering test and control groups of performing pre and post tests, the research method was experimental. Statistical population includes all students of the second semester of non-electronic learning system(non-present)and control group includes all students of the second semester of non-electronic learning system(semi-present) in academic year 2007-2008 in Tehran Payam-e-Noor University. Statistical sample included348 individuals from which 174 electronic students and 174 non-electronic (semipresent) students were selected using random sampling method from three fields of Information Technology, Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Measuring tool was Abedi Innovation Questionaire (1372) and calculation of average grades of final examination of students within the second semester of academic year 2007-2008.In order to analysis the data and in order to control the effect of records in pre-tests& post-tests of both groups, we used covariance and independent t test. Results suggest that there is a significant difference between post-test of creativity scores of electronic and non-electronic students. Moreover, there is a significant difference between final grades and academic progress (average) of electronic and non-electronic students. (p< 0.05) F 0.05 shows significant difference between post test creativity scores of male and female students of electronic and non-electronic training in Payam-e Noor University.