فصلنامه پژوهش و برنامه ریزی در آموزش عالی
سال دوازدهم شماره 3 (پیاپی 41، پاییز 1385)

Empowering the faculty members of the University of Tehran in line with professional development and sustainable university progress as a system related to the conventional university's functions (teaching, research and outreach), is an important and considerable process. Improving the Sabbatical leaves of faculty members as a continuing process, require assessment of outcomes and recognization of influencing factors in comprehensive approach. Getting feedback from faculty members for integrating their perspectives in planning processes as a participatory and accountable action-reaction- interaction chains, is main objective of this research. Methodologically, this research is based on surveying research from quantitative research paradigm based on questionnaire as research tool. Results obtained from surveying research with a selected sample of faculty members of the University of Tehran is analyzed and submitted based on factor analyzing technique by SPSS software. According to findings of analyzing the factors influencing on improving the sabbatical leaves of faculty members, four components were extracted. The first factor called the prerequisite factor explained 28/3% of the total variance. The second factor called the supportive services factor explained 23/2% of the variances. The third and forth factors called cultural and family harmony and professional skills factors respectively explained 22/3% and 10/4% of the variances. In conclusion, based on obtained findings, some appropriate mechanisms are suggested for improving the sabbatical leaves of faculty members.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between cognitive styles and leadership styles among presidents of universities and institutions of higher education in Tehran. 30 presidents in Tehran and 102 raters (subordination of presidents) response to Cognitive Style Index CSI and third edition of multifactor leadership questionnaire, MLQ (Leader and rater version) has been used. Collected data is analyzed taking into consideration both descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage and mean) and Pearson correlation. The result of this study indicates the existence of a meaningful and positive correlation between intuitive cognitive style and idealized influence (transformational leadership), analytical cognitive style and contingent rewards (transactional leadership). It also displays a negative meaningful relationship between analytical cognitive style and laizess-fair leadership style.

This research article strives to answer a principle question i.e. how much have, basically, religion course been successful in university according to students’ opinion? A sample of 2100 students from state and Azad Universities in 8 provinces were selected by stratified random sampling. Result of this describable survey shows more than %80 of the students confirm that these credits themselves must be presented but their contents and method of teaching need to be improved.

In order to compare the academic achievement of post- graduate students admitted to Faragir System with those through National Entrance Examination (NEE) at Payam-e Noor University, a questionnaire including 15 questions was prepared. The questionnaire was on the basis of factors such as: - Individual factors (age, gender, marital status) - Educational factors (academic course) - Occupational factors (occupational status) The necessary information has been collected from educational file of the students. The research population consists of 1172 students admitted through NEE at Tehran, Isfahan and Tabriz Payam-e Noor Universities and 253 students admitted in Faragir System. The sample has been chosen randomly from 233 students admitted through NEE and 115 students admitted through Faragir System. The collected information has been analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical methods with the use of SPSS software. The findings in the present research indicate that the academic achievement of post- graduate students of Faragir System is more than NEE students and the married, employed, Humanities post- graduate students of Faragir System had more academic achievements than NEE. Furthermore, the results of this research show that there is no significant difference between the academic achievement of post – graduate students majoring in basic science and that of the unemployed (house keepers) single students at the same sector at both systems. Moreover, regarding variables of age and gender there is no significant difference between post- graduate students admitted at Faragir System and post- graduate students admitted through NEE system.

This paper presents the results of a heuristic-based user interface evaluation of Iranian Information & Documentation Dissertations Database. Five library and information specialists were used as evaluators in two different stages of the research. At the first stage, they are asked to review each element of the interface and judge its compliance with a checklist principles; and at the second stage, they were asked to rate the severity of each problem found at the first stage. The results of the study indicate that 35.63 percent of the checklist principles were observed. In addition, among seven areas covered by the checklist, bibliographic information, with considering 100 percent of principles, stands at the top; and operational control with 10 percent is at the bottom. Furthermore, in a 0 to 4 rating scale, the highest and the lowest severity rating of difficulties belong to access points (3.71) and screen display (2.50) respectively. The total severity rating of all areas came to 3.17. The results also demonstrated that there are, not only numerous problems in the user interface of this database, but also most of them (about 3/4) are major and catastrophic problems.

Sport marketing as an influential factor in social and economic developments plays an important role in the economy of countries with its direct and indirect effects. Marketing of sport goods & services are important and effective responsibility of sport organizations. If this responsibility is fulfilled properly, collegiate sport services & good production will develop nationally and internationally. The general purpose of this research is the comparative study of procedures of collegiate sport marketing in Iran and Turkey. To achieve this goal, following detailed points are studied: 1- Gross domestic product (GDP) and share of sport industry. 2- Collegiate sport services’ demand & supply awareness. 3-Advertising & marketing relationship in sport services & good production. 4- Demography based study on sport services and good provider’s location. 5- The role of media, sport fans, and financial sponsors in sport marketing. This is a descriptive – longitudinal research. The data is collected through. interviews, library study, and observation. The study was done in Turkey in its two universities (Hajat tapeh and Gazi) from March 20, 2005 to December 20, 2005. A comparative study of the two countries performance leads us to these in Turkey the GDP of sport’s part (2003-4) was about 2856 billion Rialls which is about 39 percent of total GDP of the country. If the inflation rate is taken into account, Turkey had the growth about 64.72 percent (889 billion rialls) more than Iran. On the other hand, it is estimated that winter Olympic in 2010, will provide $ 4.1-6.5 billion GDP, one thousand job opportunities, and $969-1527 million taxes. The study of income sources of Olympics with respect to income and also advertising factors; TV broadcasting and then financial sponsors had the rank. After them, ticket sales agents, issuing authorizations, stamps and other factors were the sources of income. Case study of these factors showed that from Atlantic Olympics in 1996 till 2000, television broad casting rights provided 33-50 percent of the income for the games.

Since last twenty years, the National Entrance examination (NEE) has been a significant criterion for evaluation of secondary school students to get admitted into higher education in Iran. The country’s entire involvement in taking this annual test indicates its importance. The whole concern of the society on this outcomes of the test imposes the necessity of high standards in administering it as a stake test. This research is an introductory study on the present standards and the administration on the basis of participants’ satisfaction assessment in NEE. The Sample includes 2531 individuals (1643 females and 888 males) who took part the exam in Tehran. The statistical method for data analysis in this survey is Factor Analysis. The findings indicate that seven domains affected the satisfaction of test takers and provide the basic factors to standard testing administration. These factors are: Noise and any disturber of the testing session, Environmental conditions, Equipments to test takers, Instructions and guidance before and during the testing, Test difficulty and participants readiness. These factors are important reference for professional test developers, policymakers, administrators and users in any test and assessment setting.