Educational Needs of Tehran Citizens towards the Earthquake

This research seeks to explain the educational needs of citizens based on the main purpose of "identifying and prioritizing the educational needs of people in Tehran towards earthquake. This research is of survey type and for determining of educational needs the feasibility study method has been used based on the three-dimensional model of Kaufman, Gorican and Johnson. The statistical population of the study is the population of Tehran city (based on the statistics of 2006), amount to 7707520. Out of them, 750 people have been selected as a sample including 700 citizens in classified random method from five regions of the North, South, East and West and also the Center of Tehran and 50 experts and staffs in a non-probable purposeful method for the research. Referring to the library sources and searching in internet websites related to the civil defense, researchers extracted a relatively full list of the examples of civil defense to be prepared against the earthquake in Tehran city. Using the self-made questionnaire in Likert scale (four-options), the necessary data from the statistical samples were collected. The data analysis for feasibility study, comparing the views among the groups and prioritization of the needs, has been performed; using SPSS software and Freedman test. The general prioritization among the three mentioned sections has specified that the educational needs related to skills of vulnerability reduction before the occurrence of earthquake is in the first priority. In addition, comparison of the educational needs by population specifications (gender, group, rate of education and area of residency) in this research shows that the mentioned specifications do not have any impact on individuals’ educational needs