Designing and Validating Educational Organization Culture Questionnaire (EOCQ) A Case Study of Birjand's Education Center

This study aims at designing and validating educational centers’organizational culture.
Methodology and Instrument: Primary 66 questionnaire statements were designed according to theoretical studies of educational centers’ organizational culture pattern obtained qualitatively by the researcher. In experimental step, five statements were omitted because of lacking correlational coefficient (0.2). Finally, the questionnaire consisting of 66 statements was administered among population including 189 personnel of South Khorasan Education Center. Factorial Analysis wasjustified by KMO=0.798 and Bartlet Test’s significant results (P=0.0001). Questionnaire reliability was tested through internal homogeneity and Crounbach Alfaestimationthrough SPSS software. Good fitness of questionnaire structure and its sub-components were carried through estimating verifying factorial analysis coefficients through AMOUS software (18th version). Finally, statements’ correlational coefficient of overall questionnaire and factorial coefficients were taken as the omission criteria of inappropriate statements. Moreover, five statements with correlational coefficient less than 0.4 and two related to time index were also omitted because of the decrease in the number of indexstatements and lack of factorial analysisappropriacy. As indicated by the results, a questionnaire consisting of 54 statements and Crounbach Alfa of 0.977 is appropriately reliable. Verifying factorial analysis represents good questionnaire structure fitness and final pattern (GFI=0.895, RMSEA=0.098).