Analysis of Effective Components on Educational Transformative in Agricultural Higher Education System in Iran

The purpose of this study was to analysis of effective components on educational transformative in agricultural higher education system In order to identify effective components on educational transformative, meta-synthesis method was used and 71 components were identified. For analyzing of data, factor analysis was used. Target population of this study was 358 faculty members in three agricultural college Tarbiat Modares University, Shiraz and Tehran Universities and 185 faculty members were selected by randomly stratified sample and finally 166questionnaires was collected. The instrument was assessed for face and content validities by a panel of faculty members in agricultural college of Tehran, Tarbiat Modares University and institution of research and planning of higher education. Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient Value of questionnaire was 0.91. Results of factor analysis cause in selecting 6 factors. These factors are leadership, educational competence, quality in higher education, education and teaching, context and strategies. This factors could explain about 52 percent of the variations of effective components on educational transformative.