Performance Assessment of Graduates from a User's Perspective (In Case Study of a Military University)

This study aimed to "assess the performance of graduates of a military university". In this applied and descriptive-survey study, 134 participants selected from among 240 users of the university (consisting of commanders of operational and educational battalions and parallel units) who have direct contact with university graduates through random cluster sampling. The data collection tool is a graduates' abilities assessment questionnaire. This questionnaire is based on Rashidzadeh's (1391) model that includes six dimensions of graduates' abilities in scientific-cognitive, spiritual, military-educational, social, intellectual and physical areas from the perspective of users. Validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and its reliability was 0.86 using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. For fitting the model, LISREL software was used; and for analyzing the questions, Descriptive statistics including frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation, and inferential statistics including one-way student t-test and Friedman test were used by SPSS software. The results of this research show that the performance of university graduates is significantly higher than the average and in a favorable situation. Also, the ranking of functional six-dimension abilities showed that the physical abilities and scientific-cognitive abilities have the highest and lowest rank among the abilities of their performance indicators, respectively.