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The aim of current research is to compare the Iran's educational upstream documents and international documents in order to identify the components of teachers ranking and explanation of its effective mechanism in the formulating stage of teacher ranking system in Iran. In this comparative study, documentary method with Bereday approach has been used for collection and analysis of data respectively. Research findings revealed that the similarities of documents have been in three components of "goals", "policies" and "strategies". In addition, their differences have been in four components of "principles and values", "career path structure", "scope of action" as well as "prediction of possible challenges"; which "prediction of possible challenges" have not been seen in the upstream documents of Iran's educational system. In order to enhance effectiveness of Iran's teacher ranking mechanism, it is suggested that the goals, policies and strategies of this system should be clearly and precisely determined with regard to the real needs of the society and its common cultural values - through consensus and creating common understanding and values. Also, considering the professional nature of the duties of school administrators, defining a different career path structure from teachers gives legitimacy to this issue. In addition, in order to predict the expected consequences and results related to the goals, it seems necessary to generalize the scope of inclusion and review the definition of school and teacher in the upstream documents of the Iranian educational system.

The main goal of this study is to construct and analyze the Factor structure of the designed questionnaire to assess the general competency of the professional higher education managers (based on the approval of the Supreme Administrative Council). The statistical population of the study includes all managers in managerial positions at the basic level, . The sample size is estimated according to the studied objectives such as measurement model test and structural model test for 300 test group. To select the samples, several higher education centers in Tehran are randomly selected and then by referring to these centers, random sampling to is carried out. The data is used to describe the parameters and calibrate the questions using descriptive statistics, Spearman correlation, confirmatory factor analysis and various methods of item response theory. The results of confirmatory factor analysis reveal that the data fit well with the hypothesized model (9 competencies). The correlation range between different factors (competencies) is between 0.32 (between responsibility -communication skills) and 0.75 (between commitment and organizational belonging - effort and hard work). In the question theory method, the presumed unidimensionality assumption is established by the parallel analysis method for all questionnaire factors. The likelihood ratio test shows that for all factors, the generalized partial score model fits the data better. Cronbach's alpha coefficient ranged from 0.69 (organizational commitment and affiliation) to 0.82 (goal orientation and performance guidance). The findings demonstrate that this questionnaire can be used to assess the general competence of basic managers in higher education.

This paper aimed to explain relative efficiency of educational departments of Zanjan province using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique. The study used quantitative approach and a descriptive-cross sectional methodology by investigation in official documents. To determine the efficiency, using a questionnaire, viewpoints of experts about input and output variables were gathered and then the appropriate ones were seleceted by Borda technique. By using Slack method, from 14 education offices, seven offices determined as efficient and the others as inefficient. To use the findings of the research in planning and benchmarking, optimum values of each education offices were presented to be used as quantitative objectives in goal setting and planning.

Culture is one of the basic concepts of organizational behavior in macro level which has been borrowed from anthropology and organizational sociology. This concept is the result of interpretative paradigm in organization and management studies and is one of the Morgan’s organization metaphors. The purpose of this research is to identify the challenges of organizational culture in governmental sections of the Tehran city. The research strategy is survey and the research tool is a questionnaire developed by investigators based on “Robbins” model. The face validity and reliability of the model is confirmed (alpha=0.92). The level of analyze is organizational values. The statistical population is the employees of governmental organizations of the Tehran city. The sample size is 1008 which is selected by stratified sampling. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (dependent t-test) are used for data analysis. The results of research show challenges in all organizational culture components. This article ends with the explanation of research results and solutions for change regarding the new models of organizational change.

This study aimed to investigate the effect of four teaching group discussion, question and answer, presentation, and lecture on creativity, achievement motivation and academic achievement among the students. To collect the data, Hermens Achievement Motivation questionnaire, Abedi Creativity questionnaire and researcher-made Academic Achievement test were conducted among 270 students of Alborz Farhangian University who were selected based on stratified random sampling method. Data analyzed through multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), one way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Tukey test. Findings reveal that group discussion, presentation, question and answer, and lecture teaching methods, respectively, have more effect on creativity, achievement motivation and academic achievement.

In the new decade the resource of competitive advantage changed from tangible and hard assets to intangible and soft assets. Due to importance of intellectual capital and measurement of it in higher education systems practitioners of this system needs to know the main elements of intellectual capital and methods of measurement these elements. Identifying the elements of intellectual capital helps the higher education managers system to improve the managing these assets effectively and more appropriately. This research tries to examine the intellectual capital measurement methods and deliver the practical and appropriate method according to three elements of Haman capital, organizational capital and relational capital for measuring these assets. The research method was Meta Analysis. In this research we analysis the negative and positive points of intellectual capital measurement models and finally the model that relatively adequate for higher education offered. Result (s): There are different ways to measure intellectual capital, which includes strengths and weaknesses. Measurement model should be designed based on goals and the mission of higher education institutions.

Medical ethics is an interdisciplinary knowledge which increasingly developed during the last 30 years, and nowadays it becomes a part of medical student’s curriculum. Although, the quality of medical education has improved in Iran, but medical ethics teaching has not accomplished effective alteration yet. For deeper and more actual recognition of the challenges of medical ethics curriculum, we interviewed medical ethics instructors in a qualitative study. The data was collected by semi-structured interview with fourteen medical ethics instructors of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 1389 and analyzed by Mairing content analyzing approach. Results of this study shows weaknesses and challenges in medical ethics curriculum which presented under five themes: comprehensiveness of goals, composing organization, proportion of content, active teaching method, and comprehensive system of evaluation. According to this the existing weaknesses and challenges of medical ethics curriculum can be considered as important obstacles in moral development of students. Considering those challenges, can develop medical ethics curriculum and introduce new models for medical ethics teaching.

Modern medical ethics is a multi-disciplinary knowledge and nowadays is one of the elements of medical schools curriculum. Identity of medical ethics curriculum forms the sub-structural contexts and belief and value essentials of the society and we cant codify medical ethics curriculum separate of belief, cultural and value context and essentials of society. So, this study is done for deeper and real recognizing of existing ambiguities and challenges in the identity of medical ethics curriculum. This study is a qualitative research, which its data gathered by the semi-structural interview with 14 person of Tehran medical university’s medical ethics instructors in 1389, analyzing by the Mayring context analysis approach. Results of this study indicating the lack of identity in medical ethics curriculum. Contents which are explanatory of the lack of native and Islamic identity in medical ethics curriculum: 1.secular medical ethics 2.Islamic ethics system 3.medical ethics scope. In fact the missing ring of medical ethics curriculum is lacking of Islamic and native identity and because of this reason the medical ethics topics is placed in medical ethics curriculum sparsely and without any specific basis and teaching of medical ethics always is faced with confusion and being the promoter of secular culture.

Since a long time ago, ethics was an inseparable part of medicine. From the view point of Islam, ethics in medicine extent _ in respect of the place of medicine which has relation to the dignity and importance of keeping the humanistic soul _ has two fold importance.Amis: The purpose of this article, explaining the principles of Islamic ethics and apply these principles in the medical profession and an attempt to provide a framework of characteristics of the Islamic Medical Ethics.Means and Ways: This investigation is a library study which proceed with deep study of related contexts to the principles and essentials of anthropology and rating of Islamic ethics. whatever which recognized as essentials of Islamic medical ethics, consist of the essentials of anthropology, and rating and is a description of this matter that in Islamic medical ethics how describe humane and consider what kinds of entity ‘s capacities and possibilities for him and determine which aims for humane which can’t imagine anything more valued than it. In this study the principles of Islamic ethics, is presented in four domains: Principles associated with God,Principles associated with self,Principles associated with community, Related principles of nature. In this article, the dimensions of these principles is mentioned.Discussion and In the research of Islamic ethics, we must meantime the revision of medical ethics, we should take a good look at the precedent of the civilization of Islamic Iran and it is necessary to avail the field of a fundamental change by a new look and with partake of last scientific yield and biotechnology in the medical ethics’ field and with reliance on principles and essentials of Islamic ethics. In this discourse proceed with this subject in detail.

Modern medical ethics is considered as a multi-disciplinary knowledge and is seen as a part of medical school''s curriculum nowadays. Identity of medical ethics curriculum is formed by the sub-structural contexts of this science as well as belief and value essentials of the society and we can’t codify medical ethics curricu-lum separated from belief, culture, value context and essentials of society. So, this study was performed for deeper and real recognition of existing ambiguities and challenges in the identity of medical ethics curricu lum. This study is a qualitative research, which its data was gathered through making a semi-structural inter-view with 14 people of Tehran medical universities’ Medical Ethics instructors in 1389, analyzed by the “Mayring” context analysis approach. Results of this study indicate the lack of identity in medical ethics cur-riculum. Contents implicating on the lack of native and Islamic identity in medical ethics curriculum are men-tioned as:1. Secular medical ethics
2. Islamic ethics system
3. Medical ethics domain
In fact the lost ring of medical ethics curriculum is lacking of an Islamic and native identity and because of this , the medical ethics topics placed in medical ethics curriculum without any specific base of teaching in this regard so, it seems we always face to confusion and going to promote the secular culture.