جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « اعضای هیات علمی » در نشریات گروه « علوم تربیتی »

The purpose of the present research was to developing and validating the competency model of the faculty members of Farhangian University upon upstream documents.

This research has been conducted in terms of applied p urpose and mixed research method, qualitatively and quantitatively. The field of research in the qualitative part included the document of the fundamental transformation of education, the statement of the second step of the Islamic revolution and the regulation of the promotion of Farhangian University, which was analyzed in the form of a census as a sample. In the quantitative part, the statistical population was formed by the professors of Farhangian University of East Azarbaijan Province in 1402 in the number of 260 people, based on Morgan's table, the sample size was estimated to be 152 people and they were selected using available sampling method. The research tool is a 10-point scale questionnaire based on upstream documents. In order to analyze qualitative data using thematic analysis method, and to analyze quantitative data from single-sample T-tests, factor analysis using AMOS software was used for structural modeling and fit indices.

The findings of the research showed that the competency model of Farhangian University faculty members has 2 comprehensive themes of professional and basic competencies in the form of 6 educational and research dimensions, cultural and social, attitudinal, jihadist and revolutionary, ethics and spirituality, personality traits and 78 basic themes.

The results of this research can be used as a basis for creating desirable changes in measuring and improving competencies, self-development programs, professional development programs, and the development of continuous professional commitment of Farhangian University faculty members. Which will lead to the excellence of the country's teacher training system.

empowerment, faculty members, Allameh

Organizational silence, foundational data theory

Discipline of employees is a traditional concept of management that has continued in postmodern management approaches. There is no doubt that achieving the goals of work discipline in today's era requires a fundamental revision. In this regard, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting and validating the discipline model of academic staff members. From the point of view of the purpose of this research, it is a basic research that was conducted with a mixed method. Also, in terms of the method and time frame of data collection, it is a survey-cross-sectional research. The statistical population of the qualitative section includes 17 experimental and theoretical experts in the field of study. In the quantitative section, the viewpoint of 70 faculty members has been used. The data collection tool is a semi-structured interview and a researcher-made questionnaire. For validation in the qualitative part of the research, the Holstein coefficient was used and calculated. The rate of agreement between the two coders between 10 and 20 percent of the data has been obtained in this method as 0.717, which is higher than 0.6, so the validity of the qualitative analysis of the research is confirmed. In order to validate the research questionnaire, content validity was also used and its validity was confirmed. The validity of the questionnaire was investigated with three methods of construct validity, convergent validity and divergent validity. The value of convergent validity for all research components was greater than 0.5. Also, the combined reliability and Cronbach's alpha of all research components were greater than 0.7 and the validity and reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed. Qualitative content analysis, structural-interpretive modeling and partial least squares were used for data analysis. The results showed that management behavior and work environment have a high power of influence and influence organizational climate and organizational justice through discipline training. These factors also significantly strengthen the culture of discipline in the organization. Finally, through the institutionalization of discipline culture, employee discipline can be increased.

Educational justice is legally guaranteed for everyone without any discrimination, and governments are obliged to support educational justice and put it into practice. This issue has also been reflected in Iran's laws. The present research method is descriptive-correlational of structural equation type. The statistical population of the qualitative research is the elite teaching and research faculty members who were selected through interviews from 30 faculty members of Islamic Azad University branches in Mazandaran province. The quantitative part of the research was conducted using a researcher-made questionnaire administered to 280 people. SPSS 26 and PLS 3 were used for analysis. Using the coding method of qualitative content analysis based on interviews, identification and classification were done. Using structural equation modeling, the effectiveness weights have been obtained. The results showed that all the components of educational justice were identified and their significance was confirmed in the study, and the model of educational justice in Iranian law was explained by examining the themes and concepts. Also, the results show that the justice of education in Iran's legal system is not flawless but requires careful review and modification

The purpose of this study is to identify and prioritize the components of general human capital development of university faculty members.

To do this, a mixed method by qualitative-quantitative was used. The statistical population included all faculty members of universities and research institutes in Tehran, 13 of whom were selected through purpose sampling. Data obtained from semi-structured interviews with experts were analyzed by inductive content analysis and three-stage coding. Participant members' control method and peer feedback were used to ensure credibility. Also, to ensure reliability, the agreement method between the coders and Cohen's Kappa test were used. In the quantitative part, Shannon entropy method was used to determine the importance and priority of the obtained dimensions and components.

The results of the qualitative part of the research show 106 key indicators, and 17 axial dimensions in the form of five main components of general human capital development of faculty members, including; Improvement in the extent and appropriateness of cognitive competencies, improvement in the extent and appropriateness of meta cognitive competencies, improvement in the extent and appropriateness of bio-emotional competencies, improvement in the extent and appropriateness of communication-social competencies and improvement in the extent and appropriateness of Cultural and spiritual education competencies, were categorized and presented. Based on the results of Shannon entropy test, respectively, the main components of improvement in the amount and appropriateness of cognitive competencies, improvement in the extent and appropriateness of communication-social competencies, improvement in the extent and appropriateness of meta cognitive competencies, improvement in the extent and appropriateness of Bio-emotional competencies, and improvement in the extent and appropriateness of cultural and spiritual education competencies, were the first to fifth priorities in the development of the general human capital of the faculty members. Also, the component of cognitive human capital development had the highest priority and the component of cultural and spiritual education human capital development had the lowest priority. Theoretical framework of general human capital development of faculty members in the present study provides a suitable scientific tool for planning the human capital development of faculty members. In the end, based on the research achievements, appropriate suggestions were presented.

Visual literacy is the ability to identify information needs, as well as to search & find information, interpret and analyze the information presented in the form of visual materials and media. This study was aimed to survey the status of Visual literacy of faculty members of the Islamic Azad University of Hamedan.

This is a descriptive survey. Statistical population includes all faculty members of Hamedan Islamic Azad University; i.e. 245, out of whom 148 people were chosen using Morgan and Kerjsi table with simple random method. The measurement tool was a 24-item researcher-made questionnaire. The content validity method was Face validity and Cronbach's alpha test (0.941) was used for reliability.

Faculty members have enough visual literacy skills (nearly 69.4 %). Moreover, they show visual concept: 72.4 %, access and exploring: 69.8 % , interpretation of meanings: 6.70 %, image evaluation: 68.2 %, effective use of images: 68.4 %, design and create images: 66% and scientific ethics :72/6 %.

Scientific ethics in visual literacy was top priority for faculty members, then come discovery, access and exploration, assessing the effective use of images, and design and creation of images respectively.

Education is a process that is influenced by various factors in this process. The instructor (professor), educable (student), official organization, rules governing education, and teaching methods are important and effective components in education. Therefore, it can be said that any progress derives from the efficient and correct educational system of societies, and this depends on a number of factors, including changing teaching practices and patterns and planning to use new and active methods. Research has shown that the most important variable in the success of learners is the quality of the educator. Because the professor has a great impact on the teaching-learning process with all his personality, scientific and educational indicators. Increasing global demand for higher education on the one hand and paradigm changes in the health, economic and technology fields and the emergence of macro tendencies on the other hand has distance education from its traditional and ordinary form and has made it a coercion from choice. Distance education is the newest form of training that In addition to using comprehensive-based methods of electronic tools or web -based training programs. Therefore, the efficient and correct educational system depends on several factors. Research has shown that the most important variable in the success of learners is the quality of the educators' work. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explain the views of experts on the factors affecting the quality of teaching in the faculty members the distance education. Therefore, unlike previous research, it was attempted to address the issue with a new approach and to use a paradigm model of effective factors in improving the quality of teaching in the faculty members of distanced education system. Therefore, given the limitations mentioned in previous studies, the present study,

Understanding paradigmatic tendencies and factors that are effective in the formation of such tendencies in faculty members of curriculum studies can help faculty members address the contradictions in their paradigmatic tendencies. Furthermore, it facilitates the development of paradigm-oriented teaching and research programs for faculty members, which, in turn, foster the development of curriculum studies based on a scientific and systematic process.

 Research Questions:

 Quantitative section question What are the paradigmatic tendencies of faculty members in the field of curriculum studies? Qualitative section question What factors do faculty members of curriculum studies consider being effective in forming their paradigmatic tendencies?

The present study aimed at identifying the effective factors on the paradigmatic tendencies of faculty members in the field of curriculum studies. This study adopted an explanatory sequential mixed-method design and a follow-up explanations model in two quantitative and qualitative steps. The statistical population included all Iranian state university faculty members in the field of curriculum studies. In the quantitative part, 85 faculty members were selected using simple random sampling, and a researcher-made scale was used to collect data. During this phase of the study, faculty members’ ideas germane to different aspects of ontology, anthropology, epistemology, methodology, and pedagogy were extracted. In addition, their ideas regarding the curriculum model, including goal, content, and teaching strategies, and five paradigms, including critical, interpretative, post-modern, positivist, and Islamic paradigms, were extracted. After examining the reliability and validity of the tools, data were collected. In the qualitative phase, a case study method was used, and data were collected until data saturation was reached. In line with the findings of the quantitative section, a semi-structured interview was developed and conducted with 10 of the participant faculty members.

Quantitative data analysis using Friedman’s test and repeated analysis of variances showed that curriculum studies faculty members lacked paradigmatic coherence. The results of content analysis (qualitative phase) showed that scientific and research factors, epistemological factors, and academic atmosphere were the three factors causing paradigmatic incoherence in faculty members.

The most important contribution of this study was to highlight the point that the faculty members of curriculum studies lacked coherence in their paradigmatic tendencies. This lack of coherence can adversely affect their education, research, and writing tendencies. The study also showed that academic conditions and requirements (academic atmosphere), epistemological and personality factors, and faculty members’ insufficient theoretical understanding of major paradigms in humanities and philosophy of science led to the formation of contradictory patterns in the paradigmatic tendencies of faculty members of curriculum studies. In this regard, it can be stated that these contradictions can be greatly reduced by holding training workshops for faculty members of humanities and educational sciences and developing paradigm-oriented educational and research programs for faculty members. These plans, once materialized, can orient the field of curriculum studies toward a more scientific and systematic basis

The aim of the current research was to identifying and validating the themes of development of group and organizational Qualifications in faculty members.

In the qualitative part, the phenomenological method and semi-structured interviews were used with 13 faculty members of universities and research institutes in Tehran, who were selected by the method of purposive chain sampling. The data obtained from the interview were also evaluated by thematic analysis method. In the quantitative part, using a descriptive-survey method, the data was collected using a researcher-made questionnaire taken from the qualitative part of the research from the number of 150 faculty members selected by the stratified random sampling method from 26 faculties and four campuses of the University of Tehran, and then they were analyzed using structural equation method and Shannon entropy algebraic method.

The achievement of the qualitative part of the research is the identification of the comprehensive theme of improvement in the level and appropriateness of management-leadership competencies with the dimensions of "enhancement of scientific and social scouting ability, improvement of the ability to lead multifaceted relations, improvement of understanding of organizational structure and culture, improvement of organizational knowledge and administrative management. educational unit", and the overarching theme of improvement in the level and appropriateness of leadership qualifications with the dimensions of "improving the knowledge of educational policy analysis, improving the ability to plan and develop education, improving the skill of managing administrative affairs and human resources, improving the skill of advancing financial affairs , improving the ability to administer social affairs. In the quantitative part, the achievement of the first and second order factor analysis confirmed the validity of the research model. Also, the dimension of improving the ability to guide multifaceted relations, improving the skill of understanding organizational structure and culture, and the dimension of improving the skill of promoting administrative affairs and human resources, respectively, with Shannon's entropy coefficient equal to 0.27 and 0.23, are the most important in the development of group human capital and The organization had faculty members.

Conclusions and suggestions: 

development of group and organizational Qualifications in faculty members is a different paradigm and approach to human resources before it is a stream for developing the competencies of faculty members. Academic institutions, as a symbol of learning and knowledge-oriented organizations, should have leaders and role models with scientific and ethical origins at the domestic and foreign levels, in order to fulfill their role of scientific leadership, an approach that requires universities.

Innovation and originality:

They can achieve it by improving the platform for empowering and developing of group and organizational Qualifications in faculty members and creating motivation in the field of scientific exchanges with a focus on professional ethics, responsibility and accountability.

The aim of the current study is to examine the effect of spiritual health and self-efficacy on the creative and innovative entrepreneurship of academic staff members of Islamic Azad University in Mazandaran province. The statistical population of this research included all the faculty members of Islamic Azad University in Mazandaran. The sampling was done using cluster sampling method and the sample size was estimated to be 317 individuals using Cochran's formula. Finally, 310 questionnaires were collected and analyzed. The instruments in this study included three questionnaires of creative and innovative entrepreneurship, self-efficacy, and spiritual health. The obtained data were analyzed using Pearson correlation, independent t-test and multiple regression. The results of the correlation coefficient showed that there is a direct and meaningful relationship between creative and innovative entrepreneurship, spiritual health and self-efficacy of academic staff members of Islamic Azad University in Mazandaran. It means that the higher the level of self-efficacy and spiritual health, the more creative and innovative entrepreneurship is. In addition, considering the significance level of all research variables was less than 0.05 and the t-statistic of all research variables was greater than 2.33, the results of the multiple regression analysis confirmed all research hypotheses

The study opportunity project of communication with society and industry is considered as a legal requirement for university professors. Considering the newness and necessity of this course, ignoring its possible damages may prevent the realization of the plan's goals. These damages are very serious and ponderable in the fields of humanities. In addition, now in the country, various think tanks with the aim of solving social problems are trying to use scientific achievements along with the experiences of other countries to provide solutions. However, a deep and structured relationship between university faculty members and think tanks has not been formed. The purpose of this article is to diagnose this opportunity in general and to identify the damage of communication between humanities professors and think tanks.

The nature of this research is qualitative, exploratory and interpretive, according to its purpose. Using the mixed exploratory research design and the narrative research strategy, this article tried to examine the reasons for the lack of communication between these two groups in the form of a study opportunity of communication with the society from the perspective of each of the two sides and finally provide a solution to remove the obstacles. For this purpose, 50 unstructured interviews were conducted with the faculty members included in this opportunity and experts and managers of different think tanks, and the most important damages were extracted from the perspective of each of the parties.

things like the unknown nature of this course, the ambiguities of the internal regulations of the universities, the failure of operational units to welcome applicants, and the link between changing the status and promotion of faculty members with study opportunities are among the inherent harms of this course. In addition, the newness of the think tank concept, the difference between its functions and the institution of science, the uncertainties in the stability of think tanks and their political affiliations, as well as the discursive difference between university professors and the environment of think tanks, are among the most important reasons for the lack of luck for professors to connect with think tanks. On the other hand, low attention to the application of knowledge by professors, the nature of the opinion of some humanities fields, the existence of negative mental records of some professors, and the lack of university think tanks are among the most important challenges in the environment of think tanks in relation to professors. In general, the most important reason for the lack of communication between these two sectors is the lack of sufficient recognition and misunderstanding on both sides, and to solve it, it is suggested to create a context for frequent communication, as well as to define the context of cooperation and common interests between these two groups.

The contemporary world is changing more and more, and higher education and universities are not unaffected by these developments; The role of universities and, consequently, the role of faculty members is changing in line with developments in the contemporary world. One of the emerging approaches in higher education is world class university. In this field, quality faculty members are a key and important factor in achieving a world-class university. Therefore, it is important to identify new plans of faculty members in emerging academic contexts. This research has been done to cover this scientific gap.

This research is applied in terms of purpose and according to the method of data collection, it is a qualitative research of thematic analysis. The statistical population of the study was the resources related to the world-class university and especially the competencies of the faculty members in the world-class university. After reviewing the sources extracted from the databases, 57 sources were purposefully selected. To analyze the data, coding and thematic analysis methods were used and in order to validate the data, King et al methods were used.

After analyzing the data, a total of 32 basic themes and 5 organizing themes were identified, and through this, the global theme of "scientific extraversion" was formed.The results showed that based on the role and responsibilities of faculty members in the context of a world-class university, the competencies of faculty members in this field in the five themes of organizing "scientific impact", " meta-university interactions " and "social responsibilities", " "Global Citizenship" and "Cultural Intelligence". Based on this, the overarching theme of "scientific extraversion" was identified, which is suggested to be considered by faculty members and higher education policy makers.

The sudden and inevitable encounter of the country's higher education with online education in the last two years and after the epidemic of the Covid-19 virus has necessitated the need to examine the effects of this educational method on different aspects of professors' performance in the classroom. The present study was conducted to identify and prioritize online education's effects on university faculty members' professional ethics during the Covid-19 pandemic.  

The statistical The current research is practical type, and post-event in terms of the time dimension. Also, according to the investigated problem, the qualitative approach and thematic analysis method have been used.  the   population of this research is made up of 85 faculty members of the University of Science and Culture, and the theoretical saturation of the data has been achieved by collaborating 14 of them through purposive sampling. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview. The method of data analysis was the interpretative analysis approach and the theme network analysis method Discussion &

The findings of the research showed that there are a total of 46 categories in the form of three general themes (individual, communicational and proficiency) and from different motivational, legal, behavioral, educational and research aspects, in connection with the observance of professional ethics by the participating academic staff members in the research, it has been extracted. The personal theme has been identified as the most important theme, covering nearly half of the frequency of the extracted primary concepts. " proficiency " theme with about one third and “communicational” theme with covering about one fifth of basic concepts are placed in the next categories. The results of the research showed that online education has caused faculty members to prioritize the legal and university's legal and educational rules and requirements, and can evaluate online education on actions related to professional ethics apply themselves; On the other hand, interactive and motivational aspects related to the professional ethics of faculty members have been recognized as weak. If the university is satisfied with monitoring the contractual forms of professional ethics of academic staff members and only shows sensitivity towards observing these aspects, the academic staff members will also use their efforts to strengthen these aspects and they will make less effort to strengthen other mainly ritualistic aspects of professional ethics such as fairness, respecting students' rights, fostering interaction and communication with students, and the like.

Human resources is the most important asset of any organization and its proper management is very effective in the performance of the organization. On the other hand, due to the weaknesses in knowledge sharing between professors, it seems that the role of knowledge management as a mediating factor in the impact of strategic human resource management on university performance is still unclear. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the impact of strategic human resource management on organizational performance of faculty members of University of Zanjan with the mediating role of knowledge management. The research method in this applied research was descriptive-survey and the statistical population consisted of about 400 faculty members of Zanjan University. The statistical sample size of the study, using Cochran's formula, was 184 people who responded to the research tool by available sampling method. The data collection tool consisted of three variables of strategic human resource management, organizational performance and knowledge management, the face validity of which was confirmed by experts and the reliability of all three variables through Cronbach's alpha with 0.91, 0.94 and 0.80, respectively. The collected data were analyzed using structural equation modeling and the results showed that, considering the mediating role of knowledge management on the impact of strategic human resource management on the organizational performance of faculty members, if the approaches of strategic human resource management and exchange of information and interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary communication of professors can be achieved in achieving educational goals and effective university research.

One of the ways of scientific dynamism in any country and scientific development of higher education and faculty members of any university in the world is the international interactions of faculty members. The purpose of this study is to identify the barriers and challenges of international interactions among faculty members of Tabriz University to provide a model for these barriers and challenges.

This research was done using a qualitative approach by conventional content analysis method using MAXQDA 2018 software. Participants in this study were 15 faculty members of Tabriz University, selected by systematic sampling method using snowball technique. After semi-structured interviews with the participants, these interviews continued until the data saturation was reached; then, the researcher did the open coding, and after that, the axial coding was done in two steps until the main categories were identified. The validity of these interviews was assessed using two strategies of analysis and review by participants and review by research colleagues.

The analysis results of this study showed that the identified barriers and challenges of international interactions have four main dimensions, including individual barriers and challenges, organizational barriers and challenges, national barriers and challenges, and transnational barriers and challenges. Results showed that individual barriers and challenges included three components ( low motivation of faculty members to have international interactions, insufficient mastery of faculty members in an international language and weakness of scientific-research abilities and skills of faculty members),organizational barriers consisted of four components (inadequate support of university structure from international interactions of faculty members, insufficient support of university culture from international interactions of faculty members, insufficient financial support of university from international interactions of faculty members, weakness of expert human resources in different organizational sections), national barriers and challenges included three elements (cultural, social, economic, and scientific components), and transnational barriers and challenges had two elements (political obstacles and international sanctions). The proposed model can be used as a basis for identifying, acting and evaluating to remove barriers and challenges to international interactions of faculty members for the relevant authorities to increase those interactions.

An educational setting is a creative and unique place in which students’ development and proper orientation take place. Faculty members’ daily lives include constant decisionmaking, which is a complex process of contemplation, evaluation, and analysis. Every instructional action is the outcome of a decision made, either consciously or unconsciously, by teachers following extensive processing of available information. Faculty members make decisions about lesson content, class motivation, resource use, incentives or disincentives, and numerous other issues involved in the daily routine of classrooms. These decisions can, but not necessarily, have far-reaching and profound consequences for the success or failure of the faculty’s daily work and future activities. As a result, the attempt to improve the faculty’s decision-making in curriculum planning is aimed at offering crucial solutions to improve educational outcomes, student performance, and the higher education system. A complex and interconnected set of internal and external forces, such as historical, ideological, cultural, social, political, economic, individual, and organizational factors, affect the faculty members’ curriculum planning decisions. Thus, a deep understanding of these factors can lead to the identification of needs, limitations, and opportunities, which, in turn, can affect faculty members’ curriculum development and innovation. As a result, the current study sought to develop a model of the processes involved in Birjand University faculty members’ decision-making in curriculum development. This study used a qualitative approach based on Strauss and Corbin’s reformulated grounded theory. Grounded theory, which is based on a set of empirical relevant data, is a method used to gain knowledge about a subject that has not been thoroughly researched before and for which the existing knowledge is limited. In implementing the grounded theory, the researcher must use a specific technique for analysis, use phased coding (open, axial, and selective), and present the results in the same paradigm model. The statistical population of this study included all Birjand University faculty members, of which 21 were chosen through purposeful sampling. The inclusion criteria were having more than 5 years of experience and teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels. Sampling continued until theoretical saturation was reached. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with 21 faculty members from various fields (i.e., educational sciences and psychology, basic sciences, literature, and engineering) that had sufficient experience to provide researchers with expert opinions pertinent to the research topic. Four criteria introduced by Lincoln and Guba (1985) were used to ensure the trustworthiness of the findings. These included credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability. Member-checking, or participant validation, was used to ensure credibility. The findings were shared with experts to make them transferable. Concerning dependability, the inter-coder agreement was used. Finally, peer review and feedback were used to enhance the confirmability of the results. The results revealed 32 core concepts and 13 categories, which were collated to develop a paradigm model. The following themes constituted the model: lack of scientific rigor in classroom decision-making (as the core category), causal conditions (extraorganizational, environmental, and motivational factors), contextual factors (behavioral factors, programmatic factors, and support factors), facilitating intervention conditions (managerial, structural, and behavioral factors), limiting intervention conditions (organizational-environmental challenges and implementation obstacles), strategies (decision-making based on previous structures, situational decision-making, conservative decision-making, and interactive decision-making), and the consequence (decreased effectiveness and efficiency) of the organization. Based on the findings of this study and the significance of faculty members’ decisionmaking, it is necessary for universities to improve the faculty’s level of knowledge and their “scientific” decision-making skills by implementing an educational program and providing them with the necessary support. In this regard, since faculty members’ decisions can influence students’ educational and business future, it is suggested that the faculty members’ decisions concerning curriculum development be considered and analyzed from a cultural, psychological, economic, and sociological standpoint. Furthermore, due to limited research on the intuitive and logical factors driving the faculty members’ decision-making, more research is needed to focus on faculty members’ curriculum development decisions in relation to students’ characteristics, class dynamics, and organizational context. Also, the nature of these decisions, the factors affecting them, and their effect should be examined. The findings of this study can deepen understanding of and shed light on faculty members’ and teachers’ decision-making in the classroom.

The aim of this study is to investigate the status of faculty members in the evaluation of curricula of top universities in the country and the world in order to design a scale for evaluating the valid curriculum for faculty members. This research has a mixed method of exploratory-sequential type in the form of tool design. The statistical population consisted of four groups of curriculum development experts and faculty members from top universities, officials of study centers of top public universities, officials of the Ministry of Science and Documents of selected universities of the world. The sampling process was conducted through purposeful method and the data collection tools were a semi-organized interview, document analysis and a curriculum evaluation scale. The findings revealed that top universities around the world use the ideas from all internal and external stakeholders such as faculty members, students, alumni and employers in the curriculum evaluation process. in Iranian universities, internal and external stakeholders are limited in their ability to evaluate curricula, and faculty members are more likely to participate in the evaluation of academic curricula than other groups, depending on the context in which they are offered. Finally a scale of eight validated domains with 60 items and 6 open-ended questions is developed and presented for curriculum evaluation based on the perspectives of university faculty members.

Innovation is an important and vital factor for organizations to create value. The present study was conducted to investigate the impact of innovation management on educational performance in Mazandaran Universities of Medical Sciences. This applied study was performed with a combined qualitative and quantitative approach. In the quantitative part, the descriptive-survey method was used. The statistical population of the qualitative section consisted of 10 professors of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, selected by purposive sampling, and in the quantitative section, 256 people using random sampling method were selected according to Cochran's formula from among 765 faculty members of universities of sciences. To collect data, two researcher-made questionnaires of innovation management with 66 items and Zandi Educational Performance Questionnaire (2013) with 25 items were used. The validity and reliability of the instruments were confirmed and their Cronbach's alpha was calculated above 0.7. SPSS 21 and PLS 3.2 software were used for data analysis. The results showed that the highest average among the dimensions of innovation management was related to the dimension of organizational culture with 3.92, and the lowest value was related to the dimension of organizational incentives with the value of 3.53 and the dimension of organizational culture with R2 value of 0.835 was at the highest level. Also, based on the path coefficients factor of 0.368, it can be concluded that the impact of innovation management on educational performance in Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences was positive and significant.