EXAMINING THE AWARENESS DEGREE OF FACULTY MEMBERS OF DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE AT ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY AND ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY ABOUT CURRICULUM INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT FACTORS AND SCALE OF THEIR USAGE

Educational innovation is a learning process for faculty members and for their universities. Good understanding of innovation and clear conception of curriculum and education are necessary conditions for improved implementation of curriculum innovation engineering into practice The purpose of the present research was to examining the awareness degree of faculty members at Isfahan University and Isfahan University of Technology in the Department of Engineering and Science about curriculum innovation development factors (Innovation of instructional objectives, innovation content, innovative ways of regulating the learning experience, teaching new methods, and evaluation new methods¬) and scale of their usage. The present study is applied research and its method is descriptive-survey. The population of study was all faculty members of the Departments of Engineering and Science. Method of sampling was stratified sampling. According to the Cochran's sample size formula, 90 faculty members were chosen as sample (20 ones at University of Isfahan and 70 ones at Technical University of Isfahan). Research instruments was questionnaire of which designed by researcher. The content validity of questionnaire was determined using the specialist`s views and the reliability of the questionnaire was estimated 0.92 by using Coronbach`s Alpha method. The result showed that; 1-The awareness degree of faculty’s members about, innovation of content selection, teaching innovative methods, and evaluation new methods is “much”. 2-The awareness degree of faculty’s members about innovative objectives selection, and innovative mechanisms of regulation of learning experiences is “average”. 3-The awareness degree of faculty’s members about the application degree of innovative curricula of faculty members at Isfahan University of Technology is less than average.