Identifying and ranking the dimensions of research-based schools in education in Mazandaran province

The overall purpose of this study was to identify and rank the dimensions of research-based schools in education in Mazandaran province. In terms of purpose, this research is practical that was done with a mixed_ method (qualitative and quantitative) with an exploratory design. In a quantitative part, a descriptive survey method was used. The statistical population consisted of 20 people in the qualitative section, principals and educational experts of Mazandaran province and in the quantitative section, 39220 people of teachers and school staffs in Mazandaran province. in a quantitative part, based on Cochran's formula, 380 people were selected as a sample by cluster-stratified random sampling method. A researcher-made questionnaire with 81 questions was used to collect data. The face and content validity of the instrument was confirmed by experts and their combined reliability and Cronbach's alpha were calculated above 0.7 which was confirmed. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis tests were used to analyze the data. the results showed that; Research-oriented schools have 13 dimensions: " culture of research, support structure, resources and facilities, communication, creativity, teaching and learning, infrastructure, human resource competencies, critical thinking, learning and research-oriented tasks, educational content, collaborative and collective learning" And planning "and then the culture of research with a factor of 0.796 has a higher rank and then the educational content with a factor of 0.453 has a lower rank.