Identifying Effective Factors of Students' Research Empowerment: A Study with a Phenomenological Approach

Today, around the world, the importance of research for the development of education and efforts to create and expand research empowerment in students, and the role of research as a major activity to promote teaching and learning or research teaching process, including the development of academic competence in school, They adapt. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors affecting students' research empowerment. The statistical population of the study included experts with research writings and records related to the field of research empowerment. Purposeful sampling method was used to determine the sample size. The main research tool was semi-structured interviews, after 20 interviews, the data reached theoretical saturation. Data extracted from semi-structured interviews were analyzed using open coding, axial coding and main and secondary themes. The results showed that personality factors, intrinsic, social factors and acquired skills (metacognitive, critical thinking and information technology) are among the factors that are effective in empowering students' research. Identifying the bottlenecks in the educational system is an important step forward in research empowerment. The existence of educational and research facilities and opportunities can facilitate the necessary conditions to increase research empowerment. In this way, the existence of appropriate educational and research capacities and facilities promotes research empowerment through the possibility of creative thinking and motivation.