An Analysis on the Internationalization of Higher Education in the University Using Structural Equation Modeling

The present research was conducted with the aim of investigating the factors affecting the internationalization of higher education in Iran, with an emphasis on the language of science education in the university.

Therefore, the fitting of the model derived from the grand theory method was done using a quantitative method and a survey.

In this model, 12 main factors were discovered in the following order: identification and the main phenomenon of the model, the pluralism of the language of science education is a way for rise and promotion: the causal factors of the model include the need for promotion and educational and research productivity, the need for economic productivity, the need To promote scientific interactions, and the need to promote cultural interactions. The contextual factors of the model to the two big challenges of international escapism and language education; And international antagonism and cultural fear are divided. Intervening factors are also in the two areas of policies and laws; and the social and cultural sphere are related. Effective strategies for pluralizing the language of science education in Iran, two strategies at the level of the government and policymakers; And the university level strategy and social factors were discovered. The consequences of multiple languages in science education are divided into two parts: positive and negative consequences, and the positive consequences are divided into two parts: social, economic, and scientific growth; And the divided cultural growth and the negative consequences of those possible scientific and cultural damages were found. At the end, the model derived from grounded theory was implemented with a researcher-made questionnaire in two selected comprehensive universities.

In the quantitative analysis, the fit of the model was confirmed by the method of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and then the structural equations resulting from the answers of 306 faculty members to the researcher-made questionnaire