نشریه نامه آموزش عالی
پیاپی 54 (تابستان 1400)

Universities are among the social systems that are known as the driving force of awareness, commanding and guiding the thoughts of societies. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of intelligent leadership on the educational performance of faculty members of public universities in Zahedan, Iran.

This research in terms of applied purpose and implementation is a descriptive correlation study based on the structural equation model. The statistical population included all faculty members of public universities in Zahedan, 666 people, whose sample size was estimated to be 120 people based on Cochran's formula by stratified random sampling. Intelligent leadership and educational performance questionnaires (designed by the Office of Supervision and Evaluation of Universities) were used to collect research data.   Content validity was confirmed by experts, structural validity was calculated through factor analysis, and reliability was also calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient equal to 0.97 and 0.93. SPSS23 and Smart PLS statistical software were used to analyze the data.

According to the research findings, intelligent leadership with a path coefficient (0.33) affects educational performance and the component of collective leadership with a path coefficient (0.38) has the greatest impact on the educational performance of faculty members.

By fitting the conceptual model of the research, it was assumed that intelligent leadership as a latent variable directly effects on educational performance of faculty members. Therefore, a great care must be taken in determining academic leadership styles because the methods that influence the behavior of faculty members are quite different from those found in traditional business companies.

The purpose of this study is to prioritizing for new educational technologies for use in the educational system of one of the military universities of the Iran.

In the present study, new educational technologies have been divided into two dimensions of new educational methods and tools and have been studied. The statistical population of this study included all faculty members of the Faculty of Humanities and Management and Economics of Tarbiat Modares University. The present study is descriptive in terms of data collection method in the qualitative part of the research and descriptive in the quantitative part; Accordingly, a standard questionnaire was prepared to collect data from experts and conducted in a structured interview. Finally, after reaching theoretical saturation in the answers, twenty-eight interviews were used to analyze the data. SPSS software was used to describe the data and comparative analysis was used to prioritize the components. PSS software was used to describe the data and comparative-analogical analysis was used to prioritize the components.

According to the research results, in prioritizing new educational technologies, finally, metacognitive, hybrid, multimedia, inverse, contingent, tris and film tools of strip slide, internet, e-book and library, smart board and computer, Respectively, obtained the highest score and were given priority.

In general, it can be said that the use of selected methods, which are generally active methods among learners, will lead to deeper and more sustainable learning, and the use of selected smart and electronic tools are essential for the growth of education in this university.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the focal relationship betweenprofessors effective teaching and students research self-efficacy.

The research population were 3,000 people of the postgraduate students of Bu Ali Sina University in the academic year of 2019 2020, which were selected by proportional stratified sampling method and based on Morgan table, a sample of three hundred and forty-one people was selected. The research method is quantitative, descriptive and in type of correlational studies. The research instruments were the Islamian Effective Teaching Questionnaire (2014) and the Salehi Research Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (2011). The reliability and validity of the instrument were determined through Cronbach's alpha and confirmatory factor analysis. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (center and dispersion indices) and inferential statistics (focal correlation and multiple linear regression) using SPSS 25 software.

Findings indicate that the dimensions of effective teaching of professors have a positive and significant focal correlation in alpha 0.01 to 0.7 with the dimensions of students 'research self-efficacy.

The results showed that the dimensions of effective teaching of professors can explain %294 of the variance of students' self-efficacy.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitude of technical and engineering students of Urmia university towards the quality of educational services based on an integrated model.

The research method was descriptive correlational and the statistical population included all 2289 technical and engineering students of Urmia University in the academic year of 2019-2020. The sample size was determined by stratified proportional random sampling method using Morgan table of 328 people from the Faculty of Engineering. The research instrument was Service Quality Questionnaire based on EDUQUAL and SERQUAL models and its validity was confirmed by content validity method. The reliability of the questionnaire was also calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.89.

The results related to the research hypotheses indicated that there is a negative gap in all aspects of the quality of educational services. The results of Friedman test also showed that the largest gap is related to the dimension of physical facilities and the lowest gap is related to the dimension of empathy. Furthermore, the results showed that in terms of gender and educational level, there is no difference between the two existing and desirable conditions of the quality of education services.  

Based on the obtained results, it is suggested to use the opinions of technical and engineering students in relation to decisions related to university services.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the issues and expectations of international students from Iranian higher education in the Corona crisis.

The research is applied in terms of purpose and has been implemented with a qualitative perspective. One hundred and two international students studying in Iran participated in this study and answered open-ended and closed-ended questions. Content analysis method was conducted to analyze the data.

The findings of the study, based on coding and categorization, showed that the most important concerns of international students in the corona crisis can be classified into four categories: educational, research, economic, and family personal. In addition, the expectations of the respondents from the university were classified into three categories: communication-information, education, and support.

The Corona era, along with all the concerns, provides a valuable opportunity to identify and meet the expectations of international students and increase their satisfaction, to attract more international students in the post-Corona era. Accordingly, the findings of this study are useful and practical for universities that seek to attract more international students.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the application of professional ethics dimensions of faculty members of Yazd University and their role in students' academic motivation.

This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive correlational in terms of method. The statistical population consists of students of Yazd University who were selected based on the calculated sample size of three hundred and eighty-five people through the available sampling method.  In order to collect data, the researcher made questionnaire of professional ethics and the standard questionnaire of academic attitudes were used, that their validity was confirmed by content validity and construct validity, and their reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability. Data analysis was performed by one-way t-test in SPSS and structural equation modeling using Amos software.

The results showed that the level of professional ethics of faculty members is above average. Among the dimensions of professional ethics, the lowest average was related to the observance of justice, which is below average, but it also had the highest average after the issue of communication with the student.  Testing the hypotheses showed that among the dimensions of professional ethics, observing justice has the greatest effect on students ‘academic motivation, while the effect of observing rules and regulations on students' motivation was not confirmed.

Adherence to professional ethics by faculty members can be an important factor in increasing students' academic motivation. Therefore, faculty members should pay attention to maintaining and promoting professional ethics.

The purpose of this study was to commercialize knowledge based on the role of organizational ambidexterity.

The present study in terms of purpose is applied with a qualitative approach. Research data have been collected using inductive content analysis of knowledge commercialization frameworks and holding two Delphi panel courses by knowledge commercialization experts based on ambidexterity. participants included twenty-eight person of university experts, specialists and people working in growth centers in Mazandaran province in the academic year of 2019-2020, who were selected by snowball method until reaching theoretical saturation.  Data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using semantic unit analysis and Delphi technique.

According to the findings, dimensions, components and indicators of knowledge commercialization based on organizational ambidexterity in the form of four dimensions including commercialization of knowledge based on structural ambidexterity, managerial ambidexterity, contextual ambidexterity and innovative ambidexterity, and ten components of spatial separation, parallel structures, support of managers, empowerment actions of  manager, motivational actions of the manager, Opportunistic actions of the manager, institutional, individual, exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation and eighty-three indicators were identified.

Based on the research results, all dimensions, components and indicators were approved.