Social Sciences
Fatemeh Esmaeelpour Darimi; Esmaeel Jafari; Amirreza Asnafi
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Purpose: Examining the effective factors on the social role of the higher education system can help to improve it. As a result, the aim of this research was identifying and leveling the effective factors on the social role of the university system based on interpretive structural equations.
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Purpose: Examining the effective factors on the social role of the higher education system can help to improve it. As a result, the aim of this research was identifying and leveling the effective factors on the social role of the university system based on interpretive structural equations.
Methodology: This study was in terms of purpose applied and in terms of implementation method was cross-sectional. The research population in the qualitative section was documents and texts related to research and experts in this field. The numbers of 50 documents and texts were selected by purposive sampling method and numbers of 10 experts were selected as samples by purposive sampling method. The data were collected by taking notes from documents and texts and a survey from experts about the researcher-made questionnaire and were analyzed by the interpretive structural equation method in PLS software.
Findings: The findings showed that the effective factors on the social role of the higher education system were included 11 factors of challenging the university curriculum, promoting forms of social participation, preparing students for public jobs, active citizenship curriculum, teaching and learning social responsibility, research-oriented, social projects, cultivating competent people, eligible citizens development, attention to the views of social stakeholders in the university system and social sensitivity education. The results of interpretive structural equations showed that the factor of promoting forms of social participation was on the first level, the factors of research-oriented and cultivating competent people was on the second level, the factor of teaching and learning social responsibility was on the third level, the factors of challenging the university curriculum and preparing students for public jobs was on the fourth level, the factors of active citizenship curriculum, attention to the views of social stakeholders in the university system and social sensitivity education was on the fifth level, the factor eligible citizens development was on the sixth level and the factor of social projects was on the seventh level, and based on the interpretive structural model of the effective factors on the social role of the university system was designed.
Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, higher education planners and specialists can use the results of this study and use the identified effective factors on the social role of the university system to improve the state of the university and gain a competitive advantage.
Saeed Bahkshizadeh; Heidar Toorani; Ali Khalkhali
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the educational policy in non-governmental financial institutions in order to present a appropriate model.Methodology: The research method, in terms of developmental purpose and in terms of the type of consecutive exploratory data, was performed in the ...
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the educational policy in non-governmental financial institutions in order to present a appropriate model.Methodology: The research method, in terms of developmental purpose and in terms of the type of consecutive exploratory data, was performed in the qualitative part by the data method and in the quantitative part by the descriptive survey method. The statistical population included 3850 people in the qualitative part of a number of experts and in the quantitative part of all managers, deputies and staff members of institutions. In the qualitative section, 12 people were selected by snowball method and in the quantitative section, 384 people were selected by cluster and random method according to Krejcie and Morgan table. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire that had a slight appearance, content and structure. Also, CVR was confirmed with a coefficient of 0.846 and its reliability was confirmed with a coefficient of 0.871 and the data were analyzed.Findings: The results showed that the dimensions and components of the model are: 1- Emphasis on strategic factors (scientific and skill abilities of policy makers, emphasis on realism in policy formulation, the impact of political parties on policy formulation, the impact of culture and society in Policy formulation) 2- Emphasis on supportive factors (use of national support, use of scientific community, use of support of government institutions and bodies) 3- Attention to educational quality (emphasis on evaluation in policy formulation, attention to staff growth, Emphasis on educational and research factors) 4- Paying attention to educational infrastructures and facilities (providing educational facilities, reforming organizational structure, fair distribution of budget) 5- Paying attention to multiple development (economic, political, social, cultural and scientific development) 6- Paying attention to the effects of policy implementation (educational growth, growth of human and moral values, creating the ground for justice distribution).Conclusion: Considering the root value of estimating the variance of the approximation error for each dimension which is equal to 0.063, 0.075, 0.063, 0.099, 0.093 and 0.081, respectively, the resulting model has a suitable structure.
