Identifying factors Affecting on Research Empowerment of Students: a Study with a Phenomenological Approach

Subject Areas : Education

Ebrahim Abyar ¹ , kolsom Nami ² , Nadergholi Ghorchian ³ , Mehdi bageri ⁴

1 - Department of Educational Management, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Management, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran
3 - Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Research Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Associate Professor, Department of Educational Management, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran

Received: 2021-02-10 Accepted : 2022-12-18 Published : 2022-10-23

Keywords: Students, Effective factors, identifying, research empowerment,

Abstract :

Introduction: Today, all over the world, they focus on 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 main activity to promote teaching and learning or the research teaching process, including the development of academic competence in school. they adapt The aim of the current research is to identify the factors affecting the research empowerment of students.
research methodology: The field of research included experts with research records related to the field of research empowerment. To determine the sample size, the purposeful sampling method was used. 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 method, axial coding and extraction of main and secondary themes.
Findings: Five main themes were obtained, these themes include: identifying the characteristics of capable students in the field of research from the teachers' point of view, identifying the inhibiting factors in the research empowerment of students, suggested solutions to improve research capability, effective factors in facilitating research, the role Effective factors in research empowerment.
Conclusion: The results showed that personality factors, inherent, social factors and acquired skills (metacognitive, critical thinking and information technology) are among the factors that are effective in empowering students' research. Identifying bottlenecks in the educational system is one of the important steps to progress in research empowerment. The existence of educational and research facilities and opportunities can facilitate the necessary conditions for increasing 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.
 

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