A Survey on the Role of the University in Human Capital: A Model to Improve Higher Education Systen of Iran
Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planningفاطمه ذیگلری 1 , محمود قنادان 2 , نادرقلی قورچیان 3 , ابوالقاسم نادری 4
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Keywords: Higher education system, model, Human Capital,
Abstract :
The present descriptive survey was an attempt to investigate the role of the university on human capital and to provide a model for improving the higher education system in Iran. To this end, 40 features have been extracted through studying the pertinent literature and reflecting on a variety of models, theories, frameworks, techniques and strategies proposed in Iran and some other countries of the world. These features have then been limited to 23 features from which the model has been formulated and developed based on their theoretical and practical perspectives. The population of this research project encompasses all faculty members at Islamic Azad University in Esfahan (region 4) from which 200 has been drawn by stratified random sampling. At first all university branches were taken as the population and from each faculty a random sample of academic staff were proportionally selected. The validity of the questionnaire has been achieved by giving it to the experts in the field to review and comment upon the content and the features and it was later modified by the researcher. The reliability of the questionnaire, using Cronbach alpha formula. The validity of the model underwent content-related process so that thirty specialists were chosen to judge and validate the proposed model. In the data analysis, the researcher carried out both the descriptive statistics (frequency distribution, mean, SD, variance and percentage) and the inferential statistics (factor analysis, ANOVA, one-variable t-test, independent t-test, and Freedman & Scheffe). The results of this study can be applied, using the obtained features, to improve the performance and qualitative level of faculty members of the universities and also to modify and remedy the obtained pitfalls so that the distance between the present status and the favorite one will be decreased
