Designing a Proposed Model of Educational measures of Curriculum Stakeholders Higher Education in Critical Conditions Covid-19

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

mohammadhossein zarei ¹ , AhmadReza Nasr Isfahani ²

1 - Assistant professor, Peyame - Noor university, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Isfahan. Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2022-01-11 Accepted : 2023-01-10 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: COVID-19, Curriculum Higher Education, Curriculum Stakeholders,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study, Identify effective actions of curriculum ­stakeholders in higher education (educational policy makers, university­managers, professors and students) and offered a Model for this purpose. This research is applied and mixed in terms of purpose,thus,in the first part, the method of themic analysis was used,and in the second part, the descriptive-survey method was used. The statistical area of the research in the qualitative section includes experienced curriculum and subject specialists who have conducted research in this field using the purposeful sampling method, and the quantitative section is made up of curriculum specialists across the country. Which were selected by available sampling method. The number of interviewees was 13, and their number was determined according to data saturation, and in the quantitative part, the number of samples was 83, which was estamated using Cochran’s formula. The data collection tool is a semi-structured interview that was conducted over the phone and a researcher’s questionnaire that was prepared electronically and its link was provided to the practicipants. The validity of the interviws and the questionnaire was determined by the content validity method and the reliability of the questionnaire was determined whith Cronbach’s alpha(0.82). Data analysis in the qualitative part of interpretivism paradigm and in the quantitative part (descriptive statistics, Bartlett test, KMO, chi square, t-test, EFA and CFA  has taken. After analyzig the data in the qualitative section and extracting the effective actions of curriculum stakeholders, 12 items ewre identified in the field of pilicy makers, 11 items in university administrators, 9 items in professors and 9 items in students. In addition, the analysis of quantitative data led to the presentation of a factor analysis model that has a good fit(Rmsea=0/82). From this sstudy, it can be concluded that most measures should be taken in order to create justice and equality in access to technology and increase media literacy.

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