The Impact of Information Technology on the Educational and Research Performance of Faculty Members

Subject Areas : Infomartion Technology

ali golafshani ¹ (Educational Sciences - Human Sciences - Azad University - Sari - Iran)

Received: 2020-09-30 Accepted : 2020-11-21 Published : 2020-12-21

Keywords: research performance, educational performance, information and communication technologies,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of information technology on the educational and research performance of faculty members of the University of Science and Technology and the Faculty of basic sciences at the Medical Sciences of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. The present study was a descriptive-analytical survey. The statistical population included 80 faculty members of the two universities all of who were selectedas the study sample. In order to collect data, three questionnaires of information technology (Bazargan, 2012), educational performance and research performance (Aghatabar et al,2020) were used, the reliability of which were 0.86, 0.84 and 0.82, respectively. The face and content validities were confirmed by experts. The descriptive statistics, regression analysis and t-test in SPSS 22 software were used for data analysis. The results showed that the use of information technology in both universities was moderate. The educational performance of faculty members in both universities was satisfactory. Research performance in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences was relatively desirable and in Mazandaran University of Science and Technology was less desirable. Among the components of information technology, only the component of Internet use predicted the educational performance of faculty members.

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