Identifying and ranking the dimensions of research-based higher education system in Islamic Azad universities of Mazandaran province

Subject Areas : Educational management

Seyedeh Mahboubeh Jafari Rostami ¹ , Kioumars Niyazazari ² , Taraneh Enayati ³

1 - PhD Student in Educational Management, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Educational Management, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Educational Management, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran

Received: 2021-05-06 Accepted : 2021-05-16 Published : 2021-08-23

Keywords: University, Research-based higher education system, structural and administrative, educational and research,

Abstract :

The general purpose of this study was to identify and rank the dimensions of the research-based higher education system in Islamic Azad universities of Mazandaran province. This research was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of method. The statistical population consisted of managers and deputies of units, managers and deputies of faculties, heads of departments and faculty members of Islamic Azad universities of Mazandaran province in the number of 700 people using stratified random sampling method. Based on Cochran's formula, 248 people were selected as a sample. A researcher-made questionnaire with research-based higher education with 123 questions was used to collect data. The face and content validity of the tool was confirmed by experts and its convergent validity was also confirmed. Their combined reliability and Cronbach's alpha value were also calculated above 0.7, which was confirmed. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were used to analyze the data. the results showed that; The research-based higher education system has two dimensions: "structural and administrative and educational and research". The structural and administrative dimension has ten dimensions and the educational and research dimension has thirteen dimensions, of which the structural and administrative dimension has the highest rank and the educational and research dimension has the lowest rank.