Abstract

Today country success in economic, social, political, cultural tendencies etc. … is approved to be the hostages and pawns of coherent and dynamic didactic system. The education and didactic programs for qualification improvement and dynamism need to quantitatively and qualitatively evaluation and scrutiny. Current study started with the goal of presenting faculty competency evaluation for the reason of qualitative improvement of Islamic Azad University. Research in terms of to the way of collecting and compiling the details descriptive- survey and in terms of the goal and target type is so practical that by conducting general scrutiny in literature and subject history and past, we drawn the theoretical frame and conceptual model in this study. Nominee educational members’ opinions faculty members (self-assessment), supervisors (superiors), students of (clients) Fars province different Islamic Azad Universities are as the research society. In this research, with researcher evaluation in 24 active units in Fars province, approximately 125000 persons were examined. That sample volume was selected equal to 380 persons by using the clustered random sampling method (Krejcie and Morgan formulas). For collecting data, we used a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by the specialists and its stability was calculated by using the Cronbach’s alpha method equal to 0.84. Researcher-made questionnaire includes effective component in competency in five general axes for collecting the data. Then, with using 360-degree evaluation method, it was executed. For the data analysis, we used the descriptive statistic method and elicitation statistic (fact oral analysis, Wilcoxon and Friedman) and the results of the study are as follows: 1. drawing the model of competency evaluation of faculty (main dimension of evaluation indexes of faculty competencies), and 2. In the field of evaluation of the current situation from the dimensions and competence skill parameters, the ethical values, role, personal, and favorable statuses are evaluated. But in the performance and functional dimensions, and its subcomponents unfavorable status and lower than average level evaluated and the results of ranking of evaluation of dimensions of competencies of faculty in order to select the most priority is related to skill dimension, and the least priority is related to the functional and performance dimensions.

Highlights

  • According to the society gradual conversion to knowledge-based society, the social demand for knowledge and skills has increased

  • The First Study Question: What are the main parameters of faculty competency evaluation at Islamic Azad University system?

  • 1) In the first dimension, the case of faculty competency model is performance: Seven parameters of planning, leading, organizing, monitoring, evaluation, consultation, and researching are defined by the help of fact oral analysis and after evaluating the history, we realized the upper parameters in the researches of these men: Cheetham and Chivers (1996), Vishan (1999), Robert et al (2009), Rouhollahi et al (2004), Jahanian (2013), and Arasteh and Mahmoudi (2003)

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Introduction

According to the society gradual conversion to knowledge-based society, the social demand for knowledge and skills has increased. With growing the importance of higher education (palpitate heart and society development motor) and its high development in societies and doing various missions, most of them have reached the point that university means faculty. This work led to decrease in the options level of faculty and power of the faculty in the main operation of the university (Ferasatkhah, 2009); faculty is considered as an undertaking main and effective educational pillar in the higher education system operation and its targets substantiation. Education system of every country by accompanying with evaluation, research, and examination processes can be able to protect and develop the performance and effectiveness and answerer to the needs of labor market and accountable to labor market, and accountable to procedure of growth of economic, social, and cultural pillars of society. Faculty evaluation is a way to increase the universities quality and society’s progress and development

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