A study of the present and possible situations of the application of evaluation indicators of curriculum inputs at the postgraduate level at Isfahan, Shahrekord and Isfahan Industrial universities

Abstract

In this research, researchers studied present and possible situation of the application of evaluation indicators of curriculum inputs by choosing a number of the most important of these, for evaluation of three important components of curriculum input(faculty, students and facilities) at the postgraduate level at Isfahan, Shahrekord and Isfahan Industrial universities, based on the CIPP-model. It is a kind of applied research and the method used is descriptive-analytic and survey. The statistical population of the quantitative part includes all faculty members, students andpostgraduate students of the mentioned universities total: 11635 people. Then choosing 652 people, by stratified sampling as sample. Statistical population of qualitative part includes all the faculty members of the universities mentioned, that 30 members of them selected by purposeful sampling method. The data were collected by questionnaire and interview. The validity of the tools was approved by 15 professors of Isfahan University. Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the present and possible situation of the questionnaire was 0.96 and 0.97. The reliability of the interview form was assessed by the specialists and the triangulation. The results of the research show that, mean of the viewpoints of the members to present situation of evaluation indicators of faculty members was medium (p>0.01 & =3.07) and student and facilities was less than medium (p4). Therefore using all these indicators in the evaluation of the three mentioned components is suggested.

Keywords

• : higher education
• CIPP evaluation model
• Curriculum
• postgraduate studies