The analysis of status of innovation curriculum acceptance (The case study of engineering departments at university of Isfahan and Isfahan University of Technology)

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze the status of curriculum innovation acceptance based on faculty members of engineering departments atUniversityofIsfahanand Isfahan University of Technology. The questions of this study were developed with respect to innovational styles of curriculum (including goals, content, teaching-learning strategies, and evaluation methods) and then were examined. The statistical population of this study were faculty members of engineering departments atUniversityofIsfahanand Isfahan University of Technology in 2010-2011. The samples include some faculty members of engineering and sciences departments atUniversityofIsfahanand Isfahan University of Technology. In order to select sample members, classification sampling method based on population size has been used. Then 92 faculty members were selected as sample members (20 faculty members fromUniversityofIsfahanand 72 faculty members from Isfahan University of Technology). In order to collect data, library method and researcher-developed questionnaire were used. Stability of this questionnaire measured through Cronbach’s Alpha and its coefficient was 95%. Also content and formal reliability of questionnaire accepted by 10 professionals and professors in curriculum field. The results of this study indicated that rate of innovation acceptance in goals, content, teaching-learning strategies, and evaluation methods were more than average level of curriculum.

Keywords

• curriculum innovation innovation engineering departments