Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• reza shakorzadeh ¹
• hassan maleki ²
• mahdi ghasabi ³

¹ MA of training management in Allameh Tabatabai’ University

² Associate professor of Curriculum planning in Allameh Tabatabai’ University

³ MA of training management in Islamic Azad University in Tabriz Branch

Abstract

The aim of the present research is  to assess the quality of the post-graduate curricula of Allameh Tabatabai’ University with an emphasis on the objectives, the content, teaching-learning strategies and the assessment strategies of the curricula. This was a descriptive-longitudinal study which had a statistical population of all post-graduate students and professors of the department of Psychology and Education Sciences in the academic year 2013-2014The 165 students and 53 teachers are.Morgan with a sample size of 114 students and 46 faculty members were estimated The sampling was carried out using the stratified proportional-to-size method. Content-face validity test was performed to ensure the validity of the questionnaire. The reliability of the questionnaire which consists of 68 questions was calculated to be 94% on a thirty-member group using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. To analyze the results of the questionnaires, a one-sample, independent t-test was used. The findings of the present research, according to the components of the curriculum, show that for the students, the objectives, the content, and the assessment strategies of the curricula have fallen short of meeting their needs and expectations, and for the professors, operational strategy and assessment strategy were the two components that were, to some extent, effective in meeting their needs and expectations, but objective and content components failed to be so. In addition, there was no significant difference between the demographic features of the students and the professors.

Keywords

• Higher education
• Curriculum
• Quality Assessment
• Post-graduate Education