Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• mehri saki
• seyedmostafa sharif

Abstract

Isfahan University has stat 'ed to revise its curricula. A three steps process has been defined for this revision, and the council of department, the faculty committee, and the policy making office have been involved in curriculum development. The main purpose of this study is to survey the span of responsibility of each of these parts. The research is an analytical descriptive type. Its statistical population has included 454faculty members and after determining the sample size, 90 persons has been chosen. The main instrument of data gathering, consisted of a close-ended questionnaire made by the researches with the reliability of 0.86. Thefindings revealed that department council is responsible for the revision of available materials (%96. 7),revision of credits and determined sources, and substitution of courses of study (%93.3). The span of responsibility offaculty committee is the explanation of educational policies of the faculty (%53.4). The spans of responsibilities of policy making office are needs assessment (%92 2) and set 11p the new educationalfields (%90

Keywords

• decentralization
• span of responsibility
• curriculum development
• policy making agency
• Higher education