Comparing professional and personal qualifications of teachers graduated from Farhangian University with other universities

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

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Department of Science Education, Farhangian University - Shahid Beheshti Higher Education Center, Tehran

Abstract

This research aimed to compare the professional and personal qualifications of teachers who graduated from Farhangian University with other universities. This research was applied, and its method was causal-comparative. The sample size was 296 school principals in Tehran province in the academic year of 2021-2022, who had a history of working with both groups of teachers, and answered 26 questions from two dimensions of professional competence and personality traits, which were adjusted with a five-point Likert scale. The experts have confirmed the face and content validity of the questionnaire, and their reliability has been approved by Cronbach’s alpha method of 0.92 and 0.90, respectively. The statistical process in this research was descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (independent t-test). The results show that the superiority of the graduates of Farhangian University was noticeable in all two dimensions. Considering the importance of elementary school in forming students’ personalities, we should use graduates of Farhangian University in this course and the first secondary school. Until the conditions of specialized education at Farhangian University are improved, we should use graduates of other universities at this stage.

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