Background: Outstanding leadership is one of the important and vital concepts in management and educational leadership debates especially in educational organizations such as universities. Thus, effective educational leadership and adopting an appropriate tool to assess leadership in education are crucial in these institutions. The present study was conducted to develop an instrument for meas...

background: outstanding leadership is one of the important and vital concepts in management and educational leadership debates especially in educational organizations such as universities. thus, effective educational leadership and adopting an appropriate tool to assess leadership in education are crucial in these institutions. the present study was conducted to develop an instrument for measur...

Introduction. Several studies have shown that the effective educational attendance of faculty members have been substantially decreased. This is due to many different factors. Lack of a comprehensive analysis of this issue has led the university managers to implement ineffective, arbitrary strategies to force the faculty members to increase their attendance in the educational activities. In ord...

We have evaluated the pitfalls in reporting sample size calculation in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published in the 10 highest impact factor anaesthesia journals.Superiority RCTs published in 2013 were identified and checked for the basic components required for sample size calculation and replication. The difference between the reported and replicated sample size was estimated. The sou...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa background : one preliminary step to strengthen medical education research would be determining the research priorities. the aim of this study was to determine the research priorities of medical education in iran in 2007-2008. methods : this descriptive study was carried out in two phases. phase one was performed in 3 stages and used delphi technique a...

this research was conducted to investigate the factors contributing to thefailure in the forestry and rangeland by-product cooperative companies in lorestanprovince, iran. a descriptive-correlative research design was used. the statisticalpopulations were 1100 people divided into two groups of experts from natural resourceagency in lorestan province and members of cooperative companies. the sam...

this study aims to identify job stressors faculty members of birjand university and its relationship with quality of work life. the research method was descriptive and correlational that using cochran's sampling formula that sample size was determined by actual count, 136 members and simple random sampling was used. job stress (hse) questionnaire with reliability (α= 0.90) and quality of w...

Higher education has recently faced new challenges and responsibilities such as higher expectations to contribute to national and regional developments; considerable cuts in public funds, and the highly competitive educational markets. Previous research has suggested a positive association between development of human capitals in higher education institutions and their capacity to deal with the...