Surveying the infrastructures required for implementation of e-learning in smart schools in Bushehr Province
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Although today the evaluation is concerned as one of the most significant processes of management in all of organizations, this issue has been much more paid attention in universities and higher education institutes for training expert human resources and producing knowledge and technology. Also, the evaluation of teaching quality is one of the major criterion for accreditation any university and efficacy of that university's academic faculties as well. This paper is to survey the attitude towards the evaluation of teaching quality done based on the surveying and comparing students' and professors' views among three groups of business management, industrial management, and accounting departments in Persian Gulf University in Bushehr. This is a descriptive-surveying study, so a research-structured questionnaire was applied to measure and evaluate the teaching quality. Statistical population consisted of 1280 students studying in Persian Gulf University among which 276 persons were randomly selected based on stratification sampling method and 28 faculty members. Content analysis was used for validity and Chronbach's Alpha was also used for reliability(α=0.92). Findings, based on T-test, ANOVA, Regression Analysis, Factor Analysis, and Pearson's Correlation Coefficient, showed that the following indexes would be known as the effective factors on the attitude and evaluation of teaching process quality respectively: quality evaluation, satisfaction of evaluation results, keeping educational regulations, teaching style, applying education technology, student and professor exchange, awareness of evaluation goals, and entire satisfaction from research activities.
Key words: Smart school, e-learning, software infrastructures.
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