نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی -پژوهشی ( ویژه نامه)

نویسندگان

1 دانشکده روانشناسی و علوم تربیتی دانشگاه تهران

2 دانش آموخته دکتری اقتصاد و مدیریت مالی دانشگاه تهران

3 دانشجوی دکتری سنجش و اندازه گیری دانشگاه تهران

10.22047/ijee.2024.429948.2033

چکیده

 هدف از پژوهش، بررسی وضعیت کیفیت آموزش مهندسی و ارائه راه کارهایی از طریق تحلیل محتوای مطالعات پیشین است. این پژوهش کیفی در دو گام انجام شده است. در گام نخست، با به‏ کارگیری روش مروری حیطه‏ ای منابع مطالعاتی از پایگاه مجله آموزش مهندسی ایران از سال 1378 تا 1402 و با درنظرگرفتن کلیدواژه ‏های تخصصی 31 مقاله گزینش شدند. سپس، منابع گزینش‏ شده با استفاده از تحلیل محتوای کیفی بررسی شدند. یافته‏ های به‏ دست ‏آمده در سه دسته عوامل درون‏دادی، برون‏دادی و پیامدی طبقه‏ بندی شدند. عوامل درون‏دادی، شامل دانشجویان (مسائل فردی و غیرفردی)، برنامه‏ های آموزشی و درسی (ضعف در برنامه‏ های درسی و آموزشی)، سیاست‏ های آموزش عالی (ضعف در سیاست‏گذاری، ضعف در اجرای سیاست‏ ها)، سیاست‏ های دانشگاه (رهبری ناکارآمد دانشگاه، مدیریت نامناسب دانشگاه)، اعضای هیئت‏ علمی (مسائل در سطح کلاس درس و ورای کلاس درس)، امکانات (ضعف در زیرساخت‏ های سخت و نرم) می‏شود. عوامل برون‏دادی، دربرگیرنده اشتغال دانش ‏آموختگان مهندسی (مشکلات شغل ‏یابی و مهاجرت نخبگان مهندسی)، گسست دانشگاه‏ های مهندسی از صنعت (کاستی‏ های دانشگاه و کاستی‏ های صنعت) است. عوامل پیامدی، شامل تأثیر شرایط اجتماعی و فرهنگی و شرایط اقتصادی و سیاسی بر اشتغال دانش‏ آموختگان مهندسی است. در پایان، پیشنهادهای اجرایی برای تجدیدنظر در سیاست‏ ها و ارتقای کیفیت آموزش مهندسی پیشنهاد شده است

کلیدواژه‌ها

موضوعات

عنوان مقاله [English]

THE QUALITY OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF CONTENT ANALYSIS OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN IRANIAN JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION

نویسندگان [English]

  • Ebrahim Khodaie 1
  • ahmad keykha 2
  • Zohreh Sadeghinia 3

1 Faculty of psychology and Education of Tehran University

2 Ph.D. t of economics and financial management, University of Tehran

3 Ph.D. student in Educational Measurement , Tehran University

چکیده [English]

The purpose of a research project which is reported here was to analyze the quality of engineering education based on the data collected from the articles published in the Iranian Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE). Furthermore, based on the findings, suggestions towards improving the quality of engineering education in Iran have been provided. In doing so, the content analysis of aforementioned studies was conducted in two steps. In the first step, a scoping review method was carried out to a selected 31 study sources from the database of the IJEE from 1999 to 2023 by considering specialized keywords. Then, the qualitative content analysis was carried out. The findings were classified into three categories: input, output, and outcome factors. Input factors included students, educational and curriculum programs, higher education policies, university policies, faculty members, and facilities. Output factors included the unemployment of engineering graduates (job problems and migration of engineering elites) and the separation of engineering universities from the industry (shortcomings of the university and the industry). Outcome factors included the impact of social and cultural conditions, as well as economic and political conditions on engineering education graduates. In the end, based on the obtained results, executive suggestions for revising policies and improving the quality of engineering education have been proposed.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Engineering education
  • quality of higher education
  • content analysis
  • quantity of higher education
  • scoping review
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