INVESTIGATING AND IDENTIFYING THE MOST IMPORTANT  FACTORS AFFECTING THE QUALITY OF TEACHING AND LEARNING OF STUDENTS OF THE RAILWAY ENGINEERING FACULTY

Mosayebi, Seyed Ali; Khani Alamoti, Mahmoud; Samarghandi, Ali; Hojati, Zeinab

doi:10.22047/ijee.2024.475400.2109

INVESTIGATING AND IDENTIFYING THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS AFFECTING THE QUALITY OF TEACHING AND LEARNING OF STUDENTS OF THE RAILWAY ENGINEERING FACULTY

Document Type : Scientific - Research

Authors

Seyed Ali Mosayebi ¹

Mahmoud Khani Alamoti ²

Ali Samarghandi ³

Zeinab Hojati ³

¹ Assistant Professor School of Railway Engineering Iran University of Science and Technology

² PhD candidate in Transportation Engineering, Amirkabir University

³ Bachelor student of railway engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology

https://doi.org/10.22047/ijee.2024.475400.2109

Abstract

Considering the importance of using expert forces in the railway industry, the need to pay attention to learning quality and the factors affecting it in the training of future employees of this industry is undeniable. The aim of the current research is to identify the most important factors affecting the quality of learning and teaching and provide solutions to improve it in the students of the Railway Engineering Faculty. The statistical population was the students studying in the railway faculty of the Iran University of Science and Technology, and finally 132 of them were examined as the sample size obtained from the simple random sampling method. The content validity of the questionnaire was done by a number of professors and experts in this field. The reliability of questionnaire items was also checked with Cronbach’s alpha coefficient and composite reliability, and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was equal to 0.74. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to check the correctness of the relationships considered in the research model. The most important results showed that all five factors of familiarity and satisfaction with the field, practical learning, educational facilities and atmosphere, quality of education and study habits had a significant relationship with the main structure, i.e. the quality of learning and education of students. At the same time, the factor of familiarity and satisfaction with the field had the largest contribution and the factor of educational facilities and environment had the least contribution to the quality of students’ learning and education. At the end, solutions to increase the quality of teaching and learning of students, especially the students of the railway faculty, which were examined as a case study in this research, were presented.

Keywords

Railway college

learning quality

higher education

confirmatory factor analysis

20.1001.1.16072316.1404.27.105.5.5

Subjects

Research on Engineering Education

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