A study on the Influential Variables in The Development of Research in Physical Education in Iran’s Ministry of Education

Authors

1 (PhD)1, Azad University of Shahrerey

2 (PhD), Tarbiat Moallem university

Abstract

The aim of this research was identifying and prioritizing the variables influential on the development of research in physical education in Iran’s ministry of education. The research population consisted of 546 physical education experts working in Iran’s ministry of education. The sample includes360 experts, i.e.,64 percent of the research population. This is a descriptive reasearch, and the data are gathered through field method. The nesessary information have been collected through the library study and questionnaire. To prepare the questionnare, the primary information was collected through Delphi method, and then it’s questions were analyzed through factor analysis. In this research, the reliability of the questionnaire has been checked by the Cronbach alpha procedure (0/88 ). The descriptive statistic methods (frequency, percent, mean and standard deviation) and factor analasis have been utilized to analyse the data. The findings indicated that among organizational elements, the existence of comprehensive rules and regulations for a principled and continuous support of researches, among financial elements, increasing reaserch feas corresponding to teaching payment in the ministry of education, and among perfessional elements, the familiarity of the ministry of education’s physical education researchers with using the research facilities, information technology and labraory, and finally among individual and social elements, training skillful physical education researchers at Iran’s universities are the most important factors for developing physical education researches at the ministry of education.  

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