EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH QUARTERLY
Year:2012 | Volume:3 | Issue:4 (12)|Papers Count:8

Nowadays, Computers play a vital role in information systems of managements. They facilitate the process of decision making. They can be used in different fields. Computers are widely used in industry. This is why the present era has been called communication and computer era. This machine gathers data and analyzes them and spread the while it save time and money. There is no industrial field which keeps on surviving without applying computer services. The computers are also used to predict the future of commerce, weather, traffic, and accumulate and save the related data. It can be said that computers are electronic devices which are at the service of human beings.

The research purpose is to assess the proportion of intelligence and creativity in the prediction of entrepreneurial power of graduates of Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch. Entrepreneurship is considered a process through which individuals identify opportunities, allocate resources, and create values. The population of the study comprises all the B.A. Students studying in the Islamic Azad University, Roudehen branch in the two academic years of 2008-2009 and 2009-2010, out of which a sample of 250 individuals was randomly selected through applying the stratified sampling. The data were gathered by administering the following questionnaires: Reyven Intelligence Test, Abedi's 60- Item Creativity Test, and the Comprehensive Entrepreneurship Test. Findings revealed that: intelligence and creativity are significant at the 0.01 level in the prediction of entrepreneurial power; however, creativity shares the greatest amount in the prediction of the entrepreneurial power, proving that the intelligence is not statistically significant in the prediction of entrepreneurial power; the graduates of different educational majors demonstrate differing proportion of intelligence, creativity. Amongst the English Literature students, creativity is significant in predicting the entrepreneurial power of the graduates, whereas, the predictive value is possessed by intelligence among the computer Engineering graduates. Moreover intelligence, creativity and entrepreneurial power are significant at the 0.01 level among the graduates of Librarianship; whereas, no correlation is observed among the above-mentioned variables in the graduates of Counseling.

Nowadays, a new issue has been discussed which has been labeled as efficient management. Today, the productivity is the most important goal of all managers. Based on this fact, the experts believe that, time management enjoys being one of the terms observed in order to attain efficiency. The present study investigates the effect of individual skills of time management and its 6 related dimensions on organizational skill of managers in Islamic Azad University, Zone 8. The tool used in this research is the questionnaire of individual and organizational skills and their 6 dimensions. The population consisted 140 managers. The results showed that: 1) there is a significant relationship between individual and organizational skills of time management; 2) there is a significant relationship between individual skill of time management and the 6 dimensions of organizational management; 3) The score extracted from female managers is higher than the scores obtained from the skills of male managers. Finally, the results showed that regarding organizational skill of time management, female managers enjoy higher scores than their male colleagues.

The research purpose is to identify the characteristics of empowered schools and the degree of adaption of high schools with these characteristics in Tehran City. Research method was mixed (quantitative and qualitative). The research population included all Tehran high school teachers (1196 people) and students (95789 people). The sample was chosen according to Morgan Table, and included 377students, and 291 teachers, and it was selected by cluster and stratified random sampling methods of five zones (Include: North, south, center, East, and west). Regarding the qualitative aspect of the research, the researcher interviewed many experts, faculty members of educational sciences, teachers and students. Data were gathered through a researcher-made questionnaire included 84 questions and 13 indicators based on five scales and unstructured interview. Data gathered has been analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics methods. The results showed that empowered schools have 12 indicators. In the principals’ and teachers’ viewpoints, Tehran high schools adapted above average with supported control, having educational space and equipment and having empowered teachers. But In the students’ viewpoint, high schools adapted above average with open climate, social support, supported control, live skills training, and having empowered teachers.

With the formation of knowledge-based society and moving towards a knowledge-based economy, the importance of knowledge, as one of the most important assets of organizations, is becoming more and more apparent. Quantity and quality of knowledge management in any organization determine its competitive power as well as its success rate. Despite the fact that universities are one of the most important centers of production and dissemination of knowledge, however, there has not been enough attention to intellectual capital and resources produced by the academic community. Information specialists can have a significant role in the establishment of knowledge management in organizations through using their skills, organizing, and disseminating information. This paper will investigate existing viewpoints on weaknesses and strengths of Information specialists who participate in knowledge management teams. In this paper, first, some definitions related to knowledge management and its brief history is presented. Then, the differences between information management, knowledge management and necessity of applying knowledge management in universities are studied. Finally, KM models and the role of the Information specialists in knowledge management is studied.

The purpose of present research is to study faculty members’ viewpoints of Islamic Azad University, Rudehen Branch towards applying metacognition in different aspects of university affairs and activities in 2010-2011. The research method was descriptive, and the sampling method was relatively random stratified. In order to do the research, 178 faculty members were chosen by Gerjsey and Morgan Tables. Data were collected by conducting a researcher-made questionnaire. Through descriptive methods, frequency, percentile, mean, standard deviation were estimated and one-sample t-test, independent t-test wers estimated by applying SPSS. Results showed that planning for university duties and activities, self-controlling, self-evaluating, self-initiating and having goal of staff based on achieving university goals are major metacognitive components. Of course, these priorities were obtained by the given population, they may differ in other universities or some new priorities may be added.

The purpose of the present research was the study of the resources needed to strengthen the role of the university in National Innovation System from the professors’ viewpoints in Semnan University. A university in association with other components of National Innovation System, i.e., industry and government needs resources such as: Government’s big policy-making, cultural, economic, technological, and scientific resources. Using the literature review, a researcher-made questionnaire was used to gather the data descriptively in 2011 among 231 faculty members of Semnan University of whom 145 subjects were randomly selected as research sample. The collected data were analyzed by using T-test statistical procedure. Based on the resources priorities, the options were:1- economic 2- technological 3- scientific 4– government’s big policy-making, and 5- cultural.

The purpose of the present research was to investigate the comparison of family function with marital satisfaction among employed and unemployed married women in Tehran. In order to do the research, 200 married women (100 employed and unemployed) participated in this study, and completed two questionnaires (FAD and ENRICH). T.Test and Person Correlation Coefficient were used for analyzing the data. The results showed that there are significant differences (p<0.001) between two groups. Also, the significant differences (p<0.001) were found between family function and marital satisfaction.