The Study of Effective Factors on Improving the Quality of Education: Case Study in College of Agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina Universty

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Abstract: According to both the importance of agricultural higher education system in all dimensions of human, economic, and agricultural development and the necessity of ensuring its optimal performance, the purpose of this paper is to study the effective factors on improving the quality of education in agricultural higher education system. The target population of this study includes all B.Sc. and M.Sc. students of Bu-Ali Sina University in the last academic year of their education 2015-2016 (N= 250). Of those students, 140 people were selected by random sampling method and then required data were gathered by a questionnaire tool. The data were analyzed by both descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis tests. The results showed that the quality of higher education among the target groups was at an average level. Among the effective factors on improving the quality of education, two factors include students and faculty members' status were at the average level and two factors educational facilities and educational content were relatively poor. Regression analysis showed that three variables of faculty members, students, and educational content explained 50.7 percent of dependent's variance (higher education quality). Also, the proportion of faculty members’ variable was more than any other variables and after that, students and educational content had a smaller proportion in explaining the dependent variable, respectively.

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Higher Education Letter
Volume 10, Issue 37
June 2017
Pages 79-110

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