Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Professor, sport management, Allameh Tabatabai University
2 Associate Professor, sport management, Payame Noor University
3 Assistant Professor, sport managment, Payame Noor University
Abstract
The aim of the current research was to design structural pattern of Designing Structural Equation Model of Development Faculty members of Physical Education. The study was descriptive and conducted in square way. The population of this study include faculty members of P.E faculty’s (N=205). All 173 faculty members of P.E faculties were selected as samples of this study. The researcher-made questionnaire of Development was used to collect data, the researcher a list of 22 faculty development, 3dimensions (Professional, Organizational, Personal) and 17 components of this list were confirmed.After interview to the authorities. Each of 17 recognized components is transformed to items of Questionnaire in order to draw the situation of faculty development. The Questionnaires were designed on the basic of 5 likert scales. Validity of two questionnaires was confirmed by 15 experts and their reliability were studied in a preliminary study with 30 subjects and calculated as 0.90, 0.85 and 0.87 respectively. For data analysis the descriptive statistics and inferential statistics methods, including Kolmogorov-Smirnov and T-student test, were used and for determination of the causal relationship between variables the method of by application of LISREL. Graphics V.18 software and SPSS.V.16 were used.
Findings: The analysis supported model fitting to the data. The results showed Their development models Faculty members of Physical Education has desirable goodness ,and relationship model the Professional dimension with coefficient of 0.84, the Personal dimension with coefficient of 0.74, and the Organizational dimension with coefficient of 0.68, have the most roles.
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