Academic Librarianship and Information Research

Academic Librarianship and Information Research

A Comparative Study of Professional Development of PhD Students of ‘Information and Knowledge Studies’ and ‘Educational Administration’

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Abbas Abbas Pour 1
Hamid Rahimian 2
Javad PourKarimi 3
Hossein Taghavi 4
1 Associate Professor, Allameh Tabatabai University
2 Assistant Professor, Allameh Tabatabai University
3 Assistant Professor, Tehran University
4 PhD student, Allameh Tabatabai University
10.22059/jlib.2013.36212
Abstract
Objective: the present study aims to determine and compare the professional development status of PhD students of ‘Information and Knowledge Studies’ and ‘Educational Administration’ courses
Methodology: The present study is an applied research in terms of aim, and is a descriptive-survey research in terms of data collection. The population of this study consists of PhD students of ‘Information and Knowledge Studies’ and ‘Educational Administration’ courses, among which 117 students were selected using relational random sampling.
Findings: The results of this research and comparing the mean score of students of both courses revealed that students of ‘Information and Knowledge Studies’ in contrast with students of ‘educational administrations’ was significantly greater in communication, ethical behavior, team-working and career management. The mean score of the two groups was significantly different in two other components of professional development, i.e. research management and civic accountability, and the mean obtained for students of ‘Information and Knowledge Studies’ in these two components is significantly lower than that of ‘educational administrations’ students.
The mean scores for two groups in entrepreneurship & creativity, self-efficiency, teaching, interpreting and transferring knowledge were not significantly different. 
Keywords
educational administrations
Information Science and Knowledge Studies
PhD students
professional development