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.
Abbas Pour, A., Rahimian, H., PourKarimi, J., & Taghavi, H. (2013). A Comparative Study of Professional Development of PhD Students of ‘Information and Knowledge Studies’ and ‘Educational Administration’. Academic Librarianship and Information Research, 47(1), 65-84. doi: 10.22059/jlib.2013.36212
MLA
Abbas Abbas Pour; Hamid Rahimian; Javad PourKarimi; Hossein Taghavi. "A Comparative Study of Professional Development of PhD Students of ‘Information and Knowledge Studies’ and ‘Educational Administration’". Academic Librarianship and Information Research, 47, 1, 2013, 65-84. doi: 10.22059/jlib.2013.36212
HARVARD
Abbas Pour, A., Rahimian, H., PourKarimi, J., Taghavi, H. (2013). 'A Comparative Study of Professional Development of PhD Students of ‘Information and Knowledge Studies’ and ‘Educational Administration’', Academic Librarianship and Information Research, 47(1), pp. 65-84. doi: 10.22059/jlib.2013.36212
VANCOUVER
Abbas Pour, A., Rahimian, H., PourKarimi, J., Taghavi, H. A Comparative Study of Professional Development of PhD Students of ‘Information and Knowledge Studies’ and ‘Educational Administration’. Academic Librarianship and Information Research, 2013; 47(1): 65-84. doi: 10.22059/jlib.2013.36212
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