Evaluation of the Professional Ethics Status of the Teachers in Sanandaj Islamic Azad University  in 2017

Jadidi, Dr. Hoshang; Esmaeili, Mohsen; Mohammadian Nasrabadi, Seyed Esmaeil; Soltani Rad, Zohreh; Ozami, Masoud; Almasi, Farid; Zizi, Keyvan

Evaluation of the Professional Ethics Status of the Teachers in Sanandaj Islamic Azad University in 2017

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, IRAN.

² Master of Political Science, Education Teacher, Kermanshah, IRAN.

³ Master of Science in Clinical Psychology, Qasr-e-Shirin Department of Health, IRAN.

⁴ High School Administration, Education Boroujerd, IRAN.

⁵ Managing Director of Foreign Languages Training Center, Karaj, IRAN.

⁶ Master of Science in Technology, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah Branch, IRAN.

⁷ Ph.D. student in English Language, Teacher of Education, Sarpul Zahab, IRAN.

Abstract

The professional teaching ethics of the instructors in universities will cause improvements in education in every country. So, the present study tries to evaluate the status of the professors’ professional ethics. The present study was a descriptive cross-sectional study. The population of the study includes all students in Sanadaj Islamic Azad University. Randomly , 200 individuals were selected as the statistical sample. Data were collected by the standard questionnaire of professional teaching ethics by Sobhaninejad and his colleagues in the form of 48 items and 6 components. Data were analyzed using SPSS 21 software. The findings showed the order of the scores got in each trait from the highest to the lowest one as follows: the highest score of professional ethics of teachers in personality traits dimension was (3.78) at the desired level and the next score was in the mastery of teaching methods (3.04)which followed by observance of educational rules with score ( 2.97), the aristocratic dimension on the score (2.5) at the relatively desirable level, the recognition of the different aspects of the learner with the score (2.6), the standard rating with the score (1.93) were at an unfavorable level. The average score of the six factors of teachers' professional ethics evauation showed that the group received a score of 2.33 points out of a total score of 5, and was ranked in a relatively favorable situation based on the ranking criterion.

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