The Curriculum of the Curriculum Planning Major for Empowering University Students

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Master's degree in Curriculum Planning, Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan, Tabriz, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan, Tabriz, Iran.

Abstract

The aim of the current research was to examine the curriculum of the field of curriculum planning of Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan in empowering students in terms of technical, executive, knowledge and attitudinal skills. The research design was practical in terms of purpose, descriptive survey in terms of nature, and quantitative in terms of approach. The statistical population of the present study included 122 students of curriculum planning courses in the master's course of Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan in the last seven years the formal and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts. The reliability of the whole questionnaire was estimated based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.978. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data, and a sample t-tech test was used to answer the research questions. The results showed that the average curriculum of curriculum planning in empowering students was equal to 3.40. Also, the results revealed that there is a significant difference at the significance level of 0.05 between the curriculum average in empowering students in terms of technical, executive, knowledge and attitude skills with a desirable average (4) and the average obtained in all four skills is less.

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