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Papers by Ali K. Taskoh

Research paper thumbnail of A Critical Policy Analysis of Internationalization in Postsecondary Education : An Ontario Case Study

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Note: March Issue

Nashrīyyah-i muhandisī-i naqshah/bardārī va iṭṭilā̒āt-i makānī, Mar 1, 2024

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Note: March Issue

Journal of Higher Education Policy And Leadership Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Linking Theory and Practice in Educational Management: Exploring School Principals' Interaction with University Professors

Journal of School Administration, Sep 23, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Urgent Changes to Be Made in Iran’s Primary Education: Voices From Teachers

ECNU Review of Education, 2022

Highlights One of the main shortcomings of the Iranian educational system is its focus on trainin... more Highlights One of the main shortcomings of the Iranian educational system is its focus on training students to succeed in different testing/assessment practices. In this regard, primary emphasis is still placed on memorization rather than learning dialogue, collaboration, tolerance, and life expectation for today’s globalized communities. Few voices from Iranian teachers have been heard in international publications. This study collected focus group interviews from 84 Iranian primary school teachers in Tehran, Shiraz, and Yazd. Findings show that the interviewed teachers agreed on the urgent curriculum changes, including English, Law, and Entrepreneurship in the primary teaching. Additionally, the educational focus should be broadened from the current emphasis on assessment from the early years of schooling.

Research paper thumbnail of An Effective Framework For the Professional Development of Primary School Principals

Journal of School Administration, Jul 1, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of In Search of an Effective Framework for the Professional Development of Primary School Principals

Quarterly Journal of Training and Development of Human Resources, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of An exploration of the organizational structure components of universities of medical sciences in transition to third generation university

Journal of Birjand University of Medical Sciences, 2018

Background and Aim: A third generation university is characterized by three significant missions,... more Background and Aim: A third generation university is characterized by three significant missions, including the protection and dissemination of human knowledge, research, and paving the ground for the university to play a role in economic and social development. The purpose of this paper was to identify the structural components of medical universities in transition to third generation university. Materials and Methods: This study is a systematic review. The search for the present study was carried out with the keywords of organizational structure, the organizational structure of universities, third generation university, entrepreneurial university, and organizational structure of the third generation university on databanks including ISI, SID, Magiran, ProQuest, sagepub, and PubMed as well as Google Scholar from 1990 to 2017. Afterward, all reviewed articles that had inclusion criteria were studied. Results: A total of 42 articles that were related to the topic were employed. The m...

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Note: June Issue

Journal of Higher Education Policy And Leadership Studies, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of An assessment of the current status of the organizational structure and its dimensions in medical universities for transition to the third generation university

future of medical education journal, 2018

Background: In today's competitive world, it is hardly possible to achieve strategic goals wi... more Background: In today's competitive world, it is hardly possible to achieve strategic goals without having a well-structured organization. Therefore, universities need to focus on improving their organizational structure in order to achieve their goals and sustain their activities. The purpose of this study was to assess the current status of organizational structure dimensions in universities of medical sciences for transition to the third-generation university. Methods: This was a descriptive-analytic study. The statistical population included all managers and healthcare management specialists in universities of medical sciences of the 9th Planning Macro-Region of the country totaling 614 individuals. Using Cochran’s formula, 265 people were selected randomly via stratified random sampling method. To collect data, a researcher-made questionnaire was used, which held 52 items on the 5-point Likert scale. The questionnaire was confirmed by faculty members in terms of formal and c...

Research paper thumbnail of An Appropriate Model for Reducing Educational Inequality in Tehran Elementary Schools

The purpose of this study was to design an appropriate model for reducing educational inequality ... more The purpose of this study was to design an appropriate model for reducing educational inequality in elementary schools in Tehran and it is a combination of exploratory research. The statistical population of the study was all public primary schools in Tehran. The statistical sample in the qualitative section consisted of 14 experts and experts in the field of public education who were selected through snowball sampling and in the quantitative section of Tehran elementary school principals, deputies and experts who were selected by multistage cluster sampling. . Data collection tools included semi-structured interview, questionnaire and researcher-made checklist. The results showed that educational inequality in elementary schools in Tehran includes 7 components, 28 indicators; including: input component including 4 indices, school process component including 6 indices, family context component including 6 indices, output component including 8 indices, individual context Inequality i...

Research paper thumbnail of Sociological problems of university autonomy in Iran; a qualitative study

Quarterly Journal of Research and Planning in Higher Education, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Iranian Students’ Experience of K-12 and Higher Education: Use of Drawings to Convey the Difference Between Ideals and Reality

The Qualitative Report, 2021

The focus of education during K-12 and Higher Education (HE) in Iran is on theoretical empowermen... more The focus of education during K-12 and Higher Education (HE) in Iran is on theoretical empowerment of students; therefore, our students get an illusion of knowing. In fact, what happens is not learning and understanding; rather, it is verbatim transfer of available information in the textbooks into the students’ minds. It might be because the students and teachers (as the main stakeholders of the education) are the least powerful parties within the pyramid of power amongst educational practitioners and policymakers. It means their voice, feedback, needs, and ideologies have no place in the educational decisions and policies. In alignment with the mainstream of the present research; it is an innovative idea to explore the students’ living/ studying experience during K-12, and their ideals and expectations from higher education studies. To do so, we asked 60 university students to portray their experience (in a phenomenological research design) concerning living and studying through K...

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Note: September Issue

Journal of Higher Education Policy And Leadership Studies, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of The required specifications of a fourth-generation university to shape innovation district under anchor approach: a meta-synthesis analysis using text mining

International Journal of Innovation Science, 2021

Purpose This paper aims to introduce a conceptual model for the shaping of the innovation distric... more Purpose This paper aims to introduce a conceptual model for the shaping of the innovation district under the anchor approach by extracting the specifications of the fourth-generation university. Design/methodology/approach This study selected 550 resources and reduced them to 190 to achieve the most appropriate resources. This study used a meta-synthesis analysis approach using a text-mining method due to the multidisciplinary and voluminous nature of contents. Findings The results first reveal the shaping process and the components of innovation districts, which are: innovational urban infrastructures, knowledge economy and competitiveness and academic development. Second, this study also shows the specifications of a fourth-generation university to shape innovation districts. Practical implications This study also informs the policymakers and researchers internationally about the implementation requirements of a fourth-generation university and the shaping mechanisms of an innovat...

Research paper thumbnail of Teacher’s Narration of Teaching Critical Literacy: It’s a KEY for Raising Students’ Awareness in Iran

Multidisciplinary Journal of Educational Research, 2020

To be literate, students need to able to think critically and read between the lines to find the ... more To be literate, students need to able to think critically and read between the lines to find the implicit meanings and ideologies. To help Iranian English language learners learn writing as a social action and not independent of social (in)justices and (in)equalities, we included critical literacy in a writing course at the University of [for anonymity]. We intend to illuminate teacher’s narration about raising students’ awareness towards (mal)practices, (in)justices, and (in)equalities of the society in their writings.To do so, all 52 undergraduate 3rd-year-EFL learners of English Literature and Translation participated in our writing class. The teacher was also an associate professor (50 years old) with critical literacy as his main area of research. Students were required to write essays as mid-term and final exams. The teacher’s reflection on the course in general and on the EFL learners’ reflective essays highlighted that teaching writing through critical literacy helped studen...

Research paper thumbnail of Current Status of Faculty Development of Medical Sciences Universities in Iran: A Qualitative Study

Educational Research in Medical Sciences, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of The Components of the Development of Faculty Members at Universities of Medical Sciences in Iran and the World: A Systematic Review

Educational Research in Medical Sciences, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Note: December Issue

Journal of Higher Education Policy And Leadership Studies, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Internationalization in Canadian Higher Education Institutions: Ontario

Higher Education for the Future, 2020

Education is a tool for collaboration among nations. The emergence of concepts as internationaliz... more Education is a tool for collaboration among nations. The emergence of concepts as internationalization of educational policies, students-staff exchange programs, internationalization of curriculum, internationalization at home (IAH) or even the emergence of multinational agencies to expedite global exchanges in the realm of Higher Education lead educational policy-makers to confess that segregation of the educational policies from nations’ foreign affairs policies have no promising results than failure of the nations’ educational goals and priorities. Based on the qualitative and case study research methodologies, we adopted critical policy analysis (CPA) to address the question of “why does a Canadian public university engage in internationalization?”. The study showed that the decision to acknowledge internationalization as a priority at a public university in Ontario is based upon different motives ranging from commercial-economic and socio-political to academic-educational and p...

Research paper thumbnail of A Critical Policy Analysis of Internationalization in Postsecondary Education : An Ontario Case Study

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Note: March Issue

Nashrīyyah-i muhandisī-i naqshah/bardārī va iṭṭilā̒āt-i makānī, Mar 1, 2024

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Note: March Issue

Journal of Higher Education Policy And Leadership Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Linking Theory and Practice in Educational Management: Exploring School Principals' Interaction with University Professors

Journal of School Administration, Sep 23, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Urgent Changes to Be Made in Iran’s Primary Education: Voices From Teachers

ECNU Review of Education, 2022

Highlights One of the main shortcomings of the Iranian educational system is its focus on trainin... more Highlights One of the main shortcomings of the Iranian educational system is its focus on training students to succeed in different testing/assessment practices. In this regard, primary emphasis is still placed on memorization rather than learning dialogue, collaboration, tolerance, and life expectation for today’s globalized communities. Few voices from Iranian teachers have been heard in international publications. This study collected focus group interviews from 84 Iranian primary school teachers in Tehran, Shiraz, and Yazd. Findings show that the interviewed teachers agreed on the urgent curriculum changes, including English, Law, and Entrepreneurship in the primary teaching. Additionally, the educational focus should be broadened from the current emphasis on assessment from the early years of schooling.

Research paper thumbnail of An Effective Framework For the Professional Development of Primary School Principals

Journal of School Administration, Jul 1, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of In Search of an Effective Framework for the Professional Development of Primary School Principals

Quarterly Journal of Training and Development of Human Resources, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of An exploration of the organizational structure components of universities of medical sciences in transition to third generation university

Journal of Birjand University of Medical Sciences, 2018

Background and Aim: A third generation university is characterized by three significant missions,... more Background and Aim: A third generation university is characterized by three significant missions, including the protection and dissemination of human knowledge, research, and paving the ground for the university to play a role in economic and social development. The purpose of this paper was to identify the structural components of medical universities in transition to third generation university. Materials and Methods: This study is a systematic review. The search for the present study was carried out with the keywords of organizational structure, the organizational structure of universities, third generation university, entrepreneurial university, and organizational structure of the third generation university on databanks including ISI, SID, Magiran, ProQuest, sagepub, and PubMed as well as Google Scholar from 1990 to 2017. Afterward, all reviewed articles that had inclusion criteria were studied. Results: A total of 42 articles that were related to the topic were employed. The m...

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Note: June Issue

Journal of Higher Education Policy And Leadership Studies, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of An assessment of the current status of the organizational structure and its dimensions in medical universities for transition to the third generation university

future of medical education journal, 2018

Background: In today's competitive world, it is hardly possible to achieve strategic goals wi... more Background: In today's competitive world, it is hardly possible to achieve strategic goals without having a well-structured organization. Therefore, universities need to focus on improving their organizational structure in order to achieve their goals and sustain their activities. The purpose of this study was to assess the current status of organizational structure dimensions in universities of medical sciences for transition to the third-generation university. Methods: This was a descriptive-analytic study. The statistical population included all managers and healthcare management specialists in universities of medical sciences of the 9th Planning Macro-Region of the country totaling 614 individuals. Using Cochran’s formula, 265 people were selected randomly via stratified random sampling method. To collect data, a researcher-made questionnaire was used, which held 52 items on the 5-point Likert scale. The questionnaire was confirmed by faculty members in terms of formal and c...

Research paper thumbnail of An Appropriate Model for Reducing Educational Inequality in Tehran Elementary Schools

The purpose of this study was to design an appropriate model for reducing educational inequality ... more The purpose of this study was to design an appropriate model for reducing educational inequality in elementary schools in Tehran and it is a combination of exploratory research. The statistical population of the study was all public primary schools in Tehran. The statistical sample in the qualitative section consisted of 14 experts and experts in the field of public education who were selected through snowball sampling and in the quantitative section of Tehran elementary school principals, deputies and experts who were selected by multistage cluster sampling. . Data collection tools included semi-structured interview, questionnaire and researcher-made checklist. The results showed that educational inequality in elementary schools in Tehran includes 7 components, 28 indicators; including: input component including 4 indices, school process component including 6 indices, family context component including 6 indices, output component including 8 indices, individual context Inequality i...

Research paper thumbnail of Sociological problems of university autonomy in Iran; a qualitative study

Quarterly Journal of Research and Planning in Higher Education, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Iranian Students’ Experience of K-12 and Higher Education: Use of Drawings to Convey the Difference Between Ideals and Reality

The Qualitative Report, 2021

The focus of education during K-12 and Higher Education (HE) in Iran is on theoretical empowermen... more The focus of education during K-12 and Higher Education (HE) in Iran is on theoretical empowerment of students; therefore, our students get an illusion of knowing. In fact, what happens is not learning and understanding; rather, it is verbatim transfer of available information in the textbooks into the students’ minds. It might be because the students and teachers (as the main stakeholders of the education) are the least powerful parties within the pyramid of power amongst educational practitioners and policymakers. It means their voice, feedback, needs, and ideologies have no place in the educational decisions and policies. In alignment with the mainstream of the present research; it is an innovative idea to explore the students’ living/ studying experience during K-12, and their ideals and expectations from higher education studies. To do so, we asked 60 university students to portray their experience (in a phenomenological research design) concerning living and studying through K...

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Note: September Issue

Journal of Higher Education Policy And Leadership Studies, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of The required specifications of a fourth-generation university to shape innovation district under anchor approach: a meta-synthesis analysis using text mining

International Journal of Innovation Science, 2021

Purpose This paper aims to introduce a conceptual model for the shaping of the innovation distric... more Purpose This paper aims to introduce a conceptual model for the shaping of the innovation district under the anchor approach by extracting the specifications of the fourth-generation university. Design/methodology/approach This study selected 550 resources and reduced them to 190 to achieve the most appropriate resources. This study used a meta-synthesis analysis approach using a text-mining method due to the multidisciplinary and voluminous nature of contents. Findings The results first reveal the shaping process and the components of innovation districts, which are: innovational urban infrastructures, knowledge economy and competitiveness and academic development. Second, this study also shows the specifications of a fourth-generation university to shape innovation districts. Practical implications This study also informs the policymakers and researchers internationally about the implementation requirements of a fourth-generation university and the shaping mechanisms of an innovat...

Research paper thumbnail of Teacher’s Narration of Teaching Critical Literacy: It’s a KEY for Raising Students’ Awareness in Iran

Multidisciplinary Journal of Educational Research, 2020

To be literate, students need to able to think critically and read between the lines to find the ... more To be literate, students need to able to think critically and read between the lines to find the implicit meanings and ideologies. To help Iranian English language learners learn writing as a social action and not independent of social (in)justices and (in)equalities, we included critical literacy in a writing course at the University of [for anonymity]. We intend to illuminate teacher’s narration about raising students’ awareness towards (mal)practices, (in)justices, and (in)equalities of the society in their writings.To do so, all 52 undergraduate 3rd-year-EFL learners of English Literature and Translation participated in our writing class. The teacher was also an associate professor (50 years old) with critical literacy as his main area of research. Students were required to write essays as mid-term and final exams. The teacher’s reflection on the course in general and on the EFL learners’ reflective essays highlighted that teaching writing through critical literacy helped studen...

Research paper thumbnail of Current Status of Faculty Development of Medical Sciences Universities in Iran: A Qualitative Study

Educational Research in Medical Sciences, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of The Components of the Development of Faculty Members at Universities of Medical Sciences in Iran and the World: A Systematic Review

Educational Research in Medical Sciences, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Note: December Issue

Journal of Higher Education Policy And Leadership Studies, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Internationalization in Canadian Higher Education Institutions: Ontario

Higher Education for the Future, 2020

Education is a tool for collaboration among nations. The emergence of concepts as internationaliz... more Education is a tool for collaboration among nations. The emergence of concepts as internationalization of educational policies, students-staff exchange programs, internationalization of curriculum, internationalization at home (IAH) or even the emergence of multinational agencies to expedite global exchanges in the realm of Higher Education lead educational policy-makers to confess that segregation of the educational policies from nations’ foreign affairs policies have no promising results than failure of the nations’ educational goals and priorities. Based on the qualitative and case study research methodologies, we adopted critical policy analysis (CPA) to address the question of “why does a Canadian public university engage in internationalization?”. The study showed that the decision to acknowledge internationalization as a priority at a public university in Ontario is based upon different motives ranging from commercial-economic and socio-political to academic-educational and p...