Evaluation the Acceptability of Secondary Teacher’s 10 Professional Standards (Accrediting Study)

This study aimed to investigating in accrediting of secondary teacher’s ten professional standards among public high school teachers as field study. The research method was quantitative survey study. The validation instrument was five-item LIKERT scale questionnaire contained indices and components of teacher’s professional standards model that the calculated reliability with Cronbach’s Alpha in pilot study was 0/96. Data analysis with using descriptive and inferential statistics showed that teachers have confirmed and ranked the standards and their indices in different levels so that the std.7 (knowledge and skills for technology use in classroom) had top rank and the std.10 (teacher’s pedagogic approaches) had the lowest rating from secondary teachers viewpoints. Keywords: professional standards, public high school teachers, validation

Scale Development and Validation for Measuring Organizational Readiness in order to Implement Social Intranet (A Study in Fars Regional Electric Company)

One of the organizations’ concerns is their awareness about the degree of readiness for implementing social intranet. In response to this problem, a 48 item questionnaire was developed. Fars Regional Electric Company consisting of 820 human resources was selected as statistical population. By systematic random method, 262 personnel were determined as sample and the developed questionnaire were distributed among them. Construct validity was measured by conformity factor analysis and reliability of questionnaire was measured by Cronbach’s alpha and finally 43 item were confirmed. Results showed that Fars Regional Electric Company enjoys the proper organizational culture, policy and procedure and organizational resource, but personal experience of people in social intranet area is low and organizational structure also doesn't have necessary characteristics for implementation of social intranet. Finally suggestions were introduced for improving company readiness in implementation of social intranet