خلاصة:
The current research is focused on the design of objectives and contents of “physical and chemical separation methods” course for the master’s level in analytical chemistry. This is an applied, descriptive and survey research. Statistical population is composed of professors, Master’s and Ph. D. students, and researchers of analytical chemistry field in 2015, which 315 of them have been chosen as sample. Sampling method was purposive, voluntary, and avilable. In this research, a questionnaire has been used as a data collection tool. At the beginning, regarding study of previous researches and library resources, a number of objectives and contents was selected. After revising and applying viewpoints of 12 professors and Ph.D students, the final questionnaire consisting of 11 objectives (or chapter) and 90 contents was provided. Content validity of the aforementioned tool was investigated by supervising these professor and experts. In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used. Kruskal-Wallis and Wilcoxon nonparametric tests were used. Results have shown that the questioners were interested in the proposed designed objectives and contents. All tests were performed at 95% confidence level.
ملخص الجهاز:
The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire based on the syllabus of this course in different countries, whose content validity was examined using the opinions of 12 professors and experts in the field of "Physical and Chemical Separation Methods" and PhD students; ultimately, 11 goals (chapters) and 90 contents (subheadings) were selected as the main questions of the questionnaire.
Research shows that the process of developing university curricula at the Universities of Adelaide1, Pretoria2, and Free State University3 has a high degree of alignment with the process of curriculum development in Iran and is an upward process; meaning, curriculum development begins at the level of the academic group or department and is implemented upon approval by the university council (Group of Comparative Studies and Innovation in Higher Education, 1378).
5 using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test in Table (3) shows that all the proposed goals and contents from the respondents (professors, students, and researchers) are suitable for presentation in the curriculum of "Physical and Chemical Methods of Separation" at the Master's level in Analytical Chemistry, and the median opinion of the respondents is higher than the average value of 2.
Research Suggestions Investigating the views of professors and students regarding teaching methods, evaluation, and instructional materials for the course Physical and Chemical Separation Methods Revising the curriculum of other courses in the Master's program of Analytical Chemistry Revising this course in accordance with the needs of society and industries References Adib Hajbagheri, Mohsen and Lotfi, Mohammad Sajjad (2015).
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