چکیده:
Strategic planning in Iranian universities and institutes of higher education is generally prepared using strategic planning models introduced by experts and other universities. These programs will be published in the form of university strategic planning documents. These documents have such features that can be similar or different than the programming templates used. Existence of the similar properties in documents makes it possible to group them. In this study, we try to use quantitative (Statistical) methods for grouping similar documents into homogeneous groups. For this purpose, the content and formal characteristics of the planning documents of eight different universities, including three governmental University (Tehran, Tarbiat Modares and Ferdowsi), three nongovernmental universities and institutes of higher education (science and culture, Soreh and Ashrafi Esfahani), and two foreign universities (Oxford and The Cornell) has been investigated and the presence or absence of these features has been determined and then Using clustering as a multivariate statistical method, these universities were grouped into 4 different clusters. In order to determine the model which is used in compiling strategic planning documents of the selected universities, the characteristics of 12 different strategic planning models have been studied, and the similarity of each of them with the investigated documents has been determined. The results of this study showed that investigated strategic planning documents were grouped into four groups, and each of these documents probably used a distinctive pattern than the other groups. The result of this quantitative survey can be used as an introduction to the qualitative analysis of the documents under review. In addition, the survey results showed that none of the selected Iranian universities designed their own specific model for strategic planning. In other words, the models used in the planning of the universities under study were generally adaptive and the specific approach for none of the universities was not considered. This matter can challenge the success of universities in the operationalizing of derived planning documents.
خلاصه ماشینی:
com The content and formal characteristics of the planning documents of 8 different universities, including 3 public universities (Tehran, Tarbiat Modares, and Ferdowsi), 3 non-governmental universities and higher education institutions (Elm va Farhang, Sooreh, and Ashrafi Isfahani), and 2 foreign universities (Oxford and Cornell), have been examined, and the presence or absence of these characteristics in the aforementioned documents has been determined.
3. Can universities and higher education institutions be classified into several groups based on the degree of conformity of their strategic planning documents with the help of statistical methods?
In the present research, the application of quantitative statistical methods (descriptive and analytical) in comparing the models and strategic planning documents of universities and their categorization (classification) based on their determining characteristics is addressed.
So far, no proven method for testing the significance of similarity coefficients has been introduced (Choi, Cha and Tepert, 2009); therefore, it seems that by considering boundaries for interpretation between the elements under comparison, a kind of classification between them can be achieved; for example, if the chosen criterion measures the degree of similarity and its maximum value is one, the values can be interpreted in the following table format: Analyzing the differences between university plans using their comparison matrix Assuming that a similarity matrix between university plans is obtained based on a specific criterion, the remaining important issue is the clustering or classification of the elements under comparison (the strategic plans of universities) into various groups.
In response to the third question, which asks "Can universities and higher education institutions be classified into several groups based on the degree of conformity of their strategic planning documents using statistical methods?"; the results of grouping the planning documents of the selected universities based on their content, form, and combination characteristics have yielded different results.
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