چکیده:
Today, skills are the key element in organizational success and personal development and is considered a key factor in deployment of human resources in the market. The purpose of current study was examining students’ basic skills in global age era. This study was a descriptive survey. The statistical population was consisted of Shahid Chamran University students in the academic year 2010-11. Sampling method was stratified random sampling including 334 students in Humanities, Basic Sciences, Agriculture, Engineering and Veterinary. The research instrument was a researcher made questionnaire with a reliability of. 89. The results showed that students ‘skills at this university are about average (3.42).Computer literacy had lowest and teamwork had highest averages. There was significant difference in students’ skills from the desirable level. So that, the means of responsibility and team-working skills were significantly above average. But the means of communication, problem solving, flexibility skills, and computer literacy were less than average. In addition, the results showed that there were significant differences between male and female students in communication, responsibility, and team-working. Furthermore there were significant differences between students’ major and year of studying
خلاصه ماشینی:
In such an environment where thinking and intellect are considered valuable, societies achieve development if they possess a human resource that has thought, ideas, and value creation; possesses skills and expertise in specific and higher-level fields; is flexible in the face of transformations; is capable of independent and continuous learning; is aware of cultural, social, environmental characteristics and issues, and moral and spiritual values; possesses a civic spirit of participatory and active engagement and, finally, is capable of critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills, achieving maximum productivity (Bourn, 2009; Rezaei & Hosseini Largani, MirArab, 2008, p.
Generally, success in a knowledge-based economy requires proficiency in a set of new knowledge and abilities, such as educational or academic skills like literacy, knowing and mastering a foreign language, mathematics, scientific skills, and the ability to use information and communication technology, communication skills, and working with heterogeneous individuals (World Bank, translated by Emadzadeh, 2003; Kesaeian, 2009, p.
In the present research, as a step in this regard, some of the basic skills of the global era, including responsibility, communication skills, problem-solving, flexibility, computer skills, and teamwork ability, have been investigated and evaluated in students of Shahid Chamran University.
Since our assumption was that the level of each of the essential skills of the era of globalization, such as responsibility, communication, flexibility, computer literacy skills, and teamwork, varies among students, therefore, this research has four hypotheses, which are discussed in detail in the findings section along with the results obtained from them.
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