Construction and Validation of a Questionnaire on Professional Ethics of University Faculty Members With an Emphasis on the specific Characteristics of Iranian Higher Education
Akhlāq-i zīstī i.e., Bioethics Journal,
Vol. 15 No. 40 (1404),
14 July 2025
,
Page 1-17
https://doi.org/10.22037/bioeth.v15i40.49654
Abstract
Background and Aim: The professional ethics of university faculty members plays an important role in advancing the educational goals of the higher education system. In the meantime, it is important to consider creating a tool for measuring the professional ethics of faculty members that, while paying attention to the cultural foundations of the country, includes various educational, organizational, individual, social, and research dimensions. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to develop and validate a tool for measuring the professional ethics of university faculty members.
Methods: The research method in the quantitative part is descriptive-survey and the correlation analysis method is variance-covariance matrix analysis. The target population of the present study was faculty members and students of Birjand University, who were selected through multi-stage cluster sampling method, 310 students from different undergraduate, master's and doctoral programs.
Ethical Considerations: In writing the article, ethical aspects including preserving the originality of the texts, honesty, and trustworthiness have been observed.
Findings: Factor analysis using principal component analysis and principal component rotation revealed 5 dimensions including the individual ethics dimension with the highest share of explaining the total variance (35.87), the organizational ethics dimension with a share of about 24 percent in explaining the total variance, the ethical dimension in the educational process with a share of 18.5 percent in explaining the total variance, The socio-cultural ethics dimension was identified with 4.5% of the total variance explained and the research ethics dimension with about 4% of the total variance explained. These 5 main factors explain about 87% of the variance in the professional ethics of university faculty members with 74 items.
Conclusion: The results showed that the professional ethics of university faculty members were organized into five axes: individual, organizational, educational, social, and research. Therefore, this issue should be considered when preparing a charter of ethics for faculty members.
- Professional ethic
- Faculty members
- University
- Higher Education
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