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Purpose: The quality of education and research is one of the concerns that academic systems always strive to achieve. Undoubtedly, the existence of leading professors with appropriate scientific and ethical competencies is one of the effective fundamental factors in the quality of higher education systems. Methodology: The general purpose of the present study is to examine the dimensions of leading professors and determine the importance and priority of these goals. In terms of purpose, this research is an application that was done with a mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative) with an exploratory design. In the qualitative approach, the content analysis method was used and in the quantitative approach, the descriptive survey method was used. The statistical population consisted of 20 professors of Babol University of Medical Sciences in the qualitative department and 348 faculty members of Babol University of Medical Sciences in the quantitative department. Taking the saturation law, 10 people and in the quantitative part, based on Cochran's formula, 183 people were selected as a statistical sample using stratified random sampling method based on scientific rank. By analyzing the qualitative data, a researcher-made questionnaire designed by leading professors with 80 questions was designed. Data were analyzed by structural equation modeling in SPSS-23 and PLS-2 software. Findings: The results showed that; Leading professors have three dimensions: "educational, research and individual". Conclusion: Educational dimension with five components (teaching skills, educational technology, education management, evaluation skills and observance of educational rules), research dimension with two components (scholarship and research ethics) and individual dimension with five components (characteristics Appearance is professional ethics, honesty, creativity and discipline) which has a greater impact on the educational dimension with a factor load of 0.963 and a research dimension with a factor load of 0.894.

Teaching media literacy to students pursues several goals, including creating creative, critical, and scrutinizing thinking about the media content and performance, as well as recognizing the visual forms of communication using it, along with other reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. This research aimed to design a curriculum model for media literacy in the second grade of elementary school and to validate it. The research method was qualitative-quantitative and it was applied in terms of purpose. In the qualitative part, the media literacy curriculum model was identified using the synthesis research method based on the analogical model and the Klein model. Then, in order to validate the mentioned components, the obtained information was provided to experts in the field of curriculum planning and media and information management. The scope of the research was in the range of 2006 to 2021 for domestic documents and in the range of 2005 to 2021 for foreign documents. The statistical population in line with the model validation was experts in curriculum planning and media and information management. In order to validate the entire research, the statistical sample consisted of two groups of 10 experts in the field of curriculum planning and media and information management, who were selected based on the minimum number required to evaluate content validity. The data collection method in the validation stage was researcher-made questionnaires. Lawshe’s Content Validity Ratio (CVR) was used to measure the content validity. Results showed that the goals of the media literacy curriculum in the second grade of elementary school include two kind of goals: general goals (achieving Iranian-Islamic media culture) and partial goals (empowering students and teachers). The content of the media literacy curriculum in the second grade of elementary school included functional consumption education, critical consumption education, functional production-consumption education, and critical production-consumption education. The learning-teaching strategies used were presented in two sections: teacher’s activities (teaching method) and students’ activities, and the evaluation element was defined in three levels: students, teachers, and curriculum and educational content. Also, the results showed that the grouping in the media literacy program in the second grade of elementary school should be based on the individual and socioemotional characteristics of the students. The required resources and facilities were continuous improvement of the media literacy curriculum for the second grade of elementary school, compilation of the media literacy textbook for the second grade of elementary school, provision of educational facilities and media training assistance for second grade of elementary school students, and development of research in the field of media education. In choosing the time and place in the media literacy program, time and place flexibility in the presentation of teaching content was emphasized. Based on the results of this research, the suggested model of the media literacy curriculum of the second grade of elementary school can be used and implemented in the education system.

Purpose: Strategic decision-making plays an important role in organizational functions and its effectiveness. As a result, the aim of this study was to identifying and analyzing the dimensions and components of strategic decision-making for the managers of education regions. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative and quantitative). The research population were experts in the field of educational management and human resources management and managers of educational regions of Tehran city in 2021 year, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 14 people of them were selected as a sample with using the purposeful sampling method. The research tool was a semi-structured interview that lasted 75 to 120 minutes, and their validity was confirmed by the triangulation method and their reliability was obtained by the agreement coefficient method between two coders 0.88. The data were analyzed by methods of thematic analysis and DIMTEL technique. Findings: The findings of the qualitative part showed that strategic decision-making for managers of education regions has 98 indicators, 23 components and 10 dimensions were include moral intelligence, individual skills, knowledge of organizational processes, cultural and value skills, knowledge of financial resources, power of change and transformation, knowledge and technology management, human resource management, intelligent planning and training. Also, the findings of the quantitative part showed that the dimensions of human resource management, intelligent planning, cultural and value skills, knowledge of financial resources, knowledge and technology management and training had more effective and the dimensions of knowledge of organizational processes, moral intelligence, individual skills and power of change and transformation had more influence. Conclusion: The findings of this study have practical implications for specialists and planners of educational systems, especially in the education system, and they based on the results of the present study, can take an effective step towards strategic decision-making.