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Purpose: Considering the role and importance of knowledge and its transfer in education, the purpose of this research was to investigating the inefficiency causes of education in the field of knowledge transfer. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was from type of applied and in terms of implementation method was from type of qualitative. The research population was education specialists, principals, teachers, parents and high school students of Iran in the 2019-20 academic years. The sample size was considered 20 people which from each of the five group number of 4 people were selected as a sample by available sampling method. The research tool was a semi-structured interview whose validity was confirmed by the triangulation method and its reliability was obtained by the agreement coefficient method between the two coders 0.87. Data were analyzed by open, axial and selective coding method in MAXQDA software. Findings: The results showed that the inefficiency causes of educational institution in the field of knowledge transfer had 184 open codes or indicator, 16 axial codes or component and 7 selected codes or categorical. The category of objective had two components of human education and training, the category of teacher had four components of material and spiritual rights, selection, moral commitment and professional commitment, the category of student had two components of motivation and learning, the category of curriculum had two components of content and curriculum and settings, categories of educational methods had two components of teaching methods and teaching aids equipment, the category of educational environment had two components of educational space and secondary education space and the student's psychological category had two components of family and social status. Finally, based on them a pattern of inefficiency causes of education in the field of knowledge transfer was designed. Conclusion: According to the identified indicators, components and categories for the inefficiency causes of education in the field of knowledge transfer, planning is necessary to reduce the inefficiency of the mentioned institution in the field of knowledge transfer.

Performance testing including the use of rating scales has become widespread in the evaluation of second/foreign oral language assessment. However, no study has used Multifaceted Rasch Measurement (MFRM) including the facets of test takers’ ability, raters’ severity, group expertise, and scale category, in one study. 20 EFL teachers scored the speaking performance of 200 test-takers prior and subsequent to a rater training program using an analytic rating scale consisting of fluency, grammar, vocabulary, intelligibility, cohesion, and comprehension categories. The outcome demonstrated that the categories were at different levels of difficulty even after the training program. However, this outcome by no means indicated the uselessness of the training program since data analysis reflected the constructive influence of training in providing enough consistency in raters’ rating of each category of the rating scale at the post-training phase. Such an outcome indicated that raters could discriminate the various categories of the rating scale. The outcomes also indicated that MFRM can result in enhancement in rater training and functionality validation of the rating scale descriptors. The training helped raters use the descriptors of the rating scale more efficiently of its various band descriptors resulting in a reduced halo effect. The findings conveyed that stakeholders had better establish training programs to assist raters in better use of the rating scale categories of various levels of difficulty in an appropriate way. Further research could be done to make a comparative analysis between the outcome of this study and the one using a holistic rating scale in oral assessment.