Identification of Constructive Factors of University Implicit Curriculum through Confirma-tory Factor Analysis

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Associate Professor Shiraz University

2 PhD Student Shiraz University

Abstract

The objective of this paper is identification and validation of the constructive factors of implicit university curriculum through sequential exploratory mixed method. Case study was used in the qualitative part. The participants were students of Shiraz University, selected from amongst the students of the humanities, educational administration and planning departments. The qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews with the students, upstream documents, review of related literature, and the existing research by using harmonization method and were analyzed through employment of cyclical process of analysis. The findings of the research indicate that the following seven conceptual codes are the constructive factors of implicit curriculum at the university: rules and regulations, physical structure and architecture, social atmosphere, rules of the game, communications, content and epistemological beliefs.

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