Sport Management Studies

Construction and Validation of an Instrument to Determine Effective Factors on Research Productivity in Physical Education and Sport Sciences Faculty Members

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Majid Arji 1
Parivash Nourbakhsh 2
Hossein Sepasi 2
Abas Khodayari 3

1 Ph.D. of Sport Management, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

2 Professor of Sport Management, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22089/smrj.2019.6139.2235
Abstract
Researches show that limited models have been designed to measure the research productivity of higher educationcenters, but so far, no reliable and valid instrument have been provided to measure the research productivity of university faculty members. Identifying effective factors on research productivity is very significant to improve the scientific quality of the faculty and the institution of the interest. The purpose of this study was to construction and validation of an instrument to determine effective factors on research productivity in physical education faculty members. The statistical population of the study consisted of 831 faculty members of physical education and sport sciences of Islamic Azad University. The statistical sample for determining the psychometric indices was 150 people and 300 people were selected by cluster sampling method. Research questionnaire with 29 questions was made based on theoretical bases and gaining expert opinions through a mixed study (qualitative and quantitative)according to structural equation modeling which has consisted of three main factors and nine sub-factors. The results of exploratory and confirmatory factors analysis using Amos software version 23 showed that the instrument are reliable. Therefore, based on the findings of the research, it can be suggested that university administrators can use the questionnaire designed in this research to measure and improving research productivity of their faculty members.

Keywords

Factor Analysis
Instrument Validation
Research Productivity

Subjects

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Sport Management Studies
Volume 11, Issue 55
August & Septamber 2019
July and August 2019
Pages 71-92

  • Receive Date 22 July 2018
  • Revise Date 01 January 2019
  • Accept Date 06 January 2019

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