validation of the questionnaire on the characteristics of the Academic Boundary Spanner faculty members

Norollahee, Saeid; Ghanbari, Siroos

doi:10.22034/jam.2025.143900.1111

validation of the questionnaire on the characteristics of the Academic Boundary Spanner faculty members

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saeid norollahee ¹
Siroos Ghanbari ²

¹ PhD student in Educational Management, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran

² Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

10.22034/jam.2025.143900.1111

Abstract

The current research was conducted with the aim of validating a tool for measuring the characteristics of academic Boundary Spanner at the level of faculty members. The research method was mixed and sequential exploratory (qualitative-quantitative). Therefore, two section were designed and implemented. 1- To identify the characteristics of Academic Boundary Spanner and its dimensions and to build a tool with a qualitative approach and using the phenomenological method. The research community was the faculty members of public universities in Tehran, 15 of whom were selected by purposive sampling. The research tool in this section was a semi-structured interview. 2- The research was descriptive-analytical. The statistical population included 2189 faculty members of technical faculties of Tehran state universities, which was determined using Cochran's formula to determine the sample size of 327 people, and sampling was done using a stratified-proportional random method. Data analysis was done with exploratory factor analysis, second-order factor analysis and Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The findings showed; Boundary Spanner faculty members have three categories of personal, professional and organizational characteristics. Also, the constructed 19-item scale is highly desirable in terms of content validity, construct validity and reliability. The tool for measuring the characteristics of academic boundary spanners (at the level of faculty members) has the ability to measure the characteristics of boundary spanners in research studies.

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