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Introduction: Evaluation in any organization is an essential part of maintaining and sustaining the organization. The purpose of this study was to determine the evaluation criteria of faculty members' performance.
Methods: The present study was conducted using qualitative content analysis method, in which 20 faculty members, specialized in educational management and evaluation and university departments managers were selected for semi-structured interviews. Sampling was purposive and snowball method. The robustness of the data was confirmed by participants and external controls. Data were analyzed using content analysis approach.
Resluts: Interview data consisted of 6 main themes and 21 sub-themes. The main themes include: research activity (3 sub-themes), educational activities (3 sub-themes), executive services (2 sub-themes), development (4 sub-themes), professional ethics (3 sub-themes) and ethics individual was (6 sub-themes).
Conclusiosn: The findings showed an in-depth understanding of faculty performance criteria in 6 main themes and 21 sub-themes. It is suggested that the findings of the present study be used to evaluate the performance of university lecturers.
 

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Introduction: Evaluation of university teachers is a necessity in order to improve the knowledge of the community. In this regard, the performance evaluation instruments of university faculty members are different. Therefore, the aim of present study was to develop and Psychometrics "Scale of Performance Evaluation Criteria for University Faculty Members".
Methods: The present study is of methodological type and includes two qualitative and quantitative sections. In the qualitative part, 20 semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 university faculty members and experts in measurement and evaluation. From the qualitative findings, the initial scale was developed with 38 items. Then, in the quantitative part, the scale for measuring face validity, content validity ratio and content validity index was distributed among 20 faculty members and experts in measuring and evaluating. To measure the construct validity, the exploratory factor analysis method was used. Reliability was measured by 30 faculty members of Zanjan Branch of Azad University using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Data were analyzed in SPSS . 23.
Results: According to the qualitative findings, the "Scale of criteria for evaluating the performance of university teachers" was developed with 38 items. Items with a content validity ratio greater than 0.42 and a content validity index greater than 0.79 were retained (7 items were deleted). Structural validity findings showed that the designed scale has 6 dimensions (individual ethics, professional ethics, educational activities, maturity, executive activity, research activity). The reliability was obtained by internal consistency method (Cronbach's alpha coefficient) for the scale 0.93.
Conclusion:  The "Scale of Performance Evaluation Criteria for University Faculty Members" with 31 and 5 point Likert scale, from strongly agree (score 5) to completely disagree (score zero) in 6 dimensions, has high validity and reliability. It is suggested that the above instrument be used in the evaluation of university faculty members.