Influencing Factors in the Communication Skills of Basic Sciences Teachers: An Explanatory Factor Analysis

This study concerns determining the effective factors related to the communication skills of basic sciences university teachers. Therefore, a conceptual model of communication skill has been devised by reviewing the related literature, as point of departure. Next, this model was given to an expert panel to evaluate its content validity. Then the model was transformed into a translated Persian questionnaire. After that, it was given to the subjects of the study, around 64, university teachers. Once the reliability of the study was confirmed by the obtained responses, they were fed into SPSS software in order to run Explanatory Factor Analysis. To enclose, it has been explained that there were 2 factors entitled as verbal and visual. The first one comprised 9 variables and the second one is consisted of 6 variables.