title: Comparison between current and ideal condition of educational justice from the students' viewpoints at Jahrom Nursing and Paramedical School.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Educational justice is a process by which all those involved in education are pondering and seeking to establish it in their regulatory environments. This study aimed to investigate effective factors in an ideal educational justice and the current condition of educational justice from the students' viewpoint and ultimately increase the awareness and understanding of authorities and educational planners of the existing shortcomings.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a descriptive-analytical study. Samples include all nursing, operating room, and anesthesia students of nursing and paramedical college who had passed at least 5 semesters. Data collection was carried out through a scholar questionnaire. Validity was assessed through content validity and reliability of the questionnaire was evaluated using a pilot study.  In order to determine the status of the scores, 5 points (very high), 4 (often), 3 (moderate), 2 (low) and 1 (very low) were assigned, respectively. To determine the justice level, a 35 score interval was considered as very low, low, medium, high and very high. SPSS software, descriptive statistics, independent t-test and ANOVA were used to analyze the data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was a significant difference between the ideal and the current conditions in all items (p≤0.001) and also in the total mean score of ideal condition  and mean score of current condition (p=0.010).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In an educational system, educational methods and aims should be regulated in a way that principles and components of justice are attainable and distribution and allocation of educational facilities of justice are considered thoroughly.
authors.affiliation: Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad Ali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Montaseri
authors.affiliation: Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohsen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hojat
authors.affiliation: Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran.
authors.forename: Mahdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Karimyar Jahromi
keywords: Current; Education; Ideal; Justice