A Prelude to Standard and Standardization in Educational Systems

This article is an attempt to review the standardization of human resources in education. Today, a qualitative movement toward efficient trainings in educational systems is necessary, since one of the important factors in the development and progress of any society is necessarily resources, manpower and their education. Considering education as a basic system in growing human resources, the present article tries to address this matter, due to the fact that we are in a situation in which policy-makers and training leaders are worried about standard trainings. They will be assured when the teachers and human resources are standard Therefore, endeavors have been made in this article to discuss the concept of standard and its historical background in the world and Iran by using the most valid resources and sites. Training standards and the seven-principles of standard are studied as well. The discussion will continue by clarifying training standards movement and geographical conditions. Afterwards, the cultural roots wili be mentioned Meanwhile, five issues regarding the necessity of standard-based training will be discussed Furthermore, the professional competencies as well as four major inputs in standardization will be studied Finally, as a base for future discussions, eight conceptual models will be indicate