Clarification of Educational Courage and Testing it

Objective: this study aimed to clarify the construct through its conceptualization andanalysis based on qualitative study and validity test of heuristic definition in the form of aguide sentence.methods: the method of content analysis and data analysis with the colaizzi approach andthe facet theory approach based on the ssaf of the 3d symmetric rank scaling model wereused. the statistical population includes students and graduates of 6 provinces from the threenorthern, middle, and southern regions of the country, and the sample includes 636 people(n=636), which was conducted through a multi-stage cluster random sampling method.results: the results led to the discovery of the true meaning of educational courage,including the five facets: purpose, action domain (covert action and overt action), repetition,and authenticity of the response. according to this heuristic definition, authentic educationalcourage can be defined as learner-optimal behavior- due to personality capacity- inconfronting traumatic educational challenges (perceived) to achieve a transcendent purpose(mastery learning).conclusions: the results of the research showed that authentic educational courage could beconsidered the best form of moral behavior in education and one of the important indicatorsof evaluating the quality of learners' performance based on their personality capacity whenfacing traumatic challenges.