2528-9705 Örgütsel Davranış Araştırmaları Dergisi Journal Of Organizational Behavior Research Cilt / Vol.: 3, Sayı / Is.: S2, Yıl/Year: 2018, Kod/ID: 81S2271 Geliş tarihi/Recieved: 25.03.2018 – Kabul tarihi/Accepted: 22.05.2018 – Yayın tarihi/Published: 21.12.2018 ANALYZING THE EXISTING AND DESIRED STATE OF BLENDED LEARNING IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS Mir Arsalan BASATI, Faranak MOSAVI*, Mohammad Javad KARAM AFROOZ, Elham KAVEANI, Susan LAEI Department of Education Sciences, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran. *CorrespondingAuthor Email:frnkmosavi@yahoo.com ABSTRACT The general purpose of the present research is to analyze the current situation of applying the blended learning in the primary schools in contrast to the desired and expected situation. This research is a descriptive-survey one and is applied in terms of its purpose. The research community consists of all managers and head teachers, experts and teachers in the primary schools in Islam Abad Gharb, Kermanshah, in the 2017-2018 academic year and their statistics are 650 people during research. Based on the Morgan Table, 242 people were selected and analyzed by means of stratified random sampling. A researcher-made questionnaire was prepared and distributed in the schools to analyze the current state and the desired situation for blended learning. The face validity and content validity were confirmed by the expert professors and its reliability was 0.99 by means of Cronbach alpha in the current can desired situations. Central parameters and scattering parameters were used to carry out descriptive analysis. Kolmogorov–Smirnov Test, one sample T-test. Friedman Test and SPSS® were used to carry out inferential analysis. The findings showed that the mean of all components is lower than the medium size in the current situation and is higher than the medium size in the desired and expected situation. Moreover, a significant statistical difference was shown between the current and desired situations and there was a difference between using the components of blended learning in the current situation and applying them in the desired and expected situation of the schools. Keywords: Traditional Learning, Electronic Learning, Blended Learning, Current Situation, Desired Situation, Primary Schools. INTRODUCTION The significance of education as an important global concern has made The World Bank to allocate its World Development Report 2018 to the subject of education and its crisis (Pakravan, 2017, p.1). The training and learning is one of the major duty of schools. Nowadays, traditional face-to-face training is one of the most common methods dominated in the schools which has been recognized as the common learning method in most of the world schools during education and training history (Sanghari, 2004, p.29). The rote learning, speech and question and answer can be mentioned for such trainings. Being cheap, motivating the enthusiasm of creative thinking, creating the enthusiasm of study and research activity, power of expression for students, effect on the learning of emotional level, shyness elimination, communication with society, self-evaluation, self-confidence, satisfying curiosity sense and fortifying exploratory and inventive desire can be the advantages of this learning method (Shabani, 2006, pp.243-289).