Zohreh Farahmandpour

Research Interests

AI in Analysis of Education Data; AI in STEM education, AI in healthcare, AI in Breast cancer, Neural network and deep learning; Human-centered natural language processing (NLP), and Large language model (LLM) applications in Education and health informatics.Transformational leadership, Entrepreneurial Leadership, instructional leadership, ethical leadership, culturally responsive leadership; Recruitment, retention, and wellbeing of teachers and students; Policy and budgeting analysis; STEM and special education; Quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods research analysis and software; Meta-analysis.

Publications

Taghavi Monfared A., Hojati M., Farahmandpour Z., Keykha A. (2026). Mapping Personalized Learning in Medical Education: A Meta-Synthesis of Artificial Intelligence Applications. Journal of Advances in Medical Education and Professionalism. 14(3), 220-237. https://doi.org/10.30476/jamp.2026.108229.2243

Farahmandpour, Z. & Robert Voelkel (2025, Jan). Unraveling the causes of teacher turnover: A meta-analysis of global literature. Leadership and Policy in Schools.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2025.2458610

Farahmandpour, Z. & Robert Voelkel (2025). Teacher turnover factors and school-level influences: A meta-analysis of the literature. Education Sciences. 15(2), 219. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15020219.

Keykha, A., Fazlali, B., Behravesh, S. & Farahmandpour, Z., (2025). Applied artificial intelligence in medical education: A meta-synthesis of ChatGPT’s promises and perils. Journal of Advances in Medical Education and Professionalism. 3(3), 155-172.
https://jamp.sums.ac.ir/article_50982.html

Farahmandpour, Z. (2025). Transformational leadership and the correlates of teacher retention [Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Texas]. https://digital.library.unt.edu/search/?q=Transformational+leadership+and+the+correlates+of+teacher+retention&t=fulltext&sort=&fq=&fq=

Farahmandpour, Z. (2026). Perceived transformational leadership and the correlates of teacher retention: A comparative analysis of stayers and leavers. Educational Researcher. (In Press)