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blocks. Efforts have been made to extract all these findings in the form of factors without prejudgment and valuation. Since these factors do not have the same semantic and scale levels, the checklist is developed in two main steps:

• second step: the second step is the scale classification, which is done by defining the hierarchical relationships among the factors of each category in each of the three conceptual groups (**Figure 6**). Finally, the factors of these groups are placed in three classes, i.e., macro-concepts, concepts, and criteria (**Figure 7**). In addition, to make the assessment checklist more practical, definitions of indicators are included in the agenda. These indicators have been

defined according to different views in the literature (**Table 2**).

by color (**Figure 5**); and

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*The first step: identifying similar factors and their interconnections.*

• first step: the first step is conceptual classification, which is done by connecting factors with similar meanings (**Figure 4**). Here, similar factors are identified and semantically classified into three groups, distinguished from one another

*The first step: classifying similar factors into three groups.*

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*The second step: hierarchical relationships among the factors of each category in each of the three conceptual groups.*
