واقع الاتصال الأكاديمي بين الطلبة و أعضاء الهيئة التدريسية في الجامعات الفلسطينية في محافظات غزة، و سبل تطويرة في جامعات قطاع غزة

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This study aimed at exploring the status and ways of improvement of academic communication between students and faculties in the Palestinian universities.

The researchers used the descriptive analytical method to achieve study obj jectives.

A 57- item questionnaire with one open ended question was distjtributed to a sample of (502) male and female graduate students from the Palestinian universities for the academic year 2005/2006.

An interview with 10 faculty members at the Palestinian universities were conducted to explore their viewpoints about the graduates responses about the status of academic communication and ways to improve it at the Palestinij ian universities.

Results of the study revealed that lecture and discussion were the most commj mon methods of communication at the Palestinian universities compared to the use of Internet and WebCT.

There were no statistically significant differej ences at (α ≤ 0.5) in graduates’ responses regarding the ways of communicatj tion in the Palestinian universities reality in addition to obstacles related to gender and college.

Several suggestions were proposed to improve academic communication at the Palestinian universities amongst them is the diversificj cation of the methods and medias of academic communication that fits with the taught subjects in addition to improving the University environment.