Using the requirements of teaching and learning standards to achieve the standards of the education evaluation commission in KSA : an application on the academic programs in the faculty of applied medical sciences in Najran university

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This study aimed to realize the extent of the fulfillment of the standard of teaching and learning according to the standards of the Education Evaluation Commission in KSA for the academic programs in the Faculty of applied medicine science - Najran University.

These programs have already got the international accreditation from AHPGS in 2015 to 2020.

Thus, the study has targeted the beneficiaries of this standard.

These beneficiaries are students and the teaching staffs of the three programs (Clinical laboratory, physiotherapy and Radiation science programs) to disclose the differences of the fulfillment of this standard in the light of the variables of programs and categories (students and teaching staffs) in addition to the gender regarding the program of radiation science (track of male and female).

The researchers have used the descriptive approach, the sample of the research are 37, 28 and 64 students, 16, 17 and 9 teaching staffs from the programs of medical laboratory, physiotherapy and radiation sciences, respectively for the academic year 2018/2019 during the second semester.

The researchers have used the questionnaire as a tool to collect data.

Two questionnaires were designed.

The first one is directed to the students in each program.

This one contained 40 items, which distributed to 3 subjects.

However, the second has directed to the teaching staffs, contained 49 items, which also distributed to 3 subjects.

The most important results of this study is that the procedures regarding each sub-standard (study subjects) proved to be highly sufficient, especially from the teaching staffs' point of view.

The study has come out with some recommendations which will lead to fulfill the standard of teaching and learning well, among them the graduates' characteristics should be announced, the targeted outcomes of learning from the students' academic programs and the other service beneficiaries by various advertising means whether in paper or electronic, linking between the needs of labour market and the outcomes of the program through holding appropriate training agreements with the bodies in which students employed, promote the evaluation approaches used in the program to cope with the measurement of learning outcomes, the administration of the program should lay down appropriate mechanism to review the program and measure students' acquirement of the outcomes of learning periodically and based upon the feedback from the evaluation process, care of integration of the students in the committees of organizing workshop and symposia and invite all students of the program, urging them to participate actively in these workshops.

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