استخدام التحليل العاملي الاستكشافي و التحليل العنقودي في تصنيف العوامل المؤثرة على تدني مستوى طلبة التعليم المتوسط من وجهة نظر المعلمين : دراسة تطبيقية داخل مدارس اجدابيا الثانوية

Abstract EN

This research aims at the revealing the applicability of exploratory factor analysis in the principal component analysis to extract the factors affecting the low educational achievement of middle education students (secondary schools students), it also aims to apply hierarchical cluster analysis to identify the factors affecting the low educational achievement of middle (secondary) education students, utilizing hierarchical cluster analysis ,the research has relied on the teachers perspective, as they represent the study community by means of questionnaire prepared for this purpose, which was applied to 176 (N=176) teachers from middle (Secondary) schools in Ajdabiya city, Libya.

the research has reached several findings, including : by using factor analysis, it was found that the factors affecting the low educational achievement can be extracted in five main factors : (environmental factors, subjectivity factors, psychological factors, pedagogical factors, educational factors).

When the cluster analysis was used, the Proximity matrix was calculated and the closest distance between the two variables was between the pedagogical and the educational factors.