تقويم برنامج التربية العملية في جامعة القدس المفتوحة

Abstract EN

This research aims at evaluating the practical education programme at Al-Quds Open University from student – teachers’ perspective.

It also tries to investigate students’ views towards several domains including the objectives of the programme, its procedural steps, and roles of both school administration and collaborating teacher .

The study sample consists of ( 389) students who were randomly chosen from the strata of the population ( counted 1557 students ) i.e.

the sample counted 25% of the population .

To get the views of student – teachers , a 63 – item questionnaire was used .

365 copies of the questionnaire returned , and after statistical analysis , the researcher arrives at the following basic conclusions : 1- Student – teachers’ ratings on the programme evaluation questionnaire were high although there were some points of weakness distributed on the four domains of the questionnaire .

2- There were no statistically significant differences ( α = 0.05) between the means of student – teacher’s ratings that could be attributed to gender and social status variables .

3- There were statistically significant differences ( α = 0.05) between the means of the student – teachers ratings on the items of the practical education evaluation questionnaire that could be attributed to professional status, specialization and school selection and the domains of the questionnaire .

In the light of the conclusions, the researcher set several recommendations .

First , re-organizing the practical education programme so as to keep up with the requirements of the modern age and the peculiarities of the Palestinian society .

Secondly , there is an extreme necessity of making available a special manual that could be used by supervisors, students, school-head masters and collaborating teachers.

Finally, integration between the roles of all these concerned in the programme is an urgent necessity , but it should be done according to fixed and exact criteria .