تدريس التربية المهنية في مرحلة التعليم الأساسية و دوره في تنمية اتجاهات الطلبة نحو التعليم المهني من وجهة نظر معلمي التربية المهنية في المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية

Abstract EN

The current study aimed at investigating the extent to which pre-vocational education (vocational training at early stages) may contribute to and/or incite students to opt for vocational education at later stages; namely the secondary level.

The researchers designed a questionnaire comprising 49 items divided into 4 main themes; each of these is subdivided into a number of items relevant to vocational training: 1- Goals (17 items), 2- Curriculum (11 items), 3- Aids (9 items) and 4- Teachers (12 items).

The questionnaire was constructed according to a five-point Likert scale of agreement, where reliability reached 0.83.

The number of respondents was 91 of both male and female vocational training teachers.

Descriptive analysis was used to achieve the paper’s goals.

The following methods were used to answer the research questions: mean (m), standard deviation (SD), t-test, correlation and binary and multinomial logistics.

Results revealed that respondents agreed on the positive effect vocational education may have in developing stakeholders’ attitudes showing significant values in this regard.

On the contrary, no significant differences could be attributed to leaner's gender and qualification.

Nonetheless, the study implied that the teacher's years of experience (> 5 years) represent a significant factor in developing students’ attitudes towards vocational education.