أسباب ضعف التحصيل في الرياضيات لدى طلبة السنة التحضيرية في الجامعة السعودية الإلكترونية من وجهة نظر الطلبة و مدرسيهم

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The goal of this study was to identify the major factors leading to poor performance among students in the Preparatory year at Saudi Electronic University.

To achieve the objective of the study, the researcher designed an instrument detailing all possible factors for low performance in Mathematics among college students.

The instrument was distributed among 1008 students in the Preparatory year and among 26 teachers who taught math in that semester.The study indicated among the major factors that lead to poor performance in mathematics from student perspective relates to the math curriculum, followed by problems associated with the electronic learning environment and finally factors associated with math teachers.As for the low performance in mathematics from the teacher’s perspective, they identified the following factors mainly factors relating to students, the electronic learning environment, curriculum related factors and finally factors relating to teachers.The study enumerated a number of suggestions that would address pertinent issues highlighted in the study.