The Extent to Which Social Studies Teachers Determine the Types of Feedback and the Degree of their Skill to Use Them
Year: 2012
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This study aimed at identifying the extent to which social studies teachers know the types of feedback and the degree of skill they fare to use. To achieve the that, the researchers prepared an achievement test of 16 items measure the level of knowledge and to check its validity and reliability and an educational testing position of 25 items was prepared to see to whish degree they possess oh ability skill of using the feedback and them checking again its validity & reliability. The sample of the study consists of 165 teachers who teach social studies at Ma'an & Tafeileh Directorates of Education. The following results were founds: the extent of knowledge of social studies teachers was 56% which is lower than the acceptable level 80% the degree that social studies teachers acquire the skills to use feedback is 65%, which is lower than the acceptable level 75%. Also, the results shows that there is no significance differences between knowledge level and the acquitting degree due to the qualification degree.
The results showed that there is no statistically significant differences regarding the extent of knowledge due to specialization variable. But it showed there is a statistically significant differences due to the acquiring of feedback skills due to specialization variable for the benefits of social studies teachers.
The researchers recommended to held courses to train social studies teachers to enable the of feedback and hew to use it.
Source: Dirasat: Educational Sciences
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2180154591