TITLE:
The Reality of Pioneering Education in the Institutions of Higher Education in Derna City
AUTHORS:
Tareq A. Awad Salama, Abdulsalam Abaide
KEYWORDS:
Pioneer Education, Faculty Members, Derna Branch, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Libya
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.6 No.2,
February
13,
2019
ABSTRACT: This study aimed to identify the reality of pioneering education in the in-stitutions of higher education in the city of Derna from the point of view of faculty members by measuring the quality of educational buildings, meas-uring the quality of the content of the curriculum, measuring the quality of the evaluation system and measuring the extent to which the courses con-tained leadership qualities. The nature of the relationship between the level of pioneering education and its relation to some demographic variables of the faculty members were represented in: gender, age, academic qualification, degree, duration of service. To achieve the objectives of the study following the study descriptive analytical method, the researcher developed a questionnaire, and the credibility and the coefficient of stability were verified. The population of the study was represented by the faculty of Omar Al-Mukhtar University, which had 193 members. The sample size was based on the Krejcie and Morgan (1970) table. The size of the sample was 127 members. And after the distribution of the questionnaire was retrieved (103) form valid for statistical analysis. To analyze the study data, the use of computers and the use of statistical program from the software service were contained in (SPSS). The study revealed that the general level of pilot education with its four components was average. The study also showed that the level of the following components: quality of the educational buildings, quality of the contents of the study programs, measurement of the quality of the evaluation system, For leadership traits were moderate, the quality component of the evaluation system was high. The study also found that there are no significant differences in the mean of the leading education due to the demographic variables under study at the level of significance of 5% except for the gender variable in favor of males. Finally, the study presented a set of recommendations that are hoped to promote and strengthen the pioneering education of the university under study.