The Practical Obstacles that Face QOU Learners during their Training Sessions from their Viewpoint

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the practical obstacles facing QOU learners

during their training sessions in various cooperating partner schools، and the

effect of some demographic variables on the perceptions of these obstacles.

To realize this، an instrument was developed that consisted of 40 indicators

covering four areas of the research، and was applied to a random cluster

sampling of 246 learners from five educational regions.

The results، based on learners’ responses، revealed that prioritized

counseling needs are dependent on the following: role of the academic

supervisor، schools in which training takes place، the teaching plan، and

finally the students of the cooperating school subject to the training.

Results also indicated significant statistical differences between male

and female learners in terms of the problems they face in the field of training،

where female learners indicated having more difficulties than male learners

in all areas of the study; and problems encountered by learners were most

severe in mathematics and Arabic language than in other fields. The result did

not indicate any interaction effect between gender and specialization on the

problems that the learners face during the partical application in the field