The Degree of Effectiveness of the Learning Resources Rooms in Teaching Students with Learning Difficulties in Ajloun Education Directorate Schools in Jordan as Perceived by their Teachers

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the degree of effectiveness of the learning resources rooms in teaching students with learning difficulties in Ajloun Education Directorate schools in Jordan as perceived by their teachers .It also aimed to identify if there are  significant statistical differences among the responses of the study sample attributed to the variables :gender ,major and experience. The population of the study consisted of all learning resources rooms' teachers and all Arabic and mathematics teachers of all schools which include learning resources rooms. Their total number amounted to 554 teachers: 299 females and 255 males. The study sample consisted  of  94 teachers chosen randomly from the population .The instrument of the study was a questionnaire developed by the researcher ;its validity was  confirmed by 85% of the agreement of the referees and its reliability was achieved by using (Alpha-cronbach) coefficient whose value was (0.97) the results of study indicated that the degree of effectiveness of four out of five domains of the instrument is high ranked as follows : (1) reinforcement for students; (2) evaluation and diagnosis of the students; (3) strategies and methods of teaching; (4) instructional facilities and equipment. The findings indicated that the degree of effectiveness parents is medium. The finding also indicated that there are no statistically significant differences among the study sample responses attributed to gender, major and experience variables.

Keywords: learning resources rooms, effectiveness of learning resources rooms, learning difficulties, schools in Jordan, students with learning difficulties.

This research was conducted while on sabbatical year from Al Al-Bayt University , Mafraq , Jordan 2014/ 2015