The Degree of Participation of Government School Principals in Overcoming the Problems Faced by Second Secondary Students in Karak District Schools from the Students’ Point of View

Abstract

The current study aimed to reveal the degree of the public-school principals’ contribution to overcoming the problems faced by the Second secondary students in the Karak district schools from the students’ own point of view. (Problems related to the high school exam, educational problems, personal problems, social problems), and their validity and reliability were verified, applied to a random sample of (1047) male and female high school students from the literary and scientific branches in the Karak district, which constituted (25%) of the study population. The study found that the degree of public-school principals’ contribution to overcoming the problems faced by Second secondary students was medium with an arithmetic mean (3.59) and a standard deviation (0.39). It was also found that there were statistically significant differences in the total degree of the contribution of government school principals to overcoming the problems faced by Second secondary students and all their fields due to the gender variable and in favor of females, and there were no differences between the scientific and literary branches, and the study came out with the appropriate recommendations.

Keywords: Problems, Second Secondary Students, School Principals.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-22-04

Publication date:August 31^st 2022