The Prevalent Educational Strategies and Methods of Teaching among the Teaching Staff Members and Ways of Developing them in Saudi Arabia Universities from the Students' Point View

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the prevalent educational strategies and methods of teaching among the teaching staff members and ways of developing them in Saudi Arabia universities from the students' point view in light of some variables. To achieve this goal a questionnaire was designed consisted from (30) items. These items were distributed on four educational strategies: the behavioral strategies, the cognitive strategies, the emotional strategies, and the technology implementing strategy. The questionnaire was distributed on (1067) male and female students. The study results revealed that the behavioral strategies ranked firstly, the cognitive strategy ranked secondly, while the technology implementing strategy ranked finally. Also the results revealed that to develop these strategies grant students the enough opportunity for the inquiry and the investigation for the desirable arrival to the goals, and consolidation of the leading styles among them. Also the results revealed that there aren't any significant differences between the sample responses on the cognitive strategies and the technology implementing strategy, while there are significant differences on the behavioral strategies and the emotional strategies due to gender variable, in favor of (females). There are significant differences on the behavioral strategies, the emotional strategies due to college variable, in favor of (humanity colleges), and on the cognitive strategies and the technology implementing strategy in favor of (scientific colleges). There aren't any significant differences on all the strategies, except for the emotional strategies due to academic level variable, in favor of (the third and fourth years)