Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات
Abstract
The study aimed at identifying the tendencies of faculty teaching staff towards the role of higher education in encouraging scientific research for developing society. The researcher followed the analytical descriptive research methodology and a questionnaire that had two sections. The first section had 22 items about the role of higher education in encouraging scientific research for developing society. The second section had 23 items about the mechanism for encouraging scientific research for developing society. After ensuring the validity and reliability of the questionnaire, it was applied on 100 faculty teaching staff in the humanities field (Faculties of Arts, Law, Economics, and Education) and in the applied sciences field (Faculties of Civil Engineering, Informatics Engineering, Technical Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and 1 Agricultural Engineering( The research results revealed that the tendencies of faculty teaching staff towards the role of Higher Education in encouraging scientific research for developing society were strong, whereas they were mild within the mechanism which contributed to scientific research. There were no statistically significant differences in the tendencies of the faculty teaching staff according to the specialization variable, but there were significant differences in the tendencies of the faculty teaching staff according to the variable of years of experience
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Houry, Aisha
(2016)
"Tendencies of faculty teaching staff towards the role of higher education in encouraging scientific research for developing society (field study),"
Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات: Vol. 17:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
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https://digitalcommons.aaru.edu.jo/jpu/vol17/iss1/3