البيئة المدرسية وأثرها على التحصيل الدراسي لتلاميذ مرحلة الأساس بولاية شمال دارفور

Abstract

Abstract The study aims at investigating the most affective factors on the deterioration of the academic standard of the Northern Darfur basic level students. The researcher hypothesized that some school factors have hampered the educational process in the schools and consequently that influenced unfavourably on the academic standard of the students.School factors meant here include the school adminstration , the teacher, methods of teaching , teaching aids in addition to educational environment,the textbooks and educational boards. This study is based on a randomly selected sampleof 177 students from Alfasher and Maleet,who were supposed to sit for the basic level examinations in the year 2004.The teacher’s sample included 210 male and female teachers fi'om Alfasher and Maleet schools as well as 50 headmasters and directors of basic level schools.Two measuennents were used to examine the educational factors; one for the studens and the other for the teachers,headmasters and directors.Validity and reliability tests for the two measurements was conducted before data collection.The data was processed by using SPSS (the Statistical Package for the Social Science). The research concluded that the impact of school factors on educational achievement is more positive than negative.Even the factors which have negative impact on the decline of academic achievement of the students were not solely school factors.Most of them are common factors that involve the family , the shool and the community.Theses factors are represented by the low income, scarcity of textbooks and absence of either or both parents for long periods.However, school factors such as the adminstration , the teacher, the curriculum, the evaluation , and the teaching methods were well concerted. Hence, the little favourable state remained in schools is attributedto them. It was also found that the educational boards of Northern Darfur State schools played important roles in elimination of many hindrances which juperdize the future of those students.At the same time , it was observed that some other educatioal boards played passive roles in the academic achievement of some basic level schools of the State. This conclusion is not compatible with the results of all previous studies(as far as the researcher’s kowledge is concemed).