Scientific Research and Publishing Skills Among Employees of the Jordanian Ministry of Education From Their Point of View.

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the degree of scientific research and publishing skills among the employees of the Jordanian Ministry of Education from their point of view. The study sample consisted (3026) employee. A tool was built consisting of (36) items distributed over (4) diemntions. The results showed that scientific research skills were at an average level (72.6%), and scientific publishing skills were also at an average level (59.3%). It was found that there were statistically significant differences in scientific research skills for the gender in favor of males, the academic qualification variable in favor of postgraduate studies, and the experience variable among less than (5) years and 5-10 years in favor of less than (5) years, and between (5-10) years and more than (10) years in favor of more than (10) years, and the rank variable was between the rank of assistant teacher/administrative and the rank of senior teacher/administrative in favor of the rank of assistant teacher/administrative, and between the various ranks and the rank of expert teacher/administrative in favor of expert teacher/administrative. It was found that there were statistically significant differences in scientific publishing skills for the gender variable in favor of females, and the variable Academic qualification for postgraduate studies.