English abstract
The importance of this study arises from the fact that it deals with one of 3 the main issues of the first cycle of basic education in Sultanate of Oman . The study investigates the efficiency and effectiveness of the school resource centres in achieving the objectives of social studies cuarriculum . The study will ancwer the following question :
Q1. What is the present stutuus of the resource centres in the first cycle of basic education school in the sense of the availability of equipments and usage of these educational facilities ?
Q2. To what extent do these centres achieve the objectives of the first cycle of basic education?
Q3. Are there significant statistical difference at 0.05 level between teachers and senier teachers souial studies hirst field and teachers of learning resources concerning the achievement of the objectives of. social studies in first cycle of basic education ?
Q4. What are the propsed recommendations concerning reourse centres as visualized?
A quenstionnaire investigating the availablity and utilization of resource centres that serve social studies curriculum , and another questionnaire investigating the objectives of social studies ariculam in first cycle of basic education were used.
Data was statistically analyzed using the means and T-test to investigate the differences between means. Pearson correlation at (CX = 0.1) in addition to one-way ANNOVA were also applied to predict some results. ·
The most important findings can be summerized as follows:
- Most of the equipments , instruments and facilities are available and some of them are well used , but some are rarely used irrespective of their availalility.
- There is correlation at (a = 0.1 ) between availability of educational facilities and utilization, and teachers are using them to a high degree. Learning resource centers play a great role in facilitating achievement of the objectives of social studies curriculum , yet this facilitation differs according to type of the objective ( knowledge, attitude, psychomotor ). There are no statistical differences at (x=0.5) level between the teachers ( sample of the study ) concerning the objectives of the first cycle of basic education.
Some suggestions and recommendations were proposed by the researcher.
