Characteristics of the University Professor from the Students’ Perspectives An Analytical Study

Abstract

Abstract
"Characteristics of the professor from the student's perspective"
This research aims to:
 Recognize the characteristics of the professor from the student's
perspective.
 Identify the differences in the statistical significance among the
respondents in answering the questionnaire according to gender
variables and to the semester.
In addition to validating the following hypotheses:
 The professor has no academic, personal, social or cultural
characteristics from the students’ perspectives
 There are no differences among the respondents in terms of the
professor’s characteristics according to gender and semester variables The total population of this study is composed of all of the Faculty of Arts
Students at Misurata University for the Fall Term 2017 – 2018, which are in
total (2311) students.A random sample of (212) students was selected.
In order to achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher designed a
questionnaire which contains 30 points that were presented to a group of
professional validation to verify its internal consistency and its independent
variables using Cronbach’s alpha measurement which showed that the
independent variable for the first aspect (Academic characteristics) reached
(0.67), and for the second aspect (Personal characteristics) reached (0.81), for
the third aspect (Social and Cultural characteristics) reached (0.90).In order
to reach the aspired results, the researcher utilized the following statistical
tools: Frequency, arithmetic mean, sign test, Mann–Whitney U test and
Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance.And the results were as
follows:
 There are academic, personal, social and cultural characteristics in
the university professor according to students’ perspectives.
 There are differences in statistical significance at (0.5) in the
means of respondents’ answers according to the variable of gender
in terms of academic, social, and cultural characteristics.However,
there are no differences of statistical significance in the means of
respondents’ answers according to the variable of gender in terms
of social characteristics.
 There are no differences in statistical significance at (0.5) in the
means of respondents’ answers according to the variable of the
semester in terms of the three aspects.