Partial or Comprehensive Reform of the Education System in Kosovo: Overcoming Students Difficulties in Learning through New Teaching Strategies

Abstract

Reform of the education system always has as an aim quality improvement in education. However not always students achieve to learn and gain new knowledge in successful way. Problems which appear among students during the process of teaching and learning different courses are not as a result of their intellectual abilities, but often they are as a result of lacking contemporary and adequate teaching strategies from the teachers. The way how teachers organize the whole teaching process is crucial in successful learning from students and increasing their achievement in learning. In this paper work I will present the results of research which is part of my PhD research paperwork which is done with 661 students of different elementary, middle and high schools in Kosovo. Out coming results of this research give as concrete data for courses which seems to be more difficult for students and in which their achievement is not at satisfactory level. Also this research will present the reasons why students consider those courses difficult and the reason which demotivates them have better learning achievements. Methodology: The part of research we will present is quantitative. The research has been conducted through questionnaire which consisted of variation of different questions; testing articles with optional selection of answers, and open type questions. The measurement scale of questionnaire is nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio. The data analyses where conducted with SPSS program. Analysis of this research is done through cross tabulations.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n4p0509