A field study on registration and academic advising problems at the university level

This study aimed at defining registration and academic advising problems facing university students, due to sex, college and the type of university programs (Day time, and evening). The sample of the study consisted of (864) students enrolled at Al-Isra Private University in Amman-Jordan. A (39) items Likart-scale questionnaire has been developed by the researchers and destributed to the sample. To answer the questions of the study and to test its hypotheses, the researchers used means, standard deviations, 't' test, ANOVA and Turkey method. The results showed the following: 1. Most of the registration problems were too high as perceived by students. 2. There were two academic advising problems that were too high according to the students' responses: the time allocated by the academic advisor to students for advising them, and the academic advisor did not have any idea about the student's social, economical and cultural background before advising him. 3. There were no statistical differences between means of male and female students' responses on the registration procedures items and the academic advisor items of the questionnaire. 4. There were no statistical differences means of the students' responses on the academic advisor items of the questionnaire according to the college variable. 5. There were no statistical differences between means of the students' responses on the registration procedure items of the questionnaire, according to the college variable. 6. There were statistical differences between means of the students' responses on the academic advisor items of the questionnaire; between students of the administrative sciences college and their colleagues of the engineering college, in favour of administrative sciences college students, where as there were no statistical differences between any of two other colleges. 7. There were no statistical differences between means of the students' responses on the items related to problems of academic advising, problems of registration procedures and the questionnaire as a whole, according to the type of university programs (Day time program or evening program). Reprinted by permission of Dirasat