PMID- 18484446
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080723
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 1466-187X (Electronic)
IS  - 0142-159X (Linking)
VI  - 30
IP  - 3
DP  - 2008
TI  - Prevalence of mistreatment and justice of grading system in five health related 
      faculties in Jordan University of Science and Technology.
PG  - e82-6
LID - 10.1080/01421590801938845 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Many Jordanian university students complain of the behavior of some 
      teaching staff. Also, they complain of the grading systems in universities. AIM: 
      This study concerns the occurrence of different forms of student mistreatment and 
      student mistrust of the grading system in the Jordan University of Science and 
      Technology (JUST) as an example of universities in Jordan. METHOD: A total of 500 
      students in five health related faculties in JUST responded to a questionnaire. 
      RESULTS: Our results were as follow: (i) 61% of the students had experienced at 
      least one form of mistreatment; (ii) perceived mistreatment most often (52%) had 
      taken the form of psychological mistreatment (shouting and humiliation); (iii) 
      other forms of mistreatment such as physical harm (32%), mistreatment related to 
      religion (36%), mistreatment related to external appearance (35%), sexual 
      harassment (33%) and mistreatment related to specialty (29%) were also common; 
      (iv) with the exception of mistreatment related to specialty which was high among 
      the nursing students, perceived mistreatment did not vary significantly between 
      the different faculties; (v) the male students (66%) complain more than female 
      students (56%); (vi) perceived mistreatment was exceptionally high among the 
      Israeli Arabs, 83% compared to 59% for the Jordanians and 65% for other 
      non-Jordanian Arabs; (vii) fellow students (44%), professors (37%) and laboratory 
      technicians (19%) were cited as major sources of mistreatment. Many students 
      (66%) believe that grading system in JUST is unfair. Ninety seven percent of the 
      Israeli Arabs did not trust the grading system compared to 64% of the Jordanians 
      and 66% of the non-Jordanian Arabs. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that, 
      feelings of mistreatment among university students is strong while their trust of 
      the university grading system is low. Perceived mistreatment and an unfair 
      grading system may be a major source of stress among our students and may affect 
      the process of teaching and learning in our country. This should alert the 
      university administration to face these issues and try to solve them.
FAU - Al-Hussain, Saleh M
AU  - Al-Hussain SM
AD  - Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
FAU - Al-Haidari, Mohammad S
AU  - Al-Haidari MS
FAU - Kouri, Nabil A
AU  - Kouri NA
FAU - El-Migdadi, Fayig
AU  - El-Migdadi F
FAU - Al-Safar, Raith S
AU  - Al-Safar RS
FAU - Mohammad, Mukhallad A
AU  - Mohammad MA
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Med Teach
JT  - Medical teacher
JID - 7909593
SB  - IM
MH  - Arabs
MH  - Educational Measurement/*standards
MH  - *Faculty
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Interpersonal Relations
MH  - Jews
MH  - Jordan
MH  - Male
MH  - *Prejudice
MH  - Students/*psychology
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2008/05/20 09:00
MHDA- 2008/07/24 09:00
CRDT- 2008/05/20 09:00
PHST- 2008/05/20 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/07/24 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/05/20 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 791852640 [pii]
AID - 10.1080/01421590801938845 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Med Teach. 2008;30(3):e82-6. doi: 10.1080/01421590801938845.