Global Journal of Human Social Science, G: Linguistics and Education, Volume 22 Issue 9

Table 1: Attributes of the subjects of the Sample. Variable Variable Level Frequency Percentage Sex Male 78 55.7 % Female 62 44.3 % Academic Rank Instructor 21 15.0 % Lecturer 36 25.7 % Assistant Professor 56 40.0 % Associate Professor 22 15.7 % Professor 5 3.6 % Teaching Experience 1-5 years 31 32.1 % 6-10 years 42 30.0 % 11-16 years 47 33.6 % More than 16 years 20 14.3 % College Engineering and Technology 20 14.3 % Commerce 29 20.7 % Arts and Educational Sciences. 26 18.6 % Science and Agriculture Technology 6 4.3 % Applied Sciences. 30 21.4 % Technical College. 29 20.7 % Table 2: Percentage weight for each response Mean Response Scale (4.2 )and more Very high. (3.40-4.19) High. (2.60 – 3.39) Medium. (2.59 – 1.8) Little. Less than (1.8) Very Little. © 2022 Global Journals Volume XXII Issue IX Version I 12 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2022 G The Status and the Specifications of the Questions of an Achievement Exam from the Points of View of the Teaching Staff- Members of Palestine Technical University- Kadoorie (PTUK)\Tulkarm-Campus • Various Cognitive- level questions can immune students against the tendency of superficial thinking. • High level questions are practical tools for prompting thinking and improving other cognitive skills like problem solving and decision making. V. M ethodology and D iscussion To achieve the purpose of this study, the researchers followed a descriptive quantitative approach through which a 24-item questionnaire which was rewritten and recompiled in reference to the related literature and in accordance with the amendments asked for by some experts in the field; the reliability of the questionnaire was measured by calculating the internal consistency and the (Cronbach’s alpha) factor which reached the value of (.936); this value confirmed that the questionnaire is valid as the instrument of this study; the questionnaire, then, was distributed to a sample of (140) subjects out the population of (355) teaching staff-members of (PTUK); table(1) reveals the attributes of the subjects of the sample: As the aim of this study was to investigate “the status and the specifications of questions of an achievement exam from the points of view of the teaching staff-members of Palestine Technical University (PTUK)," the following scale for the means of the subjects' responses of the questionnaire items was set up: To answer the main question of this study, the means and the standard deviation of the responses of the teaching staff-members of Palestine Technical University-Kadoorie (PTUK), for the questionnaire items, in regard to main question of this "the status and the specifications of questions of an achievement exam from the points of view of the teaching staff-members of Palestine Technical University (PTUK)."; table (3) shows the results: