Difficulties of Educational Planning of Primary Public Schools in Riyadh: Female Principals Perspectives

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the difficulties of educational planning among the primary public schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from the point of view of female school principals. The study used cross a cross-sectional quantitative research approach to achieve the research objective by using a self-administered questionnaire to collect data. A total valid 294 responses were considered in this study. Through the descriptive statistics using SPSS program, the results found that the different educational planning domains achieved high importance level, and domain of the teachers ranked first with a mean of (4.03) with a high importance level, and the local community relationship field ranked at last with a mean of (3.93) with also a high importance level. The study recommended to overcome educational planning difficulties in the primary public schools in Riyadh providing various material as well moral capabilities to education teachers and leaders, with necessity to communicate with the local community for more participation in the development of educational plans, and strengthen the partnership between teachers, students and school management.