Item | Domain (1): Concept of school education | Strongly disagree | Disagree | Agree | Strongly agree | Mean scores | SD | |
1.1. | To educate students is to develop their cognitive abilities. | f. | 6 | 11 | 72 | 64 | 3.27 | .76 |
% | 3.8 | 7.0 | 45.9 | 40.8 | 81.7 | |||
1.2. | Schools are responsible of academic achievement and character development is its secondary task. | f. | 9 | 21 | 83 | 40 | 3.01 | .79 |
% | 5.7 | 13.4 | 52.9 | 25.5 | 75.2 | |||
1.3. | Character development is a priority task of parents and caregivers while academic development is a priority task of schools. | f. | 0 | 9 | 50 | 94 | 3.56 | .60 |
% | 0 | 5.7 | 31.8 | 59.9 | 89 | |||
1.4. | Schools target mainly academic achievement since the general goals of the Lebanese curricula only target the cognitive development of students. | f. | 13 | 16 | 57 | 67 | 3.16 | .92 |
% | 8.3 | 10.2 | 36.3 | 42.7 | 79 | |||
1.5. | Teachers are primarily responsible of students’ academic achievement and secondarily responsible of students’ character development. | f. | 0 | 10 | 11 | 132 | 3.8 | .54 |
% | 0 | 6.5 | 7.2 | 86.3 | 95 | |||
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| Av. | 3.5 | 8.5 | 34.8 | 51 | 84% | .72 |