Obstacles to Using Search Engines among Graduate Students at the Faculty of Arts, Misurata University

Abstract

The research aims to identify the obstacles to using search engines among graduate students at the Faculty of Arts, Misurata University, by answering the following two questions: 1- What are the obstacles to using search engines among graduate students at the Faculty of Arts, Misurata University from the students’ point of view? 2- Are there statistically significant differences in the degree to which the sample members estimate the obstacles to using search engines among postgraduate students at the Faculty of Arts, Misurata University, due to the variables of gender, academic stage, and occupational degree? The research community consisted of all (209) postgraduate students, and in order to achieve the objectives of the research, the two researchers designed a questionnaire whose number of paragraphs was (28) divided into three areas and presented to a group of arbitrators to ensure its validity and to calculate the reliability coefficient using the split-half., where the overall stability coefficient of the tool (0.85). In order to reach the results, the most important of them are: 1- The number of achieved paragraphs was (12) paragraphs, and their percentage weight ranged between (81.4-60). 2- The number of unfulfilled items was (16) items, and their percentage weight ranged between (66-40.4). 3- There are no differences in the degree to which the sample members estimate the obstacles to using search engines among postgraduate students due to the variables of gender and occupation.