شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

 The purpose of this study is to identify the self-learning skills required for the postgraduate’ students in the Palestinian universities in the Gaza Strip and their degree of practicing these skills.  A five-field questionnaire on the self-learning skills was prepared, where validity & reliability were ascertained, targeting 149 female and male students. The descriptive method was adopted.  Results showed that the students highly practice the Self-Learning Skills (78.53), the field that is related to Problem Solving skills and Decision Making has reached the highest rank (82.454) followed by (80.51) as at the second rank for the Computer & Internet relating skills, whereas the skills relevant to the Activities & Experiences came at the third rank (78.61), the Communication skills have got the fourth rank (77.62) and finally the  skills relating to Using the Library and Information Access got the least rank (74.95).  Results also confirm that, statistically, there are significant differences in the practices of self-learning skills among postgraduates’ students in favor of those were in thesis preparation stage.  However, there are no statistically significant differences in the practices of self-learning skills attributed to gender (male/female students). The study recommends enhancing the status of self- learning practices within the postgraduate programs and enriches the courses with activities contributing to the Student’s skills development and promotes self-learning assessment methods. (Published Abstract)