Obstacles to the Primary School Teachers' Willingness towards Research and Suggestions for Improvement

The present research has been conducted to identify the obstacles to the primary school teachers' willingness towards doing research. It aims also to provide some solutions for the problem. The research is practical-oriented, used descriptive-analytical method for data collection, and carried out as a survey. The results showed that the obstacles to teachers' willingness towards research may be classified into three categories: individual, organizational, and extra-organizational. The effect of each of the categories is different. The individual, organizational, and extra-organizational have the lowest to highest negative effect, respectively. In the first category (individual) the following reasons for lack of willingness: low research skill, low social and inter- personal communication skills, low personal motivation, lack of time, high expenses of research, and low income. In the organizational category these factors are significant: low organizational motivation, discouraging attitudes to research, preferring favoritism to rules, lack of official support for research, lack of appropriate evaluation of and supervision on the conducted research. In the third category lack of such factors as belief in research findings, of access to research data, of infrastructure for doing research, of extra- organizational coordination, and of proper policy-making deter conducting research.