The Reality of Educational Media throughout the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Secondary Schools in the United Arab Emirates from the Perspectives of Students

The purpose of this study was to identify the reality of educational media throughout the Emirate of Abu Dhabi secondary schools in the United Arab Emirates from the perspectives of students. To attain the study purpose, the researchers prepared a questionnaire consisted of 63 statements in its final format as an instrument for data collection. Upon the completion of stating the questionnaire items, the researchers tested its reliability as well as validity. The study instrument had been divided into five major domains. Such domains were school media, instructional technology, school broadcasting, forums/lectures, and local community/family-school communication. Then, (384) questionnaires, representing a (15.61%) of the study population were received. Findings revealed that both school media and instructional technology domains congruently ranked first with a mean of (2.43), and third school broadcasting with a mean of (2.41). Nevertheless, forums/ lectures and local community/family-school communication ranked with a lowest mean of (2.40) correspondingly. The overall mean of the study sample responses was (2.42) however. Additionally, the study findings indicated that there were significant statistical differences due to the independent variable of grade level amongst all domains. Besides, there were significant statistical differences due to the independent variables of gender between all domains except female students’ responses to the local community/family-school communication. Based on the findings, the researchers provided several recommendations in order to activate the role of educational media all through secondary schools in Abu Dhabi. The most important of which, from the researchers’ estimation, would be conducting a similar futuristic field study to shed light on triggering the educational media role within the Emirati schools taking into account all stages Key Words: Educational Media, Secondary Schools, Emirates of Abu Dhabi, and the United Arab Emirates