The Effect of the National ‎Education Course in ‎Representing Concepts of ‎Good Citizenship Among ‎Students of Jerash University

Authors

Samir Al-Rasheed, Jerash University, JordanFollow

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of studying the course of National education and its affect on the assimilation of Jerash‎Private University's students of good citizenship concepts? Does the degree of the assimilation ‎of good citizenship concepts of Jerash Private University's students differ from those who ‎studied civics course with the difference of academic level? Population of the study consisted of ‎students of Jerash Private University other than first year students for the academic year ‎‎2005/2006 Sample of the study consisted of (159) students who studied civics course prior to ‎the first semester of the academic year 2005/2006 and (159) students who never studied the ‎above course. Random, cluster and stratified method was used for choosing the sample. ‎Subjects of the study were distributed among different Faculties of the University, on the ‎academic level and on gender (male and female) in consistent with distribution of students in ‎the study population and in accordance with its variables. A scale was developed for measuring ‎good citizenship concepts, which consisted of (20) items distributed equally on two concepts, ‎the first is the public participation concept and the second is the affiliation concept. Each item ‎was followed by alternates for the response representing negative, neutral and positive ‎attitudes of the content of each item of the scale. Numbers 1, 2, 3 respectively were allocated ‎for the attitudes. Validity of the scale was verified by presenting it to a number of professors‎from the University of Jordan, while its reliability was verified by using internal consistency ‎through Crunbach Alfa equation. Coefficient value was (0.76) and the researcher used T-test, ‎One -Way variance analysis (ANOVA) test, and Tukey posterior comparison test for differences ‎between arithmetic means. Results of the study revealed that there are no statistical ‎significance differences attributed to civics course between the two samples. Results also ‎indicated that there are statistical significance differences in the degree of assimilation of good ‎citizenship concepts in favor of second year students and third year level against the fourth year ‎level students who studied civics course. The study recommended that school curricula be ‎reviewed in public education stages and academic course content and to review methods of ‎teaching and evaluation‏

Recommended Citation

Al-Rasheed, Samir (2008) "The Effect of the National ‎Education Course in ‎Representing Concepts of ‎Good Citizenship Among ‎Students of Jerash University," Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات: Vol. 9: Iss. 2, Article 4.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.aaru.edu.jo/jpu/vol9/iss2/4