Academic Success Skills, Realistic Thinking, and their Relationship with Academic Achievement among Students of the Technical Medical Institute - Baghdad in the Subject of Physiology
الملخص
The current research aims to identify academic success skills and realistic thinking and their relationship with academic achievement among students of the Medical Technical Institute – Baghdad in the subject of registration, as well as to identify the significance of statistical differences in academic success skills and realistic thinking and their relationship with academic achievement among students according to the gender variable (males - females). To achieve the research objectives, the researcher followed the correlational descriptive method. The research community consisted of 89 male and female instructors of the Medical Technical Institute – Baghdad. As for the research tools, they consisted of two instruments: the Dennis Scale (Dennis, 2016), translated and adapted by Razak (2022) to measure academic success skills, which comprises 32 items distributed across five skills: focus, communication, goal setting, time management, and test preparation. Each item has five alternatives applicable to respondents in the form of (always, often, sometimes, rarely, never) with weights (5, 4, 3, 2, 1) since all items of the scale are positively oriented. The second tool was a Realistic Thinking Scale constructed by the researcher, consisting of 28 items, with five alternatives applicable to (always, often, sometimes, rarely, never).
And after verifying the apparent validity, construct validity, and reliability using the Cronbach's alpha and test-retest methods, the scale was applied to students of the Technical Medical Institute – Baghdad, which consisted of (89) participants, including (47) male instructors and (42) female instructors. After processing the data using the t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient.
In continuation of the aspects related to this research, the researcher has come up with the following recommendations:
Relevant authorities should train students in academic success skills and realistic thinking in order to improve students' academic performance.
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