Attitudes of Al Aqsa University Students towards the Educational Psychology course

Abstract

The study aims at identifying the attitudes of the Education College

students at Al Aqsa University towards the Educational Psychology course

and identifying the differences within these attitudes according to some

variables as: gender, specialization and achievement level in this course.

To achieve the study goals, the researchers prepared and implemented

a valid and a reliable tool on a sample consists of 300 students, 100 males

and 200 females, who studied and have a grade in this course during the first

semester of the academic year 2012/2013.

The findings of the study indicate that the responds of the students'

attitudes were generally high (88.44%). They indicate also that there are

statistically significant differences in the attitudes according to the variable of

specialization (to the part of education literature specialization), in addition,

there were significant differences attributed to their grades in exams, while

there were no significant differences due to the gender variable. In the light

of these results, the researchers propose a number of recommendations.