الرضا عن التخصص الدراسي لدى طلبة قسم التاريخ في جامعة ديالى

Abstract EN

The current research aims to find out the following: The satisfaction with the academic specialization among students of the Department of History at University of Diyala.

The significance of the differences in satisfaction with the academic specialization among the students of the Department of History at the University of Diyala according to the variable of gender (males and (females).

The researcher adopted the descriptive correlative approach as a methodology for his study, as the current research population is identified by the students of the Department of History in the College of Education for Humanities and the College of Basic Education at the University of Diyala.

The research population is consisted of (859) students.

distributed by (346) males.

(513) females.

In order to achieve the objectives of the research.

two instruments must be available; the first one is to measure satisfaction with the academic specialization.

As the researcher adopted Sidham scale (2020) since it has high psychometric characteristics and the convergence of the Iraqi environment with the environment in which the scale was applied.

The scale includes three domains, the first domain includes (the desire in the academic specialization) of (7) items.

the second domain (Satisfaction with the courses) of (8) items, and the third domain covers (the satisfaction with the professional future) of (5) items.

The scale as a whole consists of (20) items.

The scale consists of positive and negative items.

The positive items were given weighted values of (1-2- 3-4-5) and the answer alternatives are (always-often-sometimes- rarely-never).

The negative items were given weighted values of (1-2- 3-4-5).

After extracting the indicators of face validity and indicators of construction validity of the instrument.

the reliability was verified by the method of testing and retesting, and the reliability coefficient reached (0.83).