Academic decision-making and its relationship to self-concept and academic achievement for students of the Faculty of Education at Minia University

Mokallad, Hala Kamal El-Din Hassan

doi:10.21608/mathj.2020.112380

Academic decision-making and its relationship to self-concept and academic achievement for students of the Faculty of Education at Minia University

Document Type : Original Article

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Hala Kamal El-Din Hassan Mokallad

10.21608/mathj.2020.112380

Abstract

The current research aimed to detect the relationships between academic decision-making and both self-concept (academic and social) and academic achievement, and to detect the impact of self-concept and academic decision-making on academic achievement, in addition to know whether there are differences in self-concept and academic decision-making due to the gender (Males, females), or specialization (scientific, literary). The research sample consisted of (317) male and female students from the first and second year students at the Faculty of Education, Minia University in academic year (2019/2020). The researcher prepared a measure of the self-concept (academic and social) and the scale of academic decision-making. In this research, we found that there are positive correlations among academic self-concept and both the social self-concept, academic decision-making and academic achievement, and among social self-concept and academic decision-making. It was found that the academic achievement of students could be predicted through the academic self-concept and the academic decision-making. In addition, it was clear from the results that academic decision-making is influenced by the academic and social self-concept. With regard to the differences due to gender and academic specialization, it was not clear in the current research any statistically significant differences between male and female students in scientific and literary specialization.

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