Abstract
Voluntarily work is very significant. Due to the significance of such work, the researchers explored the attitudes of outstanding students at the Arab Academic College for Education in Israel and students at other colleges in Israel towards voluntarily work during the COVID-19 crisis. Students filled in two scales. The first scale included 34 items. It collected data on the motives of volunteering. The second scale involved 10 items. It collected data about the benefits of volunteering in the future. The researchers used quantitative research methods. Data were collected from 100 students. The researchers used descriptive and inferential statistical methods. The results indicate that there is a correlation between the feelings of outstanding students at the Arab college and other excellent students in other colleges; they feel that by volunteering they express their values and talents, and that they are granted independency in making decisions and salient reasons for volunteering: creating a better society, meeting the expectations of the programme coordinator, feeling good, volunteering in a field in which they will closely engage in the future and identifying the goals of the programme and the project in which they are participating.
 Keywords: Volunteering, outstanding students, Arab Academic College for Education, COVID-19
Highlights
The excellence of a student should be evaluated using a more holistic approach rather than the conventional academic performance metrics
Results relating to the first question: What are the especially prominent feelings of the outstanding students at the Arab College for Education, Haifa, compared to the especially prominent feelings of the other students participating in this research, regarding the volunteer activities in which they are involved?
Results relating to the second question: What are the prominent reasons outstanding students at the Arab College for Education, Haifa, give for volunteering, compared to the prominent reasons of the other students participating in this research?
Summary
The excellence of a student should be evaluated using a more holistic approach rather than the conventional academic performance metrics. Someone who is involved in volunteering is a person with social awareness, fighting spirit, universal love and willingness to make sacrifices for the welfare of others (Azizan Bahari, 2016). This social encouragement can be divided into four aspects, namely encouragement from peers, family, the local community and school community. All these encouragements indirectly influence and shape a person’s behaviour and drive them towards participation in volunteer work. The constant improvement of the social requirements for the quality of talents demands that the social practice be recognised as fundamental in refining students’ intellectual capacity and their ability to make appropriate adjustments in an organisation and apply their knowledge in the future in terms of academic or real-life situations (Al Shehhi & Azam, 2019; Tham et al, 2017)
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