Hashemite University Research Articles

Reliability and validity of Arabic version of revised general nutrition knowledge questionnaire on university students.

The current study evaluated the reliability and validity of the Arabic version of the revised general nutrition knowledge questionnaire (GNKQ-R) for adults. The eighty-eight-item English GNKQ-R was adapted into an eighty-six-item Arabic version. Four validation studies were conducted for internal (n 805) and external (n 106) reliability, construct validity between participants with (n 84) and without (n 88) nutrition background, convergent validity for associations between nutrition knowledge and demographic characteristics (n 750) and responsiveness to online nutrition information (n 55). United Arab Emirates University in United Arab Emirates and Hashemite University in Jordan. Undergraduate students aged 18 years and above, enrolled in any programme at the two universities, were recruited. Overall, internal reliability (Cronbach's α = 0·91) and external reliability (P = 0·350; intra-class correlation coefficient = 0·84) were high. Significantly higher GNKQ-R scores of students with (66·0 (10·6)) v. without (38·0 (10·7), P < 0·001; d = 2·6) nutrition background indicated high construct validity. Significantly higher GNKQ-R scores among females v. males, older and senior students v. younger and junior students and students in health discipline v. non-health discipline reflected good convergent validity. Significant differences in GNKQ-R scores with nutrition information (time 1 = 37·8 (10·5) and time 2 = 47·7 (9·1), P < 0·001; d = 1·0) indicated high responsiveness to nutrition intervention. The Arabic GNKQ-R showed high reliability and validity in the young adult Arab population. Besides the reliability of the overall questionnaire, each section demonstrated adequate reliability. Further studies are warranted to establish the generalisability and applicability of the Arabic GNKQ-R in older adults and in different middle-eastern Arab countries.

EFL Undergraduate Students’ Perspective about the Characteristics of the Effective Instructor at Hashemite University in Jordan

Researchers in different educational fields regard the instructor as an important factor which influences students’ progress. Since students have a direct relationship with the instructor, the researcher has found it necessary to explore their perspectives about the instructors’ characteristics in the teaching-learning context. To achieve this, 190 students responded to a five-point Likert scale questionnaire and 25 responded to an open-end interview question. The researcher used Descriptive statistics, such as the t-test and ANOVA. He also categorized the data obtained from the open-end interview. Results of the study indicated that students attributed the most effective quality in the instructor to knowledge. Results also revealed significant differences in male and female students’ responses to the evaluation attribute category and to the five categories as a whole. With regard to the open-ended interview, results showed that the students’ views differed with their attitudes in terms of focus and agreed in general with students’ views in other research studies.

The Relationship between Religious Commitment and Ego Strength among a Sample of Hashemite University Students

This study aimed to identify the relationship between religious commitment and ego strength among a sample of university students at Hashemite University, Jordan. The study sample consisted of 572 male and female undergraduate students. To achieve the aims of this study, scales of religious commitment and ego strength were developed and satisfactory psychometric properties of validity and stability were provided. The results showed that the levels of religious commitment and ego strength were high. Moreover, the results indicated that there is a positive significant correlation between religious commitment and ego strength. The results also showed there were no statistically significant differences in religious commitment and ego strength due to gender. However, there were statistically significant differences in terms of year of study in favor of fourth -year students and also in terms of specialization in favor of scientific specializations.

The Relationship between Religious Commitment and Ego Strength among a Sample of Hashemite University Students

This study aimed to identify the relationship between religious commitment and ego strength among a sample of university students at Hashemite University, Jordan. The study sample consisted of 572 male and female undergraduate students. To achieve the aims of this study, scales of religious commitment and ego strength were developed and satisfactory psychometric properties of validity and stability were provided. The results showed that the levels of religious commitment and ego strength were high. Moreover, the results indicated that there is a positive significant correlation between religious commitment and ego strength. The results also showed there were no statistically significant differences in religious commitment and ego strength due to gender. However, there were statistically significant differences in terms of year of study in favor of fourth -year students and also in terms of specialization in favor of scientific specializations.

The Efficiency of Online Learning Environment for Implementing Project-Based Learning: Students' Perceptions

Project-based learning is gaining increasing popularity supported by research studies regarding its effectiveness for teaching and learning. In addition, the widespread of digital technologies and sudden disruptions to traditional in-person teaching have accelerated the adoption of online learning. The current study examined students' perceptions of the impact of online learning environment on project-based teaching method. Most universities worldwide have considered online learning encouraging their faculty to use online learning tools, and Hashemite University in Jordan is no exeption. 154 students studying Computers in Education course were selected during the first semester of the academic year 2019/2020 and were devided into two groups. The experimental group consisted of 75 students who studied the course online and 79 students in the control group who studied the course in a face-to-face mode. For the purpose of gathering data, a questionnaire was developed which consisted of 17 items and students' answers were on a four-point Likert scale: 4= strongly agree, 3= agree, 2= disagree, and 1= strongly disagree. Means, standard deviations, and One-Way ANOVA were used to analyze the data. The results of the study showed positive attitudes among students (both online and in-class) toward project-based learning. In addition, the results showed that in-class students had a stronger views of project based-learning than online learning students.

The Educational Philosophy among the Faculty Members at the Hashemite University: الفلسفة التربوية بين أعضاء هيئة التدريس بالجامعة الهاشمية

This study aims to determine the educational philosophy orientations of the faculty members at the Hashemite University. The educational philosophy orientations of faculty were examined using the quantitative research method, through the survey. A questionnaire was developed in order to identify the education philosophy orientations adopted by the faculty members, and results indicated that various philosophical orientations are held by the participants of the study from among the faculty members at the Hashemite University. Results showed that Reconstructionism was the educational philosophy adopted by a large percentage of the participants, followed by progressivism (m=4.17), Constructivism (m=4.15), Perennialism (m=4.10) and essentialism (m=3.67).

The Relationship between Personality Traits, Academic Self-Efficacy and Academic Adaptation among University Students in Jordan

The current study investigates the relationship between personality traits according to the big five personality factors model, academic self-efficacy and academic adaptation among Hashemite University students in light of gender and specialization. The purposive sample consisted of 546 under graduated students, 258 males and 306 females. Three scales are used: the Five Factor Model (FFM), for academic self-efficacy and for academic adaption. The results show statistically significant differences in the average of participants’ degrees attributed to efficacy and academic adaption in favor of females and scientific specializations. They also show that agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience, extroversion and neuroticism are most common among university students, with a statistically significant positive correlation between extroversion, openness to experience, academic self-efficacy and academic adaption and a negative correlation between neuroticism, conscientiousness, academic self-efficacy and academic adaption. No correlation was found between agreeableness and these two variables.

The Impact of Teachers' Guidance and Counseling Role on Students' Discipline in Private Schools: أثر إرشاد المعلمين ودورهم الإرشادي على انضباط الطلاب في المدارس الخاصة

This study aims to investigate the impact and extent of applying teachers' guidance and counseling on students’ discipline in private school. It attempts to answer these questions: what is the allocated time in counseling? What are the required skills of teachers? And what are the most important approaches of counseling? A questionnaire survey was used to obtain the results by distributing it to a sample of 150 private school teachers. Also, the open-end questions are preferred in the questionnaire survey. Validity and reliability test of the instruments was conducted; data was analyzed using percentages and descriptive analysis in SPSS Software. The results showed that there is an impact of guidance and counseling on student' discipline in private schools. There is a lack on the number of counseling sessions and the teachers tend to use individual counseling, group counseling, and nondirective counseling approaches. However, the study's recommendations included: the importance of increasing guidance and counseling awareness, holding more counseling sessions and training programs for the teacher to improve the students' skills. أثر إرشاد المعلمين ودورهم الإرشادي على انضباط الطلاب في المدارس الخاصة The Impact of Teachers' Guidance and Counseling Role on Students' Discipline in Private Schools Nader Fahmi Alzyoud Faculty of Educational Sciences || The Hashemite University || Jordan This study aims to investigate the impact and extent of applying teachers' guidance and counseling on students’ discipline in private school. It attempts to answer these questions: what is the allocated time in counseling? What are the required skills of teachers? And what are the most important approaches of counseling? A questionnaire survey was used to obtain the results by distributing it to a sample of 150 private school teachers. Also, the open-end questions are preferred in the questionnaire survey. Validity and reliability test of the instruments was conducted; data was analyzed using percentages and descriptive analysis in SPSS Software. The results showed that there is an impact of guidance and counseling on student' discipline in private schools. There is a lack on the number of counseling sessions and the teachers tend to use individual counseling, group counseling, and nondirective counseling approaches. However, the study's recommendations included: the importance of increasing guidance and counseling awareness, holding more counseling sessions and training programs for the teacher to improve the students' skills.

The Effect of Inductive and Deductive Teaching on EFL Undergraduates’Achievement in Grammar at the Hashemite University in Jordan

This current study aims at investigating the impact of using inductive and deductive teaching upon EFL undergraduate students’ achievement at the Hashemite University. More specifically, the study attempts to explore the effect of using inductive and deductive approach on students’ achievement in some grammatical issues included a book adopted for teaching Grammar 2 in the Department of English Language and Literature. The research instrument used is a pre-post-test developed by the researchers. Two groups of students are chosen for the purpose of the study. Whereas the experimental group was taught through inductive approach, the controlled group was taught through the deductive approach. Results show significant differences between the means of students’ scores in the two groups on the post-test, in favor of the experimental group. Results also reveal no significant differences according to study-year, the type of school they graduated from, and gender. In light of these results, the researchers suggest some recommendations for TEFL researchers and EFL instructors.

Action Research as Perceived by Student-Teachers in the Field Training Program at Hashemite University / Jordan

Field Training plays a key role in narrowing the gap between theory and practice in the preparation of teachers. University professors and in-service teachers who work in cooperative schools coordinate their efforts to help student-teachers at the Hashemite University link teaching theories to practice.Student-teachers, sometimes, find themselves isolated from theories learned at the universities and feel the gap between theory and practice. As a result, they tend to use traditional teaching methods in the same way they were taught in the past.One of the important requirements of the Field Training Program is asking student-teachers to do action research to clarify issues they face during training. Student-teachers face different problems related to action research: selecting issues, preparing, modeling, implementing, and evaluating the results of the research. Therefore, this study attempts at investigating the student-teachers’ weakness in carrying out Action Research from the students’ own perspective.To achieve the study objectives, the researcher administered a test on (47) student-teachers, and interviewed (6) others.The majority of responses conveyed that student-teachers know how to design action research theoretically but they lack the ability and necessary skills to put this into practice. Based on these findings, this research concludes with some suggestions and recommendations to solve the problem.

Graduate Students’ Perspective about the MA TEFL Program at Hashemite University in Jordan

This current study aimed to investigate MA students’ perspectives about the English as a foreign language (EFL) curriculum and methods of teaching program employed in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the Hashemite University. More specifically, the study attempted to explore the students’ perspectives of the program in terms of strengths and weaknesses. Data was collected through a questionnaire interview from 9 students who were about to finish their study. Findings showed that students highlighted the instructional and research-skill benefits for the program. They also revealed that the main weak points of the program were related to theory or theoretical orientation, statistics, the professor’s behavior, and research project. The findings can be valuable for teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) syllabus designers, TEFL instructors, instructors of other subject areas, and researchers in higher education.

The Impact of Flipped Learning on Procrastination and Students' Attitudes toward It

The current study aimed at investigating the impact of flipped learning model on university students’ procrastination and their attitudes toward flipped learning. The study utilized a quasi-experimental research design, which employed Tuckman's procrastination test, which was administered to all 80 students enrolled in two sections at “computer in education” course offered by the Faculty of education at Hashemite University, Jordan during the first semester of the academic year 2018/2019. The study utilized two research instruments: Tuckman's “Procrastination Test” which consisted of 16 items with five alternatives for each item according to Likert Scale and attitudes questionnaire. Students were divided randomly into two groups: control and experimental groups. The 40 students in the experimental group were taught by flipped learning model while the 40 students in the control group were taught by a traditional model. To answer the research questions, means and standard deviations were calculated for students’ responses on the Tuckman's procrastination test. The results of the study showed that procrastination persisted as there were no significant differences at the level of (α = 0.05) for the benefit of flipped learning model despite the positive attitudes students showed toward flipped learning on the attitudes questionnaire. Based on the results obtained, procrastination proved to be a tough issue, which may require further attention and psychological intervention to help students to overcome the issue, capitalizing on the positive attitudes they showed toward flipped learning.

Social Self-Efficacy and its Relationship to Loneliness and Internet Addiction among Hashemite University Students

The present study investigates the relationship between social self-efficacy, loneliness and internet addiction among Hashemite University students. It defines the level of social self-efficacy, and whether there are statistically significant differences by gender, academic specialization and academic level; and defines the levels of loneliness and internet addiction. The purposive sample consisted of (618) students at Hashemite University. The Social Self-efficacy, Loneliness and Internet Addiction Scales were used. The results show that the level of social self-efficacy was medium, with statistically significant differences in the level of social self-efficacy attributed to students by gender in favor of male students, and in the level of social self-efficacy by academic level in favor of second-year students. The level of loneliness was medium, as was the level of internet addiction. There was a negative correlation between social self-efficacy and loneliness and internet addiction, and a positive correlation between loneliness and internet addiction.

The Effectiveness of Adopting e-Learning during COVID-19 at Hashemite University

e-Learning is the utilization of the electronic technologies and the media to deliver the educational content to the learners, enabling them to interact actively with the content, the teachers, and their peers. Students’ interaction can be either synchronous or asynchronous or a combination of both. One advantage of the e-learning is that learners can access the educational content at any place and time saving them effort, time, and cost. To deal with the unprecedented crisis of COVID-19 and the risk of virus transmission in the public, the vast majority of higher learning institutions globally were locked out and the delivery of the educational content moved from the traditional classroom teaching to the internet. The purpose of this study was to assess students’ perceptions of the effectiveness of the e-learning during COVID-19 pandemic at the Hashemite University, Jordan. A total of 399 students completed the online survey of the study. Study results showed that students’ overall evaluation of their e-learning experiences were generally positive. However, students reported that they faced problems in the e-learning experiences of which most were related to technical issues (e.g., lack of a viable internet network, lack of laptops, etc.). Microsoft Teams was the platform most preferred by students for e-learning and the majority of students accessed the educational content using smart phones. Only gender and student’s academic specialty had significant associations with their perceptions of the effectiveness of the e-learning.

Investigating the Awareness and Usage of Moodle Features at Hashemite University

E-learning plays a vital role in the educational process. Learning management systems are being essential component of e-learning. Moodle learning management system is being widely used in Higher Education Institutions due to the rich features it provides that support the learning process. Standard Moodle comprises 21 features (14 activities and 7 resources). Little research has been carried out to examine these features in particular. In this research, the awareness and usage of Moodle features among faculty members at Hashemite University, Jordan are investigated. A sample of 140 instructors were surveyed. Then, the responses were analyzed to find the overall awareness and usage of each feature. Furthermore, the correlation between awareness and usage and how the awareness of Moodle features is associated with their usage were analyzed through correlation and regression analysis. The study revealed that instructors expressed highest awareness towards File, Folder, Assignment, URL and Quiz features whilst the least awareness was towards SCORM package and IMS content package features. Regarding usage, the study identified the File, Folder, Assignment and URL features as the most heavily used features whereas the least commonly used features have been IMS Content Package, SCORM package, Wiki, Glossary, Workshop, Database, Survey, External tool and Choice. Moreover, the study statistically demonstrated a strong correlation between the awareness and usage of features and that changes in the awareness of Moodle features are significantly associated with changes in their usage. In other words, the study revealed that features with low awareness tend to have low usage and that the usage would increase as the awareness increases. The study would help Moodle administrators in Higher Education Institutions decide about the most important features that should be installed in their customized instance of Moodle. Furthermore, the study would help Hashemite University responsible parties in identifying the least commonly used and the least well-known features, allowing them to focus on increasing the levels of awareness and usage of those features in a way that might reflect positively on the learning process.

Family Violence and Its Implications on Individual and Society

The present study aimed to identify the severity of family violence implications on individual and society in Jordan. It aimed to identify that from the perspective of the students enrolled at the faculties of educational sciences in Jordanian universities. A simple random sample was selected. It consists from 200 female and male students. Those students were selected from the faculties of educational sciences in the University of Jordan, Al-Balqa’ Applied Science and Hashemite University. To meet the study’s goals, the researcher developed a fifteen item questionnaire. It was found that the extent of severity of family violence implications on individual and society in Jordan is moderate. That’s because the overall mean is 2.96. It was found that there isn’t any statistically significant difference between the respondents’ attitudes which can be attributed to their gender or academic year. In the light of the study’s results, several recommendations were suggested. For instance, the researcher recommends promoting awareness among students in Jordanian universities about the way of handling family violence in case they experienced it. She also recommends promoting awareness among students in Jordanian universities about the way of helping the ones who suffer from family violence. Keywords: Family violence, society DOI : 10.7176/JEP/11-3-07 Publication date: January 31 st 2020

ANALYSIS OF EFFECTS OF SOLAR IRRADIANCE, CELL TEMPERATURE AND WIND SPEED ON PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE

This paper proposes an analytical model to investigate the effects of solar irradiance, cell temperature and wind speed on performance of a photovoltaic system built at the Hashemite University, Jordan. The system is off–grid connected with the azimuth and tilt angles are being changed periodically and manually. The model has been developed employing Multivariate Linear Regression to estimate generated power based on experimental data. The methodology of building the model is demonstrated and validated for its accuracy using analysis of variance. The model indicated that a linear relationship among predicting parameters and generated power is valid agreeing with many other reported studies. In addition, the model emphasizes the independency of these predicted parameters; the model indicates that there is no correlation between the predictors themselves. The effect of each predicted parameter also found in agreement with the well-known relationship between each parameter and predicted power through algebraic signs. It is found that the model predicts generated power with R2 values of 96.5% with the solar irradiance being the most effective parameter. Due to the low wind speed for the geographical location where the experiment carried out, its effect according to the model is not significant.

Attitudes Of Special Education Student Teachers At Hashemite University Towards Their Specialization:, A Mixed Methods Design Study

Attitudes Of Special Education Student Teachers At Hashemite University Towards Their Specialization:, A Mixed Methods Design Study

Political Awareness Among The Hashemite University Students:, A Comparative Survey Study

Political Awareness Among The Hashemite University Students:, A Comparative Survey Study

Investigating University Student Violence and the Role Islamic Education can Play to Lessen This Phenomenon

This study aimed at investigating the causes of the university violence and the contribution of Islamic education in confronting it. The sample of the study consisted of (386) students studying at the Hashemite University during the second semester of the academic year 2012/2013. The researcher developed a questionnaire which consisted of (73) items. The results indicated that there were statistically significant differences due to gender and academic year. However, results did not show statistically significant differences due to specialization or grade average. Furthermore, the results indicated that the problem of transportation was considered as the main challenge to the university administration. The need for a transportation policy was seen urgent to reduce university violence. Finally, weak religious and moral beliefs, rigid and traditional teaching methods, and the effect of local, regional, and global media all played a major role in provoking in university violence. The results also indicated that respect for human dignity received the highest average in terms of importance and practice to reduce the phenomenon of university violence.Among the most important recommendations of the current study is working on a solution to the transportation problem and reinforcing the role of the tribe and the religious social values as well as varying and modernizing the university teaching methods and activating the role of the audio-visual and written media to keep pace with the needs of young people.