Shaqra University Research Articles

Evaluation of the knowledge, prevalence, and practice of self-medication among students of health specialties in Dawadmi Colleges, Shaqra University

Evaluation of the knowledge, prevalence, and practice of self-medication among students of health specialties in Dawadmi Colleges, Shaqra University

The Impact of Educational Technology on Teaching and Frequency of Usage: The Case of Saudi Arabian Universities

Educational technology refers to the application of software, hardware, and other educational accessories to enhance the learning process, and improve learners’ performances. This paper aims to research the various forms of technology integrated into Saudi Arabia’s educational system and to determine how they have been used to enhance learners’ achievements in schools. The study was conducted on 325 students studying political science in five different universities in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh. Samples of students were taken from King Saud University, Prince Sultan University, Shaqra University, Al Yamamah University, and Majmaah University. An online survey on the application of technology in education was sent to all the respondents of the study. To determine the frequency of technology usage and its impact on students’ achievements, the correlation rank coefficient, and descriptive statistics were used. In all five learning institutions, the study revealed a significant relationship between students’ use of technology and their achievements in class. According to the study, 58% of the students used laptops in their learning activities, 35% used mobile devices, 5% used tablets, and 0.5% used desktop computers. This paper details the results of the study to show how technology is used among political science students in the country, and the benefits associated with it. The use of technology in learning processes produces substantial benefits, compared to not utilizing assistive technologies. Nonetheless, further research is required to determine the scale of success associated with educational technology.

Establishing a Counseling Center for students at Shaqra University in Saudi Arabia - A Delphi study

Establishing a Counseling Center for students at Shaqra University in Saudi Arabia - A Delphi study

The Role of Social Engineering in Cybersecurity and Its Impact

An attacker has several options for breaking through an organization’s information security protections. Human factors are determined to be the source of some of the worst cyber-attacks every day in every business. The human method, often known as “social engineering”, is the hardest to cope with. This paper examines many types of social engineering. The aim of this study was to ascertain the level of awareness of social engineering, provide appropriate solutions to problems to reduce those engineering risks, and avoid obstacles that could prevent increasing awareness of the dangers of social engineering—Shaqra University (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). A questionnaire was developed and surveyed 508 employees working at different organizations. The overall Cronbach’s alpha was 0.756, which very good value, the correlation coefficient between each of the items is statistically significant at 0.01 level. The study showed that 63.4% of the surveyed sample had no idea about social engineering. 67.3% of the total samples had no idea about social engineering threats. 42.1% have a weak knowledge of social engineering and only 7.5% of the sample had a good knowledge of social engineering. 64.7% of the male did not know what social engineering is. 68.0% of the administrators did not know what social engineering is. Employees who did not take courses showed statistically significant differences.

Readability and Readability Formulas: English as a Foreign Language Tertiary Education Teachers' Awareness in Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia

This study is an attempt to investigate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) University teachers’ awareness of the readability concept and formulas in Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia. The study also aims at investigating whether this awareness is affected by teachers’ experience. A three-scale questionnaire was designed to gather data from randomly selected 40 EFL teachers. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS program. The results showed that EFL teachers have only an overall awareness of readability concept and are not aware of its formulas. The results also showed that there is a weak relationship between teachers’ awareness of readability and their teaching experience. Based on the findings, the study recommended that the issue of readability and readability formulas should be included in EFL teachers’ pre-service and/or in-service training programmes.
 Keywords: readability, readability formulas, reading passages, EFL teachers

The reality of crisis management at Shaqra University in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from the deans' point of view: The Corona pandemic crisis as a model

The reality of crisis management at Shaqra University in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from the deans' point of view: The Corona pandemic crisis as a model

Effect of Categorizing EFL Shaqra University Students' Writing Errors on Writing Improvement

This paper aims at using a strategy of categorizing EFL Shaqra University students' writing errors and identifying its effect in improving students' writing. The study hypothesized that categorizing students' errors into main headings related to the types of error, frequencies of error, examples of errors, and causes of errors will provide precise insight into the nature of students' errors. Moreover, providing students with models to read and extract the difficult vocabularies from them, understanding their meanings, and using them in their writing will improve students' writing. Hence, the researcher gave 65 female students a title to write about in lecture number one as a pre-test. The title was "women driving in Saudi Arabia", and in lecture number eleven, she gave them a post-tester in the same title after applying the hypothesized teaching strategy. The findings of students' essay analysis in the pre-test proved that students had many grammatical and lexical mistakes but in the post-test the students writing improved significantly in terms of style, diction, developing ideas, spelling, and punctuation. Even their errors decreased from 936 errors in the pre-test to 57 errors in the post-test which indicates the success of the teaching strategy adopted by the researcher. Accordingly, the researcher recommended that: firstly, instructors should categorize their students' writing errors to have a clear insight into the nature of their students' errors hence specifying much time in explaining the areas of students' weaknesses. Secondly, instructors should provide students with a well-written model to read; and then ask them to criticize those reading models. The students will learn through criticizing and imitating the style of reading models. Moreover, the instructors of Shaqraa should specify much time explaining morphology since it was the branch that the students make many errors in it.

Linguistic Impediments of Communicative Proficiency: A Case Study of Students in the CSHS, Shaqra University, Thadiq, KSA

This paper examines the linguistic barriers that impede English language communicative proficiency of the students of English language in the college of sciences and humanity studies, Thadiq, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia. The paper gives the specific linguistic problems that detain attaining a perfect English language communicative competence. The paper also examines the teaching strategies that help students reach competency in oral skill. It concludes with some suggestions that help students to achieve a higher proficiency in English language communication. 

Adopting Remote Teaching in the Time of Covid-19: Challenges and Opportunities

In the wake of the global pandemic – COVID-19, the transitioning of the ongoing education journey into Remote Learning poses challenges and evolving opportunities to thousands of instructors, educators, stakeholders, and learners. This unprecedented COVID-19 situation has mainly situated the teachers and learners into the uncomfortable position for not only having to continue teaching-learning online classes for the first time but also to do it without any notice or preparedness. Behind such backdrop, this paper attempts to explore the challenges and opportunities for adopting Remote Teaching in the time of COVID-19. To this end, this study devised a survey questionnaire for students of Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia, to have a ground reality of the situation and prospects of teaching-learning online. The collected data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The study result suggests that in response to the immediate impact of school closures, it is necessary to facilitate the continuity of education for all through remote learning mode, which is safe and suitable for the current world situation by ensuring the digital devices, internet infrastructure, the availability of the communication network to the peripheral users in rural interiors and teacher-students training for new survival digital skills. The study also reflected that the excellent benefits of learning technology and media apps help continue the wheel of education through impacting the learners’ motivation and immersion to learning. Moreover, this study will be contributing literature in shaping higher education in the post-Covid-19 pandemic era.

Saudi scholars’ perceptions and use of open government data portals at Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia

This article reports the findings of a study on open data usage among Saudi scholars. It investigates the sample’s perceptions of open data and open data portals. The study reported the factors affecting the participants’ decision to use open data and aimed to understand Saudi researchers’ practices and perceptions related to the use and sharing of open data. It adopted a quantitative approach and a questionnaire was distributed to and collected from 190 Saudi academic staff to measure their perceptions, their open data usage, the benefits of open data, and the factors that significantly impacted their open data utilization. The findings reveal that 42.1% of Saudi researchers used government open data portals and regularly visited open data portals provided by the university and the government mainly for research purposes. The results also indicate that open data portals enabled Saudi researchers to obtain useful data for their research while giving them the tools to visualize and understand the data.

Studying faculty members’ readiness to use Shaqra University e-learning platform

In Saudi Arabia, most universities are seeking to implement e-learning to improve education access and processes. Although some universities have already implemented e-learning, most have not. Shaqra University is aiming to implement an e-learning system. Therefore, through the use of a questionnaire, this study examines faculty members’ readiness to use the e-learning platform and assesses their readiness based on gender differences and user experience. Factors considered were usage self-efficacy, self-confidence in dealing with e-learning, Attitude towards e-learning and educational needs towards e-learning. The results revealed that, based on all these factors, faculty members were ready to use the platform of e-learning. There were no differences between male and female participants in self-efficacy in using information and communications technology, self-confidence in e-learning and educational needs towards e-learning. The females’ mean score was significantly higher than the males’ mean score. Between faculty members with no experience and faculty members’ who were experienced in e-learning, user experience was significantly different for self-efficacy of using information and communications technology, self-confidence in e-learning and attitude towards e-learning. These results revealed that faculty members are ready to use a platform of e-learning and these results may help decision makers in Shaqra University to successfuly adopt an e-learning platform.

Nursing Students Engagement and Motivational Education Environment as A Requirement to Improve Student's Self-Esteem.

INTRODUCTION: Nursing student engagement and educational environment play an important role in students' self-esteem. Therefore, all aspects of an person's life like academic achievement, the success in the job and social and professional development are affected by self-esteem, for that reason, the present study was aimed to investigate nursing student engagement and motivational education environment as requirements to improve Student's Self-Esteem. SUBJECT AND METHODS: A cross-sectional approach was used included 138 undergraduate male and female nursing students from the Shaqra University, (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). Three electronic tools built-in Google drive to collect data: Student engagement scale, Motivational educational environment questionnaire, and Self-Esteem Scale. RESULTS: More than half of the student nurses had a high engagement level in females and males but slightly high in females than males. Educational environment subcategories and show that the total educational environment in the level of motivational environment slightly high in females (93.9%), as compared with males. Self-esteem among it was high level (equal) in female and male. CONCLUSIONS: There were positive relationships between the total educational environment, many of their areas, and self-esteem among nursing students so, motivation educational environment were a requirement to improve the level of self-esteem among nursing students. Hence, allowing student choices throughout the classes will provide an ideal opportunity as well as foster a sense of belonging to learning that is essential to developing competence and lifelong dedication (and high-quality nursing staff with high-quality performance).

Using the Edmodo Educational Platform in Teaching Methods Course and its Effects on Achievement and Development of Critical Thinking Among Female Students of the Kindergarten Department Faculty of Education in Al-Muzahimiyyah, Shaqra University

Using the Edmodo Educational Platform in Teaching Methods Course and its Effects on Achievement and Development of Critical Thinking Among Female Students of the Kindergarten Department Faculty of Education in Al-Muzahimiyyah, Shaqra University

الدفاع عن المملکة العربیة السعودیة واجب شرعی دراسة تأصیلیة

الدفاع عن المملکة العربية السعودية واجب شرعي دراسة تأصيلية حسن بن يحيى ظافر الشهري . قسم الدراسات الإسلامية ، کلية العلوم والدراسات الإنسانية بالدوادمي، جامعة شقراء ، المملکة العربية السعودية . البريد الإلکتروني :hasn5024@gmail.com ملخص البحث: هدف هذا البحث إلى بيان الواجب الشرعي للدفاع عن المملکة العربية السعودية من خلال نصوص القرآن الکريم والسنة النبوية وأقوال السلف الصالح y وأفعالهم، وقد استخدم الباحث المنهج الاستقرائي والاستنباطي لتتبع النصوص والاستدلال بها، وقد رصف الباحث البحث في مقدمة وأربعة مباحث: الأول: وجوب الدفاع عن الدين وقيمه الإسلامية، والثاني: وجوب الدفاع عن الوطن ومقدساته الإسلامية والمکتسبات الإنسانية، والثالث: وجوب الدفاع عن ولاة الأمر في المملکة العربية السعودية، والرابع: وجوب الدفاع عن المجتمع في المملکة العربية السعودية، کما خلص البحث إلى نتائج منها: اهتمام القرآن الکريم والسنة النبوية بحماية المقدسات الإسلامية ووجوب الدفاع عنها وحماية الديار والذمار([1])، ووجوب الدفاع عن ولاة الأمر وهم: العلماء والأمراء؛ لأن ذلک يعد دفاعا عن الدين والعباد والبلاد، وقد اعتمد الباحث- بعد استعراض عدد من التفاسير- في تفسير الآيات القرآنية على أربعة تفاسير هي: تفسير القرطبي وتفسير ابن کثير وتفسير القاسمي وتفسير السعدي، وذلک لسهولة الأسلوب وقرب المعنى من موضوع البحث، کما أوصى الباحث بضرورة تضمين المقررات الدراسية وخطب الجمعة والمؤتمرات والندوات العلمية والبرامج الإعلامية والثقافية بعض موضوعات الدفاع عن المملکة العربية السعودية ووسائل ذلک وأساليه. الکلمات المفتاحية :الدفاع ، المملکة العربية السعودية ، الواجب الشرعي ، القرآن الکريم ، السنة النبوية . Defending the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a legitimate duty An original study Hassan bin Yahya Zafer Al-Shehri Department of Islamic Studies, College of Sciences and Humanities in Dawadmi, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia. E-mail : hasn5024@gmail.com Abstract : The aim of this research is to demonstrate the legitimate duty to defend the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia based on evidence from the Noble Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet and the sayings of the righteous predecessors and their actions. The researcher used the inductive and deductive approaches in tracking the texts and making inferences. The research consists of an introduction and four sections: The First: the obligation to defend the religion and its Islamic values. The Second: the responsibility to defend the homeland and its Islamic sanctities and human gains. The Third: the duty to defend the rulers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Fourth: the onus to defend the Saudi society. The conclusions of the research comprised: The Noble Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet emphasized the need to protect and defend Islamic sanctities as well the lands and all cherished possessions. The necessity to defend the rulers who are scholars and princes as being essential part of the defense of religion, people and the homeland. After reviewing a number of Tafsirs (interpretations of the Quran), the researcher relied on four Tafsirs, namely: Al-Qurtubi's Tafsir, Ibn Katheer’s Tafsir, Al-Qasimi’s Tafsir and Al-Saadi’s Tafsir, because of their uncomplicated approach and the proximity of their meanings to the subject of the research. The researcher also recommended that academic courses, Friday sermons, academic conferences and seminars as well as media and cultural programs should include some topics on the defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the means and methods to accomplish that. Key words : Defend , The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia , The legitimate Duty, The Noble Quran, The Sunnah Of The Prophet. ([1])- الذمار: «کل ما يلزمک حفظه وحياطته وحمايته والدفع عنه»، لسان العرب، لمحمد بن مکرم بن منظور الأفريقي المصري، دار صادر، بيروت،4/311، ط1، 1410هـ.

The Effectiveness of a Remote Training Program in Developing the Skills of using the Moodle E-learning Management System among Faculty Members of Shaqra University

The Effectiveness of a Remote Training Program in Developing the Skills of using the Moodle E-learning Management System among Faculty Members of Shaqra University

Obstacles to the Application of the Settlement System and its Impact on Unemployment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Case study of Afif Governorate

RESEARCH ARTICLE Obstacles to the Application of the Settlement System and its Impact on Unemployment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Case study of Afif Governorate , Rahaf Mohammed Alazmia Sara Ayed Alotaibia, Shmookh Mansour Alharbia, Noof Jaiz Almotairia a Master's student in Business Administration - Shaqra University - Saudi Arabia Abstract The study aimed to uncover the causes of obstacles to the application of the Emiratisation system, and its impact on unemployment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as seen by the unemployed in Afif Governorate, and to achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was prepared consisting of 17 questions distributed on the obstacles related to Emiratisation, which are obstacles related to citizens, obstacles related to private sector organizations. Constraints related to regulatory bodies, impediments related to society, were applied to the study sample of 40 individuals who were selected by the simple random stratified method. The results of the study showed that the obstacles that prevent the implementation of the Emiratisation system in Afif governorate are that the private sector companies were few, and then came the area of obstacles related to private sector organizations. In light of these results, the study recommends a number of recommendations, the most important of which is to increase the branches of companies in the governorates of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and to conduct more studies in these areas of Emiratisation, so that the upcoming studies include larger geographical areas. Keywords: localization, unemployment, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Afif Governorate

Evaluating the Translation of Accusative of Purpose by EFL learners

Arabic is the most widely spoken Semitic language and has seen phases of change from the Quranic form to the more popular Modern Standard Arabic that is used for communication today. Teachers of language and translation in KSA are concerned with learning problems that arise due to lexical and grammatical non-equivalence between Arabic and English which often leads to confusion and incorrect output during translation process. The current study aimed at investigating one of the Arabic grammatical structures which has no direct equivalent in English (Accusative of Purpose). It is an original noun derived from a verb of affectivity, explaining the reason why the action of the previous verb has been done. Two objectives were targeted: One, testing the learners’ ability to translate the Accusative of Purpose; and two, to gather an understanding of the strategies they adopted in the process. The study is likely to be of great value in a foreign language learning environment as is the case in the KSA. We used written tests to collect the data, followed by detailed interviews to elicit information on the translation strategies used. Participants were female undergraduate students (N=35) at Hurimilla College of Science and Humanities, Shaqra University, KSA, of which fifteen were randomly interviewed consequently. Both qualitative and quantative approaches were used. The data collected was analysed using SPSSR. The results revealed that (36.0%) of the students’ translations were correct or acceptable, while 34.3% were literal, and (15.4%) were incorrect. Personal interviews revealed that reasons of these results can be attributed to the absence of this category in English, and non-equivalence between Arabic and English. Based on these findings, the present study suggests more investigations on similar Arabic structures which have no correspondence in English using larger number of participants.

The Administrative Problems Confronting Faculty Members At Shaqra University, Shanghai University, And Technical Colleges: A Comparative Study

The Administrative Problems Confronting Faculty Members At Shaqra University, Shanghai University, And Technical Colleges: A Comparative Study

Faculty e-Learning Adoption During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Shaqra University

e-Learning can generally be applied by employ-ing learning management system (LMS) platforms designed to support an instructor to develop, manage, and provide online courses to learners. During the COVID-19 pandemic, several LMS platforms were adopted in Saudi Arabian institutions, such as Moodle and Blackboard. However, in order to adopt e-learning and operate LMS platforms, there is a need to investigate factors that influence the capability of faculty to utilize e-learning and its perceived benefits on students. This paper examines how training support and LMS readiness factors influence the capability of faculty to adopt e-learning and student perceived benefits. A quantitative research method was conducted using an online questionnaire survey method. Research data was collected from 274 faculty members, who used Moodle as a main LMS platform, at Shaqra University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The results reveal that training support and LMS readiness have a positive influence on the faculty’s capability to adopt e-learning, which leads to enhancing students’ perceived benefits. By identifying the factors that influence e-learning adoption, universities can provide enhanced e-learning services to students and support faculty through providing adequate training and powerful e-learning platform.

درجةُ توافُر مُقَوِّمَاتِ العَمَلِ عن بُعْدٍ بجامعة شقراء على ضوء جائحة کورونا ((covid-19. The availability degree of telework components at Shaqra University in light of Covid-19 Pandemic

هدف هذا البحث إلى الکشف عن درجة توافر مقومات العمل عن بعد في جامعة شقراء على ضوء جائحة کورونا (covid-19) ، ومعرفة المقترحات التي قد تسهم في توفير مقومات العمل عن بعد في جامعة شقراء، وقد استخدم الباحث المنهج الوصفي المسحي کما استخدم الاستبانة؛ أداة للدراسة، وتکون مجتمع الدراسة من عمداء، ووکلاء، ومدراء الإدارات، بجامعة شقراء ، والبالغ عددهم (113)، واستخدم الباحث أسلوب الحصر الشامل، وقام بتطبيق أداة الدراسة إلکترونيا على مجتمع الدراسة، بلغت عدد الردود (100) مستجيب، وتوصلت الدراسة إلى مجموعة من النتائج، أبرزها ما يلي: أن أفراد الدراسة موافقون بدرجة عالية على درجة توافر مقومات العمل عن بعد في جامعة شقراء في ضوء جائحة کورونا (covid-19) ، وتبين من النتائج أن أبرز العبارات التي حصلت على الموافقة بدرجة عالية في هذا المحور هي: يتم إعداد التقارير المطلوبة بشکل دوري عن سير العمل والارتقاء به بشکل مستمر، يتم عقد اجتماعات المجالس المختصة ( القسم ، الکلية ، مجلس الجامعة ، عن طريق أنظمة العمل عن بعد في الأوقات المحددة لها، تباشر اللجان العلمية المختصة أداء مهام عملها عن بعد في أزمة کورونا. وکشفت النتائج أن أفراد الدراسة موافقون بدرجة کبيرة على أهم المقترحات التي تسهم في توفير مقومات العمل عن بعد في ضوء أزمة کورونا، وتبين من النتائج أن أبرز المقترحات، هي :امتلاک الجامعة لتطبيقات وأنظمة تقنية حديثة خاصة بها تتوفر فيها برامج أمن المعلومات، تزويد البوابة الإلکترونية بقاعدة بيانات ومعلومات تقنية متکاملة تسهل العمل عن بعد، تدريب العاملين على أنظمة العمل عن بعد وآليات استخدامها في العمل عن بعد. وأظهرت النتائج عدم وجود فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية في استجابات أفراد الدراسة نحو (فاعلية العمل عن بعد، أهم المقترحات) باختلاف متغير الوظيفة. وفي ضوء هذه النتائج؛ أوصت الدراسة بوضع التشريعات واللوائح الإدارية المنظمة لاستخدام أنظمة وتطبيقات العمل عن بعد، وتزويد العاملين بالمهارات اللازمة للتعامل مع الأنظمة والبرامج التقنية المستخدمة في العمل عن بعد، وضرورة امتلاک الجامعة لتطبيقات وأنظمة تقنية حديثة خاصة بها تتوفر فيها برامج أمن المعلومات. This study aims to identify the availability degree of telework components at ShaqraUniversity in light of Covid-19 pandemic. It also aims to identify proposals that may contribute to providing telework components at ShaqraUniversity. The researcher used a descriptive survey approach. He also used the questionnaire as a tool for his study. The study community consisted of deans, deputy deans, and department heads at ShaqraUniversity, whose number is 113. The researcher used the Complete Census style. He electronically applied the study to the study community. He got responses from 100 respondents. The study concluded a group of results, notable among these are: Study individuals agree with a high degree on “the availability degree of telework components at ShaqraUniversity in light of Covid-19 Pandemic”. Results showed that the most prominent phrases with high agree degree are: the required reports, of workflow and developing it, are being prepared periodically – meetings of competent boards (the department, the college, and the university board) were held through telework systems on time – the competent boards carry out its functions remotely under COVID-19. Results revealed that the study individuals agree with a high degree on the most important proposals that may contribute to providing telework components at ShaqraUniversity. Results showed that the most significant proposals are: The university has modern systems and applications with information security programs, providing the portal with an integrated database and technical information that make telework easy, to train staff on telework systems and techniques of using it in telework. Results showed that there are no statically significant differences within the study sample responses towards (the effectiveness of telework, the most significant proposals) with the difference of the job variable. In light of these results, the study recommended the following: To develop legislations and administrative regulations to regulate using telework systems and applications, To qualify staff with skills required to deal with systems and technology programs used in telework. The university should have modern technologies and applications with information security programs.