Students› Expectations of Self-Sufficiency and its  relationship to their Perceptions of Teaching Staffs›  Expectations for their Self-Sufficiency

Kadhim Al-Shimary, Sadiq

	Students› Expectations of Self-Sufficiency and its relationship to their Perceptions of Teaching Staffs› Expectations for their Self-Sufficiency
Journal Dawat
Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 193-215
Author
Sadiq Kadhim Al-Shimary
Abstract
The research aims at exploring students' expectations of self-sufficiency of the students who attended the College of Education for the Humanities, Babylon University and finding out the perceptions of teaching staffs' expectations of the students’ self-sufficiency. Furthermore, the research attempts to demonstrate the relationship between the students' expectations of self-sufficiency and the teaching staffs' expectations of the students’ self-sufficiency. The study sample consisted of 256 male and female students who attend the College of Education for the Humanities. They were selected randomly from the Department of Arabic and Department of Psychology (92 males and 164 females). In order to achieve the aims of the study , a scale of expectations of self-sufficiency was built. After that logical validity was assessed by showing it to a panel of experts in the field of education and psychology . Additionally, the construct validity was assessed by using two extreme groups and the relation between the item and the total score of the scale . The reliability was ascertained by repetition of the test and Cronbach's alpha. The research concludes that there are statistically significant correlations between students' expectations of self-sufficiency and their perceptions of teaching staffs' expectations of the students’ self-sufficiency.

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