The achievement struggle among students of the Department of History at the University of Diyala

Abstract

The current research aims to identify:
1- The achievement struggle among students of the History Department at Diyala University.
2- The significance of the statistical differences in the achievement struggle of the students of the History Department at the University of Diyala according to the gender variable (males - females).
To achieve the objectives of the current research, the researcher adopted the descriptive (relational) approach to his study. The research community may consist of (859) male and female students, and the current research sample included (266) male and female students who were chosen by the random stratified method from the University of Diyala, College of Education for Human Sciences and College of Basic Education.
The researcher built a scale of achievement struggle among university students based on the theory of the five major factors of Costa and McCrea (Costa & McCrea, 1992), and it consisted in its final form of ((50 items distributed within (5) main areas, and placed in front of each paragraph (5) alternatives are: : (always, often, sometimes, rarely, never) The students’ answers scores were calculated in the research sample for each scale and the data was analyzed using the appropriate statistical means through the (Spss) program.
The researcher reached the following results:
1- Students of the History Department at Diyala University possess the achievement struggle at a high level.
2- There is no statistically significant difference in the achievement struggle according to the gender variable (male-female).