The need for Knowledge and its relationship with history achievement of the female students at the fourth at the fourth literary class

Abstract

The current research aims to identify:

1 - The need for knowledge among literary fourth-grade female students.

2- The correlative relationship between the need for knowledge and the achievement of literary fourth-grade female students in the subject of history. 

The research population consists of (928) literary fourth-grade female students for the academic year 2021-2022 in Baqubah district. In order to achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher adopted the descriptive (relational) approach as a research methodology for her study. The researcher prepared the need for knowledge scale, consisting of (30) items and she identified five alternatives for the scale (always, often, sometimes, rarely, never) and the weights of these alternatives (5, 4, 3 , 2, 1). The psychometric properties of the scale were extracted. To complete that, the tools were applied to the basic research sample of (269) female students from the research population mentioned above. Then the data has been analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences (spss) and the results were as follows:

1- The literary fourth grade students have a need for knowledge.

2- There is a statistically significant correlation between the need for knowledge and achievement in the subject of history.

In light of the research results, the researcher presented a number of conclusions, recommendations and suggestions.