Researcher Hassan Mohammed Al-Bayti presented a research paper at the Seventh Scientific Conference of Taibah University in 2016 entitled “Activating Self-Skills to Address University Study Problems.”
The study was supervised by Prof. Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel Hafeez. The aim of this study was to identify ways to activate personal skills (psychological and mental) to address university study problems represented in three axes: specialization, English language in the specialization, and academic achievement.
The problem with the study lies in the lack of means for students to achieve self-development across all university activities. Furthermore, the student's academic achievement is poor due to their poor learning experience with the traditional teaching of a university lecturer. Furthermore, the university student's cognitive difficulty adapting to the English language in their major, as well as their psychological difficulty in accepting the study of it, is also present.
The study sample consisted of (80) students, in (12) specialized tracks and (3) general tracks. The researcher prepared a questionnaire consisting of (18) paragraphs within the three axes of the research, as it relied on the descriptive analytical approach. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed. The results of the study showed a close relationship between those who practice self-skills in their specializations, and the strength of their goals, and their psychological and cognitive difficulties are not radical, and they are mostly enthusiastic in their studies, and their grades are between (B+ : A+).
As for those who rely on traditional methods in their university studies, their goals are not long-term, and they tend to focus only on memorizing the curriculum. What indicates this is that one of their greatest cognitive difficulties is the density of the curriculum, as they see it, which leads to depression when studying the curriculum, and their grades are between (C: B).
The study's recommendations were that students should benefit from the experiences around them in activating their own skills to overcome difficulties, with qualifications from university lecturers, and that the university should address the issue of developing students' own skills in curricula designed for this purpose.
