College students' cognition of the Arab World map |
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| Authors: | Rimmawi Hussein Snaf Dr |
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| Institution: | (1) College of Education, King Saud University, Abha Branch, Abha, Saudi Arabia |
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| Abstract: | Conclusion It has been found that the Fishbein model is a good predictor of college students' behavior, but it was found that students' of the College of Education are influenced by attitude variables more than social norms in their intention to draw a clear map of the Arab World. This result illustrates that students are independent and have the will to learn. The results of the analysis point to an alarming conclusion: students are weak in geography background despite taking many geography classes at all levels of scholl. This leads to the conclusion that more attention should be paid toward teaching geography in the Saudi Arabian school system. Teaching geography should be accompanied by developing a cognition map of the Arab World.Students' cognition is very clear in the Arabian peninsula states. However, cognition weakens toward the Levant and North Africa. It seems that steps are not taken for the purpose of building a good cognitive map of the Arab World in classrooms. Also, geography text-books in schools and colleges do not have well designed and produced maps. Furthermore, something should be done to improve our students' attitude and subjective norm. Further research may find that cognition of the Arab students for North Africa is better in North Africa than in the Arabian peninsula states. |
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