Problem Solving Skills and Mental Processes among students in the faculty of Sports Science at Moata University

Abstract

Abstract Problem Solving Skills and Mental Processes among students in the faculty of Sports Science at Moata University The purposes of this study was to determine the level of problem solving in order skills and mental process among students in the faculty of sport science at Moata university, in order to investigate the differences of problem solving skills and mental processes among students according to some variables such as gender, years of study, GPA, desire. Moreover, this study aimed at identifying statistical significant relationship between the problem solving skills and the mental processes. The number of participants in this study included (N=121) male and female students who were chosen randomly from the population of the study. The researchers designed an instrument that contains (26) items to evaluate the problem solving skills. Furthermore, the (Schmeck et al,1977) scale was utilized to assess the students’ mental learning processes. The results of study revealed that the level of problem solving skills of students ranged from good to very good, while the mental processes ranged from weak to average. Regarding the differences among the independent variables, the results indicated that no significant differences exist due to studied variables (gender, year of study, GPA, and the desire). Finally, no significant relationship was found among problem solving skills and mental processes, except between the deep processing and decision making. Key word, problem solving skill, Information processing and mental process.