The  first chapter

The importance of research and the need for him

We have recently increased prevalence of behavioral problems rate, especially among young people, and this has become clear to all. In the light of social changes, political and economic and security conditions and technological advances enormous, especially in the means of communication such as the Internet and satellite television and mobile phone, resulted in the entry of some habits and Western values on our society which led to a vibration private values with low economic situation and the increasing youth unemployment and the resulting frustrations led to a situation of social chaos that we see now in th

What we observe from the weakness of the students in some of different subjects may be due to that students are learning these traditional methods and competing to acquire the mark, and attain their teachers' interest ,then their only aim becomes the academicsuccess, and this is whatcontradicts the modern educational philosophy.

          Education needs to be providing it with new ideas and methodologies toprepare an emerging demonstrated scientific reason to distance them from the tradition and indoctrination that do not create generations able to address theexpected problems.

The cognitive behavior of reflectiveincludes planning skil

Suffering of modern man in all societies of psychological problems, social, economic and professional as a result of the evolution of massive technological and rapid disable individual from pursuing it as well as changes caused to human values​​, and these problems psychological problem of loneliness, the loneliness psychological state unique to the human from other organisms because of having social system, affected by and affects it, any defect may occur in the ties that bind man to other children of sex or any change occurs in the social system, reflected on the individual, and the resulting disruption in the social nature syndrome among individuals, what breeds they have the feeling of is

هدف البحث إلى التعرف على مستوى الازدهار النفسي فضلاً عن التعرف على الفروق في مستوى الازدهار النفسي بين الطلبة على وفق الجنس (ذكر – انثى) والتخصص الدراسي (علمي – انساني) والمرحلة الدراسية (أول- رابع)، تألفت عينة البحث من (300) طالبا وطالبة من طلبة جامعة بغداد، وتم تطبيق مقياس البحث - مقياس (الازدهار النفسي) وهو (من إعداد الباحثة)، وقد اسفرت نتائج البحث عن: - إن طلبة الجامعة لديهم مستوى ازدهار نفسي عال. - عدم وجود فروق ف

وهدف البحث إلى التعرف على الاوهام الايجابية فضلاً عن التعرف على الفروق في الاوهام الايجابية بين الطالبات على وفق متغير الحالة الاجتماعية (متزوجة – غير متزوجة) والتخصص الدراسي (علمي – انساني) والمرحلة الدراسية (اول- رابع)، تألفت عينة البحث من (120) طالبة من طالبات جامعة بغداد -كلية التربية للبنات وكلية العلوم للبنات، وتم تطبيق مقياس البحث - مقياس (الاوهام الايجابية) وهو (من إعداد الباحثة)، وقد اسفرت نتائج البحث عن:

Acquisition of metacognition has an effective and important role in educational process, so it can reduce difficulties faced by learners during theirunderstanding of the subjects.

Brown (1980) considers that it is conscious and reflective controlcarried out by the individual in his actions and cognitive responses through the use of self-regulation skills (planning, monitoring and evaluation).

The search problem raises through following question: Havestudents  ofhigh school for distinct metacognition?

Metacognition is very important  , so the effective learninginvolves planning and goalsetting, and monitoring the progress of the individual and adapted as needed, and allthese activities are metacognition i

Academic boredom is one of the most emotional problems that arouse an individual's fatigueness and lowers his interest. This is because of the environment's low efficiency and of spending long monotonous time. This state is characterized by having lack of interest, difficulties in concentration, and the desire to leave the class.  It is considered one of the most prominent forms of boredom widespread among students and the most severe and dangerous one that has negative effects and severe psychological and social problems. The current research aims to investigate a randomly selected sample of 335 students from the first and third grades at the directorates of education (Karkh and Rusafa) who suffers from academic boredom. Similarily

This study addressed the work stress sources and level of the communicator in public relations in governmental institutions in the United Arab Emirates. The importance of this study is the lack of studies on work stress of the communicator in public relations. The study aimed to investigate the work stress source Physical, individual, groups, organizational and Professional source which effect on the performance of communicator in public relations. The researcher used the descriptive approach and questionnaire as an essential tool for collecting information. Some of the important results of the study are The communicator in public relations facing stress in work by 42% which affect on his performance by average level. The organizational

The goal of the study is to discover the best model for forecasting the exchange rate of the US dollar against the Iraqi dinar by analyzing time series using the Box Jenkis approach, which is one of the most significant subjects in the statistical sciences employed in the analysis. The exchange rate of the dollar is considered one of the most important determinants of the relative level of the health of the country's economy. It is considered the most watched, analyzed and manipulated measure by the government. There are factors affecting in determining the exchange rate, the most important of which are the amount of money, interest rate and local inflation global balance of payments. The data for the research that represents the exchange r

Item Difficulty and Item Discrimination Coefficient for School and College Ability Tests (SCAT) Advanced Form in Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) and the Correlation among Them Mohammad moqasqas Haifa T. Albokai Assistant Professor of Measurement and Evaluation Associate Professor of Measurement and Evaluation College of Education, Taibah University The aim of this study was to study the item difficulty and item discrimination of the SCAT (advance form) with CTT, and IRT, and to study the correlation among them. To do this, the researchers used the data of their previous study, which conducted in (2011). It consisted of (3943) subject. Then, they used two-statistical programs (TAP, Bilog-MG-3) to obtain the item