Value Schemata among Secondary Students and Relationship with Academic Achievement in Light of Major

Abstract

The present study seeks to identify the nature of values schemata for secondary level students and their relationship between those values and the academic achievement of students in light of their fields of study. The Stratified Random Sampling procedure was followed to choose the sample of the study which consisted of 350 secondary school students from Irbid the First Directorate of Education, Irbid- Jordan. The researcher developed a 60-item scale as the instrument questionnaire that resembled the values schemata. Means, standard deviations, Pearson’s Correlation Co-efficient were used to test the data. Results of the study showed that a) the values of students were highly rated depending on relative importance for students as follows: cognitive values, economic values, political values, social values, aesthetic values, and religious values sequentially; and b) there are statistically significant differences (=0.05) among mean scores of participants obtained on the values scale attributed to the effect of field of study.