The Role of Saudi Universities in Promoting Moderation among their Students

Abstract

The study investigated the role of Saudi universities in promoting moderation among their students through development of cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains. The study also explored the effect of the particular university attended on the study sample members’ opinion of the level of the role of Saudi universities in promoting moderation. (Universities in the study included Umm Al-Qura University, King Saud University, King Faisal University, King Khalid University, and Tabuk University.) The study used the descriptive approach in its survey method; the researcher prepared a questionnaire composed of 34 items distributed in three domains (cognitive, psychomotor, and affective). The instrument was applied to a sample of 397 male and female Saudi university students. The most significant result of the study was that the role of Saudi universities in promoting moderation among their students through the development of the affective domain also had a high rating level with the mean score of the total domain items of 4.12 and a standard deviation of 0.85. Further, the role of universities in promoting moderation among their students through the development of the cognitive domain had a high rating level with an arithmetic mean of the total domain items of 4.10 and a standard deviation of 0.88.

Received: 12 December 2022 / Accepted: 20 February 2023 / Published: 6 March 2023