Cognitive Beliefs and their Relationship to the Test Wisdom of Anbar University students

Abstract

The aim of the current research is: Identifying the level of cognitive beliefs among university students, Identifying the level of experimental wisdom among university students, Identifying the significance of differences in cognitive beliefs among university students according to two variables: gender (male, female) - specialization (scientific, literary), Identifying the significance of the differences in the experimental wisdom of university students according to two variables: gender (male, female) - specialization (scientific, literary), and the nature of the relationship between cognitive beliefs and the experimental wisdom of university students ,Identifying the extent of the contribution of cognitive beliefs to the experimental wisdom, To achieve these goals, a sample of 300 students from Anbar University was chosen ,They were applied to the research sample so the most prominent results are the following:The level of cognitive beliefs in the research sample is high in all dimensions, There are statistically differences between males and females in favor of males in the first and second dimensions. The absence of differences between males and females in the third and fourth dimensions in cognitive beliefs, The absence of indicating differences according to the variable of specialization (human - scientific) in cognitive beliefs ,The study sample has a high degree of experimental wisdom ,Statistically, there are no differences in the test wisdom between males and females, Statistically, there are indicating differences according to the variable of wisdom test and in favor of scientific specialization ,Cognitive beliefs with their four dimensions are related to experiential wisdom ,Cognitive beliefs with their four dimensions differ in their predictive power of experimental wisdom.  

Keywords

• cognitive beliefs
• experiential wisdom