The Educational Effect of an Extension Program to Develop Awareness of Family Affairs among University Female Students

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Due to  the importance of  rehabilitation of persons who are intended  to get marriage and providing them with the necessary skills for its success was important to pay attention to the preparation of the girl to perform the functions of the family as wives and mothers through the orientation and extension programs, from this point  this study was designed to raise the level of knowledge of her family out of Saudi Arabia through the identification of some social and economic characteristics for the respondents girls and their families, as well as to identify the information and skills that must be made known to the girl to perform the functions of family, in addition to the planning and implementation of a extension program addresses the deficiencies in the information and skills of the girl that related to her family functions, (program assessment) and study the impact of implementing the program on the indicative information and skills that  related to her family functions, and examine the connectivity between some of the independent and dependent variables in question.
To achieve those goals a descriptive analytical method, was applied and approach the experimental technique based on the use of a single group where it is a test (before me - after me). Where the questionnaire contained a form designed to match the phrases with the framework and objectives of the study, which was distributed on the first sample (total sample), it is An accrdental sample of girls in the first level of university study at the Faculty of Education for Home Economics and Art Education in Jeddah, the number was 232. After that  the extension program was applied on the second sample (sub-sample), this sample was selection from the total sample, including the previous data collection has reached 31 students. One of the most important findings of the study as follows:
 - Before implementing the program, the level of knowledge on the students  respondents regarding the tasks related to husband and care for children by an average 92.67% and 70.26% respectively, while a good level by 81.9% with respect to the task of managing family life. After implementing the extension program the indicative level of knowledge of students has increased to become good in the three areas of study.
- The highest rate of increase in the Average Ratings, and therefore a higher benefit from the program in the area of the relationship between the spouses (26.06%), followed by the area of child care (20.38%) and the management of family life (14.6%).
- There are moral differences at the level of potential (0.01) in all areas of study before implementing the program and after
- the study assured the effectiveness of the Extension Education program to improving the awareness level of the students about family affairs.

 
 
 
 
 

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