The Illusion Of School Incompetence among middle - school students

Abstract

The current research aims to know: The illusion of school incompetence among middle school students. After reviewing the previous literature, the researcher adopted the scale (the illusion of school incompetence), prepared by (Harter, 1982), according to the theoretical model of Phillips (1987), to measure the illusion of school incompetence, which in its adopted form consists of 30 items distributed over three domains. (Cognitive, social, mathematical). After verifying the validity and reliability indicators, the scale was applied to the research sample consisting of (382) male and female students who were randomly selected. The results showed that the middle school students recorded a high degree of the illusion of school incompetence. In light of the results, the researcher developed a number of recommendations and proposals.