The Effect of Geographic Constraints on the Academic Achievement of Students at King Saudi University using GIS Techniques: A case study

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2018

القرادي, د. مفرح . 2018

Abstract

This research studied the effect of daily journey geographic constraints of King Saud University

students on their learning achievement, participating in extracurricular activities and visiting the

library. The data collected from a Random sample of the students of King Saud University which

consists of (854) students during the academic year (2016) using the online survey. The

technologies of geographic information systems have been employed to build spatial model to

measure the distance and taken time for the daily student drive from their houses to the

university, whereas 30% from the students’ houses are away of 20 km and there are 35% of the

students who take about 40 minutes to arrive the university, there are 8 % who take about one

hour to arrive at the university. Theses distances and taken time in Riyadh that suffers from high

population density, great numbers of vehicles and urbanization area which makes the daily drive

to be very stressful, exhausting and affecting their academic achievement. The students who

answered that the house location affects their learning achievement are about (68.42%) and about

(63.95%) answered that their house location affects their attendance to the activities held by the

university. Regarding visiting the library, about (58.16) responded that the house location affects

their visit to the library. The study clarified that there is a negative correlation between the

students’ delay times and their academic rate, in other words as the delay times increase as the

GPA is less and therefore the academic achievement is less. Finally, the study suggested to

specifying and rescheduling the work times for employees and students in Riyadh to reduce the

daily drive times, reducing the environmental pollution and economic depreciation in addition to

increasing the student academic achievement through delaying the beginning of study day by one

hour to begin at 9.00 a.m. instead of the current time on 8.00 a.m.

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