Affective Factors Motivating Group Work at Urban Planning and Design Studios Case Study : Local Planning Studio at Urban and Regional Planning Department, king Faisal University

(Jamal al-Din Yusuf Slagor)

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Abstract

The research goal is to diagnose and measure the internal and external factors that contribute to the motivation of the group work for Urban and Regional Planning students, by means of cooperative learning, in order to identify their strength and weakness, and to reach practical proposals that strengthen the group work concepts in soul of one team, as professional requirements for their future carrier. To achieve the goal, an empirical study for a whole semester, was applied on a group of Urban and Regional Planning students, in the third year (intermediate level), College of Architecture and Planning, King Faisal University, in Planning Studios of local area development. The project assigned is about "Development Small City at al-Qatif Sub Region". The empirical measurement has been done at the end of the semester through questionnaires distributed to all the participant students. . The study proves that the theoretical and applied external factors are the most important factors for activating the group work, then the internal factors, which need more time to practice, specially that the participant students sample is from the university intermediate level to accentuate the fact that the educational process is an accumulative process, thus the group work needs to be designed within the curriculum and courses layout. The study ended with some recommendations to activate students group work.
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