The Impact of Using Introductory Problems Solving on the Achievement of Fifth Primary Female Pupils and Developing their Deductive Thinking
Abstract
, ( ) 2007- 2008. , , (40) , , . (1996) (2000) (50) (15) (20) , , , . This Paper aims at Knowing the impact of using Introductory problems Solution in the Achievement and development of Deductive Thinking of Fifth Primary Female Pupils in General Sciences Subject.. The sample is limited to Zubair Bin Al- awam during the academic year 2007-2008.The researchers used the experimental design of two equal groups i.e. control group and experimental group. The control group was taught by Introductory Scientific Problems Solving, while the experimental group was taught by Traditional Method. The sample consists of(40Female Pupils) who were distributed equally on the two groups .Equality between the two groups with regard to the variables has been achieved. The researchers have given permission to the teacher of the subject in the school mentioned above to teach it. The researchers have chosen Deductive Thinking Measurement which has been prepared by (Al- Mualm,2000) and consists of (50) items. Fifteen of these items have been chosen because they were more suitable to the subject under analysis. An Achievement test consisting of (20) multiple- choice items has also been chosen. The researchers have applied the Deductive Thinking Measurement in the pre- and post- test on the two groups of the research after teaching the prescribed material, viz. the first part of the Sciences Subject. The results of the research have shown the reliability of the null hypotheses except the first null hypothesis which shows a statistical significant difference in deductive thinking for the experimental group. Accordingly, the researches have put forward some Recommendations and suggestions, the most important of which is a program for Introductory Solving of Problems and knowing its influence on other kinds of thinking.