The effect of divergent thinking strategies on the generative thinking skills of fifth- grade female students
Ban Alaa-ALdeen Shakir Prof.Dr. Suhad Abdul Ameer Abbood
Abstract
The research aimed at identifying the effect of complex thinking strategies on the skills of generative thinking
among fifth graders in the biological sciences, and to achieve the goal of the research, the two researchers adopted a
semi-experimental research approach with partial control of two equal groups with post-testing of the skills of
generative thinking, and the experiment was applied to the research sample of (63 ) students of the fifth grade of the
biological sciences in the (Eternity High School for Girls ) for the academic year ( 2021-2022 AD ), and the number
of students of the experimental group was ( 32 ) students and the control group was (31 ) students, and the two
groups were rewarded in some of the following variables (the actual age of the students in months, Parental
academic level , intelligence testing, previous achievement of chemistry, testing of previous information for
chemistry ), and the research tool was prepared and built, a test of the skills of generative thinking, which consisted
of ( 28 ) paragraphs, including ( 20 ) objective paragraphs of the type of choice of a multiplicity of four alternatives
and ( 8 ) article paragraphs, and the validity of the Constructivist and the stability coefficient was verified, as well as
the psychometric properties of the test paragraphs, and the results of the research showed the presence of a biosignificant difference at the level of significance ( 0.05 ) between the average grades of the students of the Trip
group, who studied a subject Chemistry using divergent thinking strategies and between the mean scores of control
group students who studied chemistry using the usual method of testing generative thinking skills in favor of the
experimental group.