The Effect of the Active Reading Strategy on the Achievement of the Second Year Middle School Students in Biology

Abstract

Abstract

The aim of the current research is to identify the effect of the effective reading strategy on the achievement of second-middle students in biology, as well as the imaginative thinking skills of students. The researcher adopted the experimental design with partial control to achieve the goal of the research. The current research community identified the second-middle students in the government schools of the Baghdad Education Directorate / Rusafa I for the academic year (2021-2022 AD). The Safina Intermediate School for Girls was chosen to be the research sample in the form of intentionally, two classes were randomly selected from a total of four classes, one of them is experimental and the other is control, as the research sample consisted of (71) female students, (36) female students in the experimental group, (35) female students in the control group. Equivalence was made between the two research groups (experimental and control) in the variables (intelligence test, chronological age, previous bioinformatics test, imaginative thinking skills test), and teaching plans were prepared for the two groups, as the researcher taught the two research groups herself during the duration of the experiment that lasted (10) weeks for the academic year (2021-2022 AD). As for the two research tools, the researcher prepared an achievement test for chapters from the science book for the second middle school average consisting of (40) test items and two types of questions, the first type objectively consists of (36) items, and the second type is an essay consisting of (4) paragraphs. As the researcher prepared a test for imaginative thinking skills consisting of (12) essay items, divided into four skills, meaning that each skill has three test items. The results revealed that there is a statistically significant difference between the average scores of the two research groups in favor of the experimental group in the achievement test. There is a statistically significant difference between the average scores of the two research groups in favor of the experimental group in the test of imaginative thinking skills. The results also indicated that there is a positive effect of teaching the active reading strategy in the achievement and imaginative thinking skills. In light of this, the researchers made a number of recommendations and suggestions.