The impact of The Bransford and Stein Model on the Achievement of Fifth-Grade Literary Students for Geography and their Reflective Thinking

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the effect of the Bransford and Stein model on the achievement of fifth-grade literary students for geography and their reflective thinking. To achieve the objective of the research, the following two null hypotheses were formulated:

• There is no statistically significant difference at the significance level (0.05) between the average scores of the experimental group students who studied geography using the Bransford and Stein model and the average scores of the control group students who studied the same subject in the usual way in the achievement test. 2- There is no statistically significant difference at the significance level (0.05) between the average scores of the experimental group students who studied geography using the Bransford and Stein model and the average scores of the control group students who studied the same subject in the usual way in the reflective thinking test. The current research was limited to students of the fifth literary grade in secondary and intermediate day schools of the General Directorate of Education in Baghdad / Karkh third for the academic year (2019-2020) AD. The researcher adopted the experimental design with partial control for the two experimental and control groups with the same post-test, given that the current research contains one independent variable, which is (Bransford and Stein model) and two dependent variables, which are (achievement) and (reflective thinking). The researcher developed two tests, one for achievement, consisting of (32) items, and the other for reflective thinking, consisting of (30) items. The findings revealed that the results related to academic achievement (the first hypothesis) showed that the students of the experimental group who studied using the Bransford and Stein model were superior to the students of the control group who studied based on the traditional method in the achievement test for geography. As for the result related to reflective thinking (the second hypothesis), it showed that the students of the experimental group who studied using the Bransford and Stein model were superior to the students of the control group who studied based on the traditional method in the reflective thinking test. In light of these results, the researcher presented a set of recommendations and suggestions