The Effect of a Proposed Strategy According to the Model (Heisig & Verbeck) on the Achievement of Mathematics and Engineering Thinking among the Fifth Science / Biological Students

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the impact of a proposed strategy according to the model of (Heisig & Verbeck) on the achievement of mathematics and engineering thinking among the fifth grade students in biology. The following two null-hypotheses were formulated:

-There is no statistically significant difference at the level of significance (0.05) between the mean scores of the students of the experimental group who studied according to a proposed strategy according to the model (Heisig & Verbeck) and the students of the control group who studied in the usual way in the academic achievement test.

- There is no statistically significant difference at the level of significance (0.05) between the mean scores of the students of the experimental group who studied according to a proposed strategy according to the model (Heisig & Verbeck) and the students of the control group who studied according to the usual method in the academic achievement test. The research community was determined to represent female students of the fifth scientific or biological class from the first Karkh Education Directorate. The research sample is (57) student was randomly selected, the sample was divided into two groups: an experimental group was studied according to the proposed strategy, the model of (Heisig & Verbeck) and a control group was studied according to the traditional way. Equivalence was conducted between the two research groups in terms of age, level of intelligence, and previous achievement. After that, an achievement test was built; its final form consisted of 50 items of the essay and objective type, and an engineering thinking test, in its final form, consisted of 25 items of the essay and topic type. After the end of the experiment, the research tools were applied, and the results were analyzed using the t-test equation for two independent, unequal samples. The results indicated that the students of the experimental group who studied according to the proposed strategy according to the Heisig & Verbeck model excelled over the students of the control group who studied according to the traditional method