The Effectiveness of an Educational Unit According To the Constructive Strategy in Developing Thinking Skills for Fifth Primary Students

Abstract

    The current phase distinguish by the rapid scientific development, which pushes individuals to have the necessities of scientific and practical life through the proper scientific thinking which contribute to the development of invention and creativity away from memorizing and indoctrination and encouraging individuals to looking for information and then attempting to process and develop these information instead of being a passive receiver. The investment of minds becomes the logical investment in all societies by preparing the citizen to become able to face life changes and its necessities. It is very important to take care of individuals and develop their mental abilities and thinking skills. The constructive strategy regards as one of the teaching strategies focused on learner, it helps him to learn new knowledge. It underscores on self-learning in which the learner should employ different strategies such as observation, exploration, and trying many other abilities and mental skills. The current research targeted to identify the activity of teaching unit according to constructive strategy in developing some thinking skills for students in fifth grade. The research sample consists of 37 male students from Al-Margay primary school for boys in Baghdad. It has been divided into control and the experimental group consists of (17) students in each group. The experimental group was exposed to the independent variable ('v' strategy) according to the constructive strategy and post-test applied to the two groups to extract differences between the two group marks. The results showed there are statistically significant differences between pretest and posttest on thinking skills for the experimental group, no difference in statistically significant difference between pretest and posttest of thinking skills for the control group. The results also found there is a significant difference between the means of the experimental and control group in posttest on thinking skills