The Effectiveness of Thinking Aloud Strategy for Developing Literary Appreciation Skills among the Prep –School Students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

This study aims to examine how effective a self-questioning strategy is at developing academic achievement and critical-thinking skills in the jurisprudence curriculum (Fiqh), followed by secondary-school students. The research sample is taken from secondary-school students in Dammam, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA); 64 students from two different schools were selected: 32 as a control and 32 as an experimental group. The research instruments consist of an achievement test, a test to see how critical-thinking skills are applied to the Fiqh curriculum, and a teachers’ guide to teaching the Fiqh curriculum, using the self-questioning strategy. The study recommends the use of the self-questioning strategy when teaching the Fiqh curriculum to secondary-school students. It also highlights the need to raise teachers’ awareness of the importance of teaching critical-thinking skills. Considering the research results and recommendations, the researchers recommend several further avenues of research related to the current research variables.

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Numerical Concepts between the Reality of Elementary Students' Understanding and their Teachers' Beliefs towards this Understanding in Saudi Arabia

Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies [JEPS] ◽

10.24200/jeps.vol8iss2pp319-332 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 319

Author(s):

Ibrahim R. Osman ◽

Misfer S. El Souloli ◽

Khaled H. Kashan

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Sample Size ◽

Elementary School Students ◽

Sixth Grade ◽

Female Students ◽

Multiple Choice Questions ◽

School Students ◽

Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Teachers Beliefs

The aim of the study was to identify the understanding of elementary school students of numerical concepts, and the beliefs of their teachers about this understanding. To achieve this goal, the content of the mathematics sixth grade textbook was analyzed to identify the numerical concepts. Then, a conceptual diagnostic test consisting of 24 multiple-choice questions to measure the understanding of numerical concepts was designed. Another questionnaire was built to measure the teachers' beliefs about their students understanding of these concepts. The teachers' questionnaire included 24 concepts as well. The sample size was 1411 male and female students; and the sample size of teachers was 528 mathematics teachers. Both were drawn randomly from three cities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The test of students showed that about 4.2% of the numerical concepts were highly understandable, whereas the questionnaire showed that teachers believed their students understood 17% of the concepts. Furthermore, students moderately understood about 37.5% of the concepts, while the questionnaire showed that teachers believed their students moderately undersood about 83% of the concepts. Moreover, the test showed that about 58.3% of the concepts were poorly understood, whereas the questionnaire showed that there were no concepts that would be poorly understood. The study found that there were statistically significant differences due to gender, credential, and experience; however, there was no statistically significant difference attributed to training on teachers' beliefs about students' understanding of mathematics.

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E-learning effectiveness in developing scientific research skills among high school students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: فاعلية التعليم الإلكتروني في تنمية مهارات البحث العلمي لدى طالبات المرحلة الثانوية بالمملكة العربية السعودية

المجلة العربية للعلوم ونشر الأبحاث مجلة العلوم التربوية والنفسية ◽

10.26389/ajsrp.n260120 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (32) ◽

Author(s):

Eman Amubarak A Alghamdi, Eman Mohamed Mabrouk Kotb

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Secondary School ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Female Students ◽

Control Group ◽

School Students ◽

Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽

Research Skills ◽

E Learning ◽

Experimental Group

The study aimed to measure the effectiveness of e-learning in developing scientific research skills for high female school students in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the study relied on the semi-experimental Method in order to reveal the effectiveness of the independent variable (e-learning) on the dependent variable which is (the development of scientific research skills), the study population consisted of secondary school students in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the academic year 1439 ah, in the second secondary class of the twenty-fourth secondary school for girls in Dammam, and the second secondary school for girls in Dammam, as the individuals of the sample were randomly chosen, and the number of female students for whom the study was applied was (72) female students, they were divided into two groups, one is experimental and the other is a control, and the experimental group consisted of (36) female students, using e-learning program, while the control group consisted of (36) female students, using traditional learning, the study tools have been built, which are: an achievement test, a note card, and ensuring the validity and reliability of the tools, The researcher reached through the study that there is a statistically significant difference at the level (0.05) between the average scores of female students of the experimental group that use (e-learning) and the average score of female students of the control group that use (traditional learning) in the post-application of the achievement test and the observation card for scientific research skills in favor of the experimental group, The researcher recommended it through the study the need to take advantage of e-learning to teach various performance concepts and skills for high school female students.

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