The Impact of the Strategy of Judgement of the Mind in Development of Inference Thinking among Fourth Grade Literary Students in the Material of History

Abstract

The research aims to know (The Impact of the Strategy of Judgement of the Mind in Development of Inference Thinking among Fourth Grade Literary Students in the Material of History). To verify the validity of the null hypotheses prepared by the researcher as he used a partially controlled experimental design (experimental group and control group) with pre and post-test. The research sample reached (60 students) about (30 students) in each group. The researcher equaled between the two groups concerning the following variables (educational achievement of both parents, chronicle age calculated by months, grades of the first course in History, intelligence testing, and pre-test of measuring the inference thinking). The research tool that has been used was the inference thinking scale prepared by Al-Khazraji (2007) which is consisting of (30) items and each item has three alternatives the validity of tool and stability was confirmed. The researcher used the (T-test) for two independent samples equal in number, and the (T-test) for two interconnected samples. The results of the research led to the superiority of the students of the experimental group over the students of the control group in the remote application of the inference thinking scale and the growth of inference thinking for the students of the experimental group on the favor of the control group. In the light of the results of the research, the researcher recommended the use of the strategy of judgment of thinking in teaching the subject of the history of Arab-Islamic civilization because of its impact on the developing of the inference thinking and the extension of this research and to be able of completing it. The researcher suggested to conduct other studies on the impact of the strategy of judgment of thinking on other variables such as creative thinking and meditative thinking