The Effectiveness of Wheatley Model in Developing Reading Skills among First Intermedate Female Students in Subject of Reading

Abstract

     The current research aims at (The Effectiveness of Wheatley Model in Developing Reading Skills among First Intermedate Female Students in Subject of Reading). To achieve the aims of the research, the researcher adopted the experimental design and the pre-test and post-test of two experimental and control groups. The current research was limited to one of the secondary schools in the District of Baqubah (Al-Athra Secondary School). The researcher randomly selected it to conduct the experiment and in the same way the researcher chose section (A) to represent the experimental group that studied the subject of reading according to Wheatley Model and section (B) to represent the control group that studied subject of reading in the normal way. The research sample amounted to (56) female students randomly distributed to two groups about (28) female students in each group. The researcher was equaled between the two groups in some variables (intelligence; chronological age of the female students; grades of the subject of Arabic language for the previous academic year; degrees of language ability; pre-test scores) The researcher identified the topics of reading that will be studied during the experiment, formulated behavioral goals, and prepared teaching plans to measure the extent to which the reading skills of the students of the two research groups are developed. The researcher prepared a test for this purpose that she applied before and after the experiment. In order to analyze the research data, the appropriate statistical means were used for it, and after collecting the data statistically, the researcher reached the following: The existence of a statistically significant difference at the level of (0.05) between the average scores of the students of the experimental group and the average scores of the control group and in the favour of the experimental group in the development of reading skills in subject of reading. In the light of the result of the research, the researcher concluded: that teaching using the Whitley model has an impact on the development of reading skills of students better than teaching in the usual way. The researcher mentioned some recommendations, including: the need to adopt the Wheatley model in teaching subject of reading and suggested to conduct similar studies on other classrooms.