The effectiveness of teaching with the 5WS & 1H strategy in the collection of science and thinking of secondary students in the second grade

Abstract

Abstract

The aim of the research was to find out the effectiveness of teaching with the 5WS & 1H strategy in the achievement of the science and thinking of secondary students in the second grade. To achieve the research objective, the following two hypotheses were formulated:

1. There is no statistically significant difference at the level of significance (0.05) between the average grade of the students of the experimental group studied according to 5WS & 1H strategy and the average score of the control group students who studied the traditional method in the achievement test in science.
2. There was no statistically significant difference at the mean level (0.05) among the average scores of the experimental group studied in accordance with the 5WS & 1H strategy and the average scores of the control group students studied in the traditional way in the ascending thinking scale.

The researcher used the experimental design with partial adjustment for two equal groups. According to this design, the researcher chose (Hamorabi medium for boys) to be the research society, one of the governmental day schools affiliated to the Directorate General of Qadisiya Education for the academic year 2018-2019. In variables: temporal age, intelligence, previous biological information, and the measure of thinking. The teaching material was determined in the last three units of the science book for the second intermediate grade. The behavioral objectives of these chapters were formulated with the teaching plans by (24) teaching plans for each group.

The researcher prepared two tools: the first tool (the achievement test), which is the final form of (40) thematic paragraphs of the type (multiple choice) with the four alternatives, and the second tool (the measure of reflection), which is the final version of (36) The three are divided into three components, after extracting their kilometric properties. The experiment was applied at the end of the first semester. The results showed:

1. The experimental group studied in accordance with the 5WS & 1H strategy is superior to the control group studied in the traditional way of collecting science.
2. The experimental group studied in accordance with the 5WS & 1H strategy is superior to the control group studied in the traditional way in the ascending thinking scale.

     In the light of the results of the research, the researcher recommended using this strategy in teaching science. He suggested conducting other studies of different stages and subjects to identify the effectiveness of 5WS & 1H strategy in other dependent variables such as (creative problem solving skills, scientific trends, understanding the nature of science and its processes).