Executive functions skills and their relationship to generative thinking among science teachers at the primary stage

Abstract

The aim of the riesearch is to idientify (executive functions skills of primary school science teachers and their relationship to their generative thinking. The research was limited to primary school teachers in the Geneiral Directiorate of Education in Qadisiyah Governorate, and for the academic year 2020-2021 and adopted the descriptive correlative research method, and the sample size of the research was (100) Science teacher for the primary stage, they were chosen randomly.

  The researciher preipared two tools to achieive the objectives of the reiseairch, the first of which is the executive functions skills test, whicjh in its final fojrm coinsisted of (8) paragroaphs, including (5) objective paragraphs and (3) essay paragraphs, according to the classification of (Al-Barqi, 2017), and the apparent validity was verifjied. The construction of the test was validated, and the values ​​of the difficulty and discrimination coefficients were calculated for the test items, as well as calculating the effectiveness of the alternatives for the objective test items, and calculating the value of the test stability coefficient using the Cronbach alpha coefficient, whose value amounted to (0.86). And the second tool, the researcher adopted the generative thinking test of (Al-Awadi, 2020) codified in his study, and the paragraphs were divided into four main skills that were classified (Jarwan, 2010) into (making hypotheses and finding assumptions - prediction - fluency - flexibility), and calculating the value of the stability coefficient. The test using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, whose value was (0.85).  ).

The two search tools were appilied in the secoind semeister of the yiear 2020-2021, and the sjtatistical analysis and pjrocessing of the jata was carried ojut using Microsoft Excel and the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program. The t-test equation for one sampjle and the Pearson correlation coefficient equation were used, and thejk following kresults were reached:

Elementary science teachers possess a high level of executive function skills .1

 . 2.The science teachers of the primary stage possess a high level of generative thinking.

 . 3.There is a direct relationship between executive functions skills and generative thinking.

Relying on the results that have been reached, the resjearcher made a nuimber of recommejndations, including training science teachers with a training program that includes the skills they have, which will reflect positively on their students