تطوير المختبرات المدرسية لتنمية التفكير العلمي لدى تلاميذ المرحلة الابتدائية في دولة الكويت

الملخص EN

This study aimed to identify the impact of developing school laboratories on the development of scientific thinking skills among primary school students in the state of Kuwait.

the sample of the study was divided into (50) students who represented the experimental group and studied by the school laboratory method, and (50) students who represented the control group and studied by the traditional method.

to answer the study questions, a test was prepared in four skills of scientific thinking, which are hypothesis, observation, experimentation and conclusion, consisting of (90) multiple-choice items.

the validity of the tools was verified by presenting them to a group of arbitrators, and their stability was calculated using the Cronbach alpha equation for internal consistency, as the test reliability coefficient was (0.87), which is considered an acceptable indicator to be used for the purposes of the study and there is difference (α ≤ 0.05) between the arithmetic means of the scores of the experimental group that were studied using the school laboratory in the test of scientific thinking skills, and the arithmetic means of the scores of the control group that were studied in the traditional way in favour of the experimental group.

in the light of the previous results, the study concluded with a number of recommendations calling for the necessity of using the school laboratory in teaching because of its positive impact on the acquisition and development of scientific thinking skills by primary school students.