فاعلية توظيف استراتيجية خرائط التفكير المحوسبة في تنمية مهارات التفكير المكاني و التحصيل المعرفي في مقرر الدراسات الاجتماعية و الوطنية لدى طالبات المستوى الثاني الثانوي في مدينة مكة المكرمة

الملخص EN

The present study was designed to examine the effectiveness of computerized thinking maps Strategy in the development of spatial thinking skills, and academic achievement in the social and national studies course among the second level female students in the secondary stage in Makkah city.

To achieve this, The study followed a quasi-experimental methodology, research instruments were developed after making sure of their validity & reliability.

These instruments consisted of an achievement test & a spatial thinking skills scale.

sixty female students participated in this study.

They were divided into two groups: the Study group (n=30) was taught through computerized thinking maps, and the Comparison group(n=30) was taught through normal method The findings of the study revealed that the subjects of the study in the Study group scored the highest means in cognitive achievement, and acquiring spatial thinking skills.

In parallel, the subjects of the Comparison groupscored the lowest means.

Thus, statistically significant differences were found between the two groups.

These differences were in favour of the Study group.

Moreover, the findings of the study showed that there is statistically significant strong positive correlation at the significance level of (α=0.05) between the amount of growth in spatial thinking and the amount of growth in academic achievement,.

Based on these findings, it was recommended that the Saudi Ministry of Education should train teachers to adopt computerized thinking maps in Social and National Studies teaching and learning