فاعلية تدريس الأحياء باستخدام خرائط التفكير في التحصيل و تنمية مهارات ما وراء المعرفة لدى طالبات الصف الأول الثانوي

Abstract EN

This research aimed at identifying the effectiveness of teaching biology using thinking maps in achievement and development of metacognition skills of the first secondary female students, To achieve this goal, The descriptive-analytical and the experimental approach were utilized in this research.

The pretest-posttest control group design was also adopted, The researcher prepared a science achievement test and a metacognition skills scale for randomly sample, which consisted of (62) first year Secondary female students at the fourteenth Secondary school for girls at Makkah, at Makkah Educational Directorate, It was divided in to two groups: An experimental group (32) student studied the specified unit "Echinoderms and invertebrate cordatum" using thinking maps, while the control group (30) student studied the same unit using the traditional method, At the end of the experiment two post tools (achievement test and metacognition skills scale) were applied for both groups and that was during the second semester of academic year 1431/1432 H.

The results of the study revealed that there were statistically significant differences at level (0.05) between mean scores of the experimental and the control group subjects favouring the experimental group in the post-test of the achievement and metacognition skills.

The results also showed that teaching biology using thinking maps is educationally effective in achievement and development of metacognition skills of the first year Secondary students, In light of the research results, the researcher made some recommendations and suggestions