أثر اختلاف أسلوب عرض المعلومات (شعاعي، هرمي)‎ في الخرائط الذهنية الإلكترونية على تنمية مهارات التفكير البصري لمادة العلوم لدى طالبات المرحلة المتوسطة

Abstract EN

This study aimed to measure the impact of different method of displaying information (radial, hierarchical) in electronic mind maps on developing visual thinking skills for science subject among middle school students.

the study followed the quasi-experimental approach, and to achieve the objectives of the study, a test of visual thinking skills was used as a study tool.

the study was applied to a sample of the second intermediate grade from the sixth intermediate school in al-Baday’ governorate, al-Qassim region, kingdom of Saudi Arabia, distributed into two experimental groups, each group consisting of (24) female students.

the first group was taught using radial mind maps, while the second group was taught using hierarchical mind maps.

the results showed that there were statistically significant differences in the visual thinking skills test for the first experimental group in favor of the dimensional application with a medium effect size, and statistically significant differences for the second experimental group in favor of the dimensional application with a large effect size, and there were no statistically significant differences between the mean scores female students of the two experimental groups in the dimensional measurement to test visual thinking skills.

the study recommended paying attention to developing visual thinking skills when planning science subject.