The effect of using creative thinking skills on the development of reading comprehension of female tenth grade students in southern al-Mazar directorate of education

Other Title(s)

أثر استخدام مهارات التفكير الإبداعي في تطوير الاستيعاب القرائي لدى طالبات الصف العاشر الأساسي في مديرية تربية المزار الجنوبي

Dissertant

al-Eidie, Rawdah Ahmad

Thesis advisor

al-Khatayibah, Majid Muhammad

University

Mutah University

Faculty

Faculty of Educational Sciences

Department

Department of Curricula and Instruction

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2010

English Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the effect of using creative thinking skills (fluency, flexibility, originality) on the development of reading comprehension of female tenth grade students in Southern AL-Mazar Directorate of Education.

It examined the effect of the creative thinking skills on tenth grade students' linguistic levels in English Language (high intermediate, low) through answering the following questions : 1- Is there a statistical significant effect of using creative thinking skills on the development of reading comprehension of tenth grade students? 2- Is there any statistical significant effect of using creative thinking skills on the tenth grade students' linguistic levels (high, intermediate and low) in reading comprehension? The sample of the study consisted of (53) female tenth grade students from Al- Hussaineih Secondary School for Girls were assigned randomly into two groups; an experimental group of (26) students and a control group of (27) students.

To achieve the purpose of the study, a reading comprehension test, which was assessed for validity and reliability, was designed as a pre and posttest.

A t-test was conducted to test the equivalence of the two groups and analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the significance of the difference between the post-test means for both groups and to test the significance of the difference between the three levels (high, intermediate, low), also Schaffer for multiple comparisons was used.

The findings of the study were as follows : 1- There was a statistically significant effect (α ≤ 0.05) for using creative thinking skills (fluency, flexibility, originality) on the development of the students' reading comprehension 2- There was a statistically significant effect of using creative thinking skills (fluency, flexibility, originality) on the students' linguistic levels (high, intermediate, low) in reading comprehension.

According to these findings, it is recommended that teachers and educators should use creative thinking skills as a method of teaching to develop reading comprehension.

Also it is recommended that researchers should investigate the effect of using creative thinking skills on other skills of English Language especially the writing skill.

Main Subjects

Educational Sciences

Topics

• Education
• Learning
• Creative thinking
• Reading
• Jordan
• Karak
• English language

No. of Pages

72

Table of Contents

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-304910