The Impact of an Educational Program Based on Van Hill's Model in the Development of Deductive Thinking among Students in the Fifth Literary Grade in Geography and Their Attitude towards It

Abstract

The present research aimed to identify the effect of the Van Hill model on the development of the reasoning skills of the fifth grade literary students in geography. To achieve the objective of the research, four null hypotheses were formulated. The research sample was determined by the students of the fifth grade of literary in the Directorate General of Education of Salah al-Din - Department of Science Education, in the science secondary for boys and Al-Qabas secondary for boys for the subjects of the first semester of the book scheduled for the academic year (2018 - 2019), and was selected experimental design for the two equal groups with pre-test The study sample included (63) students who were intentionally selected from the research community and were divided into two groups: (1) experimental (32) students studied in accordance with the model Van Hill, and (second) officer (31) students studied according to Normal way.

the researcher prepared a test to measure the deductive thinking by (24) paragraph, included skills ( Readers of the elicitation conclusion) by (8) paragraphs of each skill. After verifying the validity of the virtual test and the content, it was extracted from both the discriminatory power of the paragraphs as well as finding the stability of the test by the two methods of re-testing, and the method of mid-division where the stability was found using the Pearson correlation coefficient, where the coefficient of stability (0.88)