Effect of self-inquiry strategy in providing fourth-scientific students with the physical concepts and developing their visual thinking

Abstract

The aim of the research is to identify the effect of using the self-inquiry strategy in providing fourth-scientific students with the physical concepts and developing their visual thinking.The research sample consists of (70) students from Abd Al-Rahman Al-Ghafiqi preparatory school in the city of Mosul, and it has been divided into two groups, the first experimental of (37) students studied according to the strategy of self-inquiry, and the second control of (33) students studied according to the traditional method . In order to achieve the goal of the research, the researcher prepared two multiple-choice tests: the first conceptual consisting of (30) items, and the second for visual thinking consisting of (20) items, and they were characterized by validity, reliability and psychometric properties. The researcher conducts the experiment for a whole semester, after which the two research instrument have been applied at the end of the second semester on (5-6 / 5/2019). The collected data has been analyzed statistically using the t-test for two independent samples and two correlated samples. The researcher concludes the following results:1- There is a statistically significant difference at the level of (0.05) between the means of the acquisition of the experimental group students and the control group students of the physical concepts in favor of the experimental group.2-There is a difference of statistical significance at the level (0.05) between the means of the growth of visual thinking among students of the experimental and control groups and in favor of the experimental group.3-There is a statistically significant difference at the level (0.05) between the mean scores of visual reasoning in the pre and post applications among the members of the experimental group and in favor of the post application. In the light of the results above, the researcher came up with a number of conclusions, recommendations and suggestions.