The Effectiveness of an Educational Program in Mathematics Based on Intellectual Intelligence in Improving the Critical Thinking of Blind Students in Grade Ten Basic in Amman

Abstract

The present study aimed to identify the effectiveness of an educational program in mathematics based on Intellectual Intelligence in improving the Critical Thinking of blind students in the Grade Ten Basic in Amman. The study sample consisted of (24) male and female students who were in the 10th grade The Royal Academy of the Blind, in year 2017/2018, was randomly divided into two groups: one of which consisted of 12 male and female students and the other 12 male and female students. To achieve the objective of the study, an educational program based on Intellectual Intelligence, and the Critical Thinking test was developed by Watson and Galser and applied to the experimental group. The results revealed a statistically significant difference between the scores of the experimental and control groups. This indicates that the teaching of mathematics using a program based on intellectual intelligence has had an impact on improving the critical thinking of students of the Blind Students. and show that there is no statistically significant difference between male and female. There is no statistically significant difference between the responses of the experimental and control groups due to the interaction of the program based on intellectual intelligence with the gender of the blind student.