The effectiveness of using Mind Maps Strategy of Teaching Science on the Achievement and developmen
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The effectiveness of using Mind Maps Strategy of Teaching Science on the Achievement and development of Basic Science Processes
for Third-Grade Students in the Sultanate of Oman
Awatif Al-Qasimi
Mu'tah University, 2010
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of using Mind Maps Strategy of teaching science on the achievement and development of science processes for third-grade students in the Sultanate of Oman. The sample consisted of (103) students enrolled at Manarat Al-Elm Basic Education school (C1) in North Batinah Region. The sample was divided into two groups: an experimental group included (52) students taught by using Mind Maps Strategy and a control group included (51) students taught by the usual conventional method. To answer the question's study, a teacher manual and a student's guidebook are prepared and two instruments are built, they are: an achievement test according to low cognitive Bloom's levels (knowledge, comprehension, application), and a basic science processes test. A panel of judges established the validity of both instruments. Reliability of the each instrument was assessed using the Cronbach alpha coefficient. Their reliability were found (0.83) and (0.85) respectively.
The findings showed that there is no statistically significant differences at significance level (α≤0.05) between the students in the experimental group and control group in the totally post achievement test and its different cognitive levels. And also there is no statistically significant differences at significance level (α≤0.05) between the mean degrees of students in the experimental group and control group in the totally post basic science processes test and skills of: (observation, classification, communication, measurement, prediction, inference, induction, deduction, the use of numbers), while there have been found statistically significant differences at significance level (α≤0.05) between the mean degrees of students in the experimental group and control group in the use of spatial relationships and time skill for the experimental group students. Also there has been found amount of middle influence size for the effectiveness of using a Mind Maps Strategy in achievement and the development of basic science processes among the experimental group students.
Based of the findings, the study recommended holding training workshops for science teachers; to identify the features educational of mind maps and how to employ and apply them in science teaching, also recommended the need for comparative studies between the teaching of mind maps strategy and other strategies to investigate the effectiveness on the achievement and development of science processes.