The effect of the PECS strategy on the achievement of students of the College of Basic Education in the subject of practical parasites and their analytical thinking

Abstract

The research aims to identify the effect of the PECS strategy (p.e.c.s) on the achievement of students of the College of Basic Education in the subject of practical parasites and their analytical thinking, and in light of the aim of the research, the researcher derived the following two zero hypotheses:

1- There is no statistically significant difference at the level of significance (0.05) between the average scores of the experimental group students who studied the practical parasites according to the PECS strategy and the average scores of the control group students who studied the same material in the usual way in the achievement test prepared for the purposes of this search.

2- There is no statistically significant difference at the level of significance (0.05) between the average scores of the experimental group students who studied the practical parasites according to the PECS strategy and the average scores of the control group students who studied the same material in the usual way in the analytical thinking test. Intended for the purposes of this research.

   The researcher adopted the partial-controlled experimental design of the experimental and control groups with the post-test of academic achievement and the analytical thinking of the two research groups (experimental and control), and the research community represents students of the third stage of the Science Department / Life Sciences Branch in the College of Basic Education / Al-Mustansiriya University, Wasit University and Diyala University for the year Academic (2020-2021), The number of its members reached (281) male and female students, and a representative sample of the research was chosen from the community of students of the third stage / Department of Science / Branch of Life Sciences / College of Basic Education / Al-Mustansiriya University of (83) students and distributed in three classrooms (A, B, C And by random assignment, the two halls (A and B) were chosen as the two main research groups, as division (A) was randomly selected to be the experimental group and (B) a control group, where the number of sample members reached (60) male and female students, and the parity process was conducted between members of the two groups in variables ( Chronological age, Parents' academic achievement, previous microbiology test, microbiology scores for the second semester of the previous year, Raven's intelligence test), and the researcher prepared two research tools, as the first consisted of an achievement test in the practical parasites subject of the multiple choice type consisting of (40) a paragraph, As for the second tool, it was represented by the analytical thinking test, and it may consist of (30) items, and the results showed a statistically significant difference at the level of significance (0.05) for the two research groups (experimental and control) in favor of the experimental group that was studied according to the PECS strategy in the test post achievement and analytical thinking test.