The Effect of Reciprocal Teaching Strategy on the Creative Thinking Skills

Abstract

Nowadays, With Rapid Changes occurring in all aspects of life, placing greater emphasis on education, learning, and the development of various skills has become essential for every individual in society to lead more accomplished life. Educators must employ a range of effective techniques and distinctive strategies to make the educational process more efficient and to achieve academic goals. One such strategy is the Reciprocal teaching strategy. The aim of this research was to determine the effect of this learning strategy on the development of Creative thinking skills in both the experimental and control groups. In the school subject Science for All, the researchers applied the Four steps of the Reciprocal strategy )summarizing, Questioning, clarifying, and predicting( with experimental group which students number are (23), and control group taught same topic by using Traditional method, the student number in control group are (22) students. After collecting and analyzing data from both groups –including age, first semester scores in Science for All, Intelligence score, and creative thinking it was found that the groups were balanced. After implementation of the Reciprocal strategy in the experimental group then comparing the results to the control group, the calculated T-values was found to be 3.53 which greater than the T-schedule which is equal to 2.021 at freedom 43. This indicates that the Reciprocal teaching strategy had a significant positive effect on enhancing the creative thinking skills of the students in the experimental group.