Journal of Al-qadisiya in arts and educational sciense

Abstract

The aim of the present research is to
investigate . The Effectiveness of
Teaching by Maps in Enhancing The
Creative Thinking of First Intermediate
Pupils' . the researcher made an
experiment which lasted for two
months. She has chosen Al-Gad Al-
Mushriq Intermediate Girl School
deliberately for applying the
experiment . The research sample
consisted of (46) pupils, (23) pupils
for each group, the two groups were
equated in variables (temporal age,
intelligence mid-year examinations
marks, pre-creative-thinking test) for
both research samples and the
intervening alternatives were set . The
experiment was applied in the second
semester of the year (2010-2011) and
the researcher herself taught the two
groups of the experiment. After
finishing up the experiment, the
results were analyzed statistically by
using T-test for two independent
groups groups . The results have
shown the superiority of pupils
performance of the experimental
group on the pupils of the control
group for both, the achievement test
and the creative-thinking test.