The Effectiveness of the Double Thinking Strategy in Teaching the Kingdom's Geography Course to Develop Visual Thinking Skills and the Attitude Towards it Among Female Students of Sciences and Arts College, Qassim University

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Curricula and Teaching Methods of Geography, Faculty of Education, Al-Azhar University, Cairo

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The study aimed to identify the effectiveness of the strategy of "double thinking" in teaching the Kingdom's geography course to develop visual thinking skills and the attitude towards it among female students of Sciences and Arts College, Qassim University. To achieve this goal, the researcher prepared a list of visual thinking skills, which are: (visual reading, visual discrimination, realizing spatial relationships, interpretation of ambiguity, shape analysis), a guide for the teacher, worksheets for students, a test in visual thinking skills, and a scale for measuring students' attitudes towards strategy. A sample of (46) female students enrolled in the course were divided into two groups; a control and an experimental. The application was in the second semester of the academic year 2021-2022 AD. The results indicated that there were statistically significant differences at the level of (0.05) between the scores means of the students of the experimental group who studied using the " double thinking" strategy, and the scores means of the students of the control group who studied using the usual method, in both the visual thinking skills test and the attitude scale towards strategy in favor of the experimental group. In light of these results, the study presented a set of recommendations and proposals.

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