THE EFFECT OF THE STRATEGY OF THE GUIDED IMAGERY STRATEGY IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SECOND-GRADE STUDENTS IN SCIENCE

Abstract

The current research aims to identify "the effect  of the strategy of Guided imagery on the achievement of second-grade students in science ". To achieve the goal of the research, the researcher developed one zero hypothesis that was tested. The researcher chose the experimental design with two symbiotic groups (an experimental group, and a control group), to suit it for the purposes of the research. The researcher intentionally chose the sample from the secondary school (Amer Abdullah school ) of the Directorate General of Nineveh Education to be a field for the implementation of the experiment. The researcher's number of students in the research sample was (44) students with a reality of (22) students in each of the two groups. The researcher rewarded the students of the two groups statistically using a square K and the second test in the following variables: (academic achievement in the science subject for the second grade is average  for the academic year (2021-2022). After the researcher determined the educational material, he sought to formulate behavioral goals for the topics. The number of (126) was behavioral goals, and he prepared the teaching plans for both groups.

In order to achieve the goal of the research and test its hypothesis, the researcher was asked to prepare an achievement test, which in its final form consists of ( 40 ) paragraphs in the form of multiple selection, mating and integration test (continuation). The researcher extracted his difficulty coefficient and the discriminatory strength of his paragraphs, and his honesty and stability, which reached ( 0.811 ), was confirmed.

The results were as follows :

1- The existence of statistically significant teams in the post-test (achievement) for the experimental and control groups and in favor of the experimental group, thus rejecting the zero hypothesis and accepting the alternative hypothesis.

The researcher made a number of recommendations, including:

1- Include in the curricula of teaching methods in faculties of education, basic education colleges and teachers' institutes some modern teaching methods, including Guided imagery and achievement .

Future research has been proposed, including:

1- Conducting a comparative study of the strategy of Guided imagery and other strategies on the same variables of the current study.