Effectiveness of Smith's strategy in the achievement of fourt-grade female students in Biology and their thinking outside the box

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the effectiveness of Smith's strategy in the thinking outside the box of fourth-grade female students in Biology. The research sample included two groups, one of them is the experimental group with (34) female students and the control group with (34) female students too. The researchers chose Al-Fajr High School for Girls affiliated to the General Directorate of Education in Dhi Qar / Qalat Sukkar Education Department in Dhi Qar Governorate / Al-Fajr City intentionally from the research community. As the researchers adopted the experimental research as a method to conduct their research, which includes an independent variable (Smith's strategy) and a dependent variable (the thinking outside the box), the researchers chose the experimental design to control the research variables. Before starting the application of the experiment, parity was conducted between the two research groups to obtain accurate results with the following variables (the chronological age of the female students in months, the academic achievement of the fathers, the academic achievement of the mothers, the previous information test, the Otis-Lignon intelligence test, the grades of the first semester in Biology).