Employing the reciprocal teaching strategy in teaching science and its impact on the achievement of second-grade intermediate students and development their health awareness

Abstract

Current search goal is to identify “Employing the reciprocal teaching strategy in teaching science and its impact on the achievement of second-grade intermediate students and development their health awareness”. The research was limited on intermediate second grade female students in the center of Nineveh governorate for the academic year 2019-2020. The researcher choose experimental design which depend on two equal groups, the sample of research has formed of (72) female student they were distributed on two groups the first experimental includes (37) female student have studied by using reciprocal teaching and the second control includes (35) female student have studied by the usual way, the researcher prepared a test achievement in science formed frome (30) paragraph, kind of multiple choice for the four chapters of the second intermediate grade science textbook. And to measure the health awareness development among female students, the researcher adopted a scale (Abdullatif,2016) formed from (32) paragraph three-way alternatives. And the researcher verified the validity and reliability of the two tests, and the two scales are ready for application on the two groups female students, the statistical results showed the superiority of the experimental group female students in achievement and in developing health awareness.