The Effects of the Overlapping-Waves Strategy on Attaining the Knowledge of Criminal Law and Critical Thinking Skills for the Students of Faculty of Law

Abstract

       The research aims to identify the effects of the overlapping-waves strategy on attaining the knowledge of criminal law and critical thinking skills for the students of faculty of Law. The researcher choses the faculty of law of the Iraqi university as the study group. A total number of 95 students were enrolled in the study. The first students group (Class -A students) were used as the experimental group and they were taught by using the overlapping-waves strategy . The second group (Class-B students) were used as the control group and they were taught by using the usual method. The researcher identified the external confounding factors, modified the study design by eliminating these factors from both groups and by balancing the groups against a pre-attainment test and a critical thinking test. The researcher prepared the experimental study plans, the attainment test and the distant critical thinking test. The researcher used the appropriate statistical means to complete his study. The results showed a better performance in both knowledge attainment and critical thinking in the experimental students group (Class -A students) who were taught by using the overlapping-waves strategy compared to the control student group who were taught by using the usual standard method.