The Effect of the place mat Strategy in the collection of geographical material and the development of deductive thinking among the average first-grade students skills

Abstract

   The present research aims at identifying the effect of the mat place a strategy to collect geographical material and the development of deductive thinking among the average first-grade students the skills of ID, the study sample consisted of (72) students distributed into two groups by 35 students in the experimental group which studied the use of mat strategic location and ( 37) students in the control group who studied the same material in the traditional manner, rewarded researcher between the two sets of search variables (prior knowledge, IQ test, chronological age, test inferential thinking) promising researcher Uday achievement test consisting of (50) ) Items of multiple choice and make sure his sincerity and persistence and characteristics psychometric and adopted Ready thinking deductive prepared Scale (Obeidi, 2010), and used statistical methods (Altaia test for two independent samples, the difficulty factor, discrimination coefficient, Pearson correlation coefficient, Spearman correlation - coefficient Brown), the study found to outweigh the experimental group students on the control group students in achievement test and test deductive reasoning.