The Psychological Effectiveness of the Hands down Approach on the Achievement of Second Grade Female Students in the Subject of Science

Abstract

         Recent studies focus on the need for science education to shift to active and investigative learning, and among the strategies that emphasize the importance of student participation in the lesson is the Hands down strategy . This approach focuses on actively engaging students in the learning process, rather than traditional methods. The study problem was identified in the low level of second grade female students students in science, due to the traditional teaching methods. The researcher adopted an Hands down strategy  to stimulate interest in scientific assets and achievement  among middle second grade female students, and the researcher used research materials: the school curriculum consisting of the curriculum of the science subject for the second grade, the average of two study units and by four chapters The first, pictures and wall paintings. The study sample consisted of( 67) female students in the second intermediate grade, if the researcher used the experimental approach,  as the students were divided into two experimental and control groups and  applied the research experiment using the Hands down strategy . The positive results showed the students' interaction with the lesson and the emergence of self-motivation, interaction and collaborative participation between the students and between the students and their teacher . This strategy can be relied upon to stimulate active learning in scientific curricula. A research experiment was conducted to measure the effect of using the Hands down strategy  in transferring some scientific concepts to a sample of students. The quota sample was divided into two groups, as 34 students were allocated to the experimental group and 33 students to the control group, as the results of the control group showed non-response to the test vocabulary, poor sensory perception, and overlap in the scientific concepts of science. After applying the same test to the experimental group, this group showed different results than the control group. This is due to the use of Hands down strategy  in the implementation of scientific activities, as the participants responded better to the lesson and interaction with colleagues, and self-motivation and deductive and exploratory thinking emerged. The experimental group also showed remarkable mental activity in linking the scientific concepts of the relevant scientific material, which is extracurricular and related to daily real life. Furthermore, the participants in the pilot group better researched phenomena not presented in the methodological information, and supplemented these findings with statistics and analysis, as well as citing a list of sources and references.