Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
Year : 2019, Volume : 10, Issue : 1
First page : ( 745) Last page : ( 750)
Print ISSN : 0976-0245. Online ISSN : 0976-5506.
Article DOI : 10.5958/0976-5506.2019.00147.5

The Impact of the “Cognitive Conflict” Strategy in Correcting the Geographical Misconceptions of Second Intermediate Students

Abuhillail Karem Obyes*

College of Education for Humanities, Al-Muthanna University, Iraq

*Corresponding author: Karem Obyes Abuhillail. College of Education for Humanities, Al-Muthanna University, Iraq.

Online published on 21 February, 2019.

Abstract

The current research aims to identify The Impact of the “Cognitive Conflict” Strategy in Correcting the Geographical Misconceptions of second intermediate students In order to achieve the research objective: -The following hypothesis was formulated: There are no statistically significant differences at (0.05) between the average scores of the experimental group who study the geography according to the (Cognitive Conflict Strategy), and the average score of students in the normal group who study the same subject in the usual way in correcting misconceptions of concepts. The researcher identified the article with the concepts of a geography book of the Arab world to be taught in Iraq for the academic year (2018–2019) of second intermediate students, in light of the content of this book, the researcher identified the geographical concepts (correct and false through a test prepared for this), a number of model teaching plans were prepared for both groups, the research tool was a post-test consisting of (35) paragraphs of the type of multi-test measures the three processes to form the concept and acquisition and then was determined the characteristics of the Psychometric after which the researcher used a number of statistical tools to analyze the results.

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Keywords

Strategy, cognitive conflict, correction, concepts, geography.

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