Effect of Biology Teaching on Scientific Activities and Computer Simulation in Predictive Thinking among Ninth Grade Students in Amman Governorate, Jordan

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of biology teaching on scientific activities and computer simulation in predictive thinking among the ninth grade students in Jordan. The study was applied to 66 of the ninth grade students in the 2014 school year. They were divided into two experimental groups, one studied by scientific activities and the other studied by computer simulation. A measure of predictive thinking (test) has been constructed that includes (20) paragraph of the type of multiple choice. The validity of the instrument was confirmed by the arbitrators and their stability was in the Kronbach-Alpha method, which ranged from (0.87-0.95). The results of the study showed statistically significant differences at the mean level (α = 0.05); between the mean scores of the two experimental groups on the predictive reasoning scale in favor of the group studied using scientific activities, which means the advantage of scientific activities on computer simulation in improving predictive thinking.