Construction and Standardization of a Scale for Assessing Cognitive Failures among Students of the College of Basic Education, University of Sumer
Abstract
The aim of the research is to identify the effectiveness of an educational program based on the theory of cognitive flexibility in developing flexible thinking among students of basic education colleges in the thinking education course. The researcher followed the experimental method with partial control. The research sample consisted of (80) male and female students from the first stage of the College of
Basic Education, University of Babylon, who were selected intentionally. This sample was divided randomly into two groups. Section (A) represented the experimental group, which included (40) male and female students, whose students were taught the thinking education course according to the educational program, and Section (B), which included (40) male and female students, to be the control group, whose students were taught the thinking education course in the traditional way. The researcher was keen to conduct equivalences before starting the experiment in a number of variables that are believed to affect the integrity of the experiment, namely (chronological age calculated in months, intelligence, previous average, gender), and to achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher prepared a flexible thinking scale consisting of (33) situations whose validity, stability and psychometric properties were verified, then the test was applied to the students and their data was collected and analyzed statistically using the statistical package (SPSS). The results showed the superiority of the experimental group that studied according to the program based on the theory of cognitive flexibility over the students of the control group that studied according to the traditional method in developing flexible thinking for the thinking education course, and in light of the results, the researcher came up with some appropriate conclusions, recommendations and proposals.
