Author name:
محمد علي ذياب الشمري
Supervisor name:
سهيلة عبد الرضا عسكر
Abstract:
في ظل الظروف المعاصرة وما يشهده العالم من تغيير تكنولوجي واقتصادي واجتماعي سريع، فان هذا كله يفرض مزيدا من الازمات والمشكلات الحياتية والاكاديمية المالوفة او غير المالوفة منها ما يقع على الطالب مما يجعله عرضة للتوتر وعدم الاتزان والشعور بالعجز وضعف ال | In light of contemporary circumstances and what the world is witnessing the fast technological economic and social change , and all this imposes further crises and academic familiar or unfamiliar problems of life and, including what is on the student, making him vulnerable to tension and lack of poise and a sense of helplessness and lack of concentration and attention, and the low level of motivation and activity, resulting in to the low level of productivity, both in the scientific aspect or practical, and more problems, so it was necessary to face the problems and address them solution 0 And this requires the learner to be has a high degree of skills and abilities to solve problems as well as metacognition and appropriate cognitive style to assist and qualify him to solve the problems faced in his scientific and practical life. And this has been confirmed by several studies, such as Swanson (Swanson,1990) (Swanson 1992) studies as confirmed that the levels of knowledge of knowledge of high relate to the best performance in problems solving and Armbruster 1989)) has found that the knowledge of Mtacognitionplays several cognitive roles in creative problem - solving.And according to this data, many different methods to develop useful skills in problem solving and training, mainly based to metacognitive knowledge (Antoetti Ignazi & Perejo 2000). The acquisition metacognition has an active and important role in the educational process, it can reduce the difficulties faced by learners during their understanding of the subjects. And there are several results drawn from the acquisition of these skills, which help learners to regulate behavior and self - awareness through self - monitored for themselves during the learning processes, and create the opportunity to choose between learning strategies that ensure access to the full understanding and reused in other tasks (Al - hilawani, 2000 : 41). There are a many students today are not able to use the skills learned metacognition as they may not know any of the skills that will help them to learn and retrieval of long - term memory and affect the intellectual attainment and perhaps they don't aware to use (Schunk, 2000 : 53). As if these students do not spend enough time to study outside the classroom, and when trying to study, they are studying roughly and ineffectively, and this clearly means that they lack metacognition (Kovach, 2000 : 13). The style (reflection - impulse)is one of styles that took a share of the studies and scientific researches, as most of them confirmed the effectiveness of this method in interaction and information handling process, the credit for the confirmation of this method and framed theoretical and practical due to the psychologist Kagan, as he indicated that it is the basis for discrimination between individuals in the speed of their response to life situations. The reflective individuals tend to take the time to submit their responses, and they take a longer time to examine the alternatives available ,while the impulsive individuals tend to issuance of the first response intervenes on their minds, and this response is often incorrect and frequently admit their mistakes (Kagan, 1971 : 24 - 28). Cognitive styles in their concept are not limited to the cognitive aspect of personal information only, but so far as it is an important indicator to look at personal look Faculty included in all its dimensions. The cognitive styles are important criterion in the classification of individuals , but not rated bilaterally extreme, it is a rating connected, begins dimension (reflection, for example) and ends with another dimension (impulse) (Ibrahim, 2010 : 621). The basic goal of any knowledge is to help human in overcoming the problems that may be encountered while waging the midst of this life, and then the function of the various sciences is helping him to discover these problems, and provide ways to overcome them all kinds (Al - 'Aser 2000 : 78). After informed researcher on the concept of distinct students, he concluded that the distinct student is who passes the ministerial exams at the primary level at a rate of more than (90%), and is subject to the tests carried out by the ministry (the Authority supervising the schools of distincts affiliated to the General Directorate for Public Education, and include : intelligence tests (IQ), and a test of the material (Arabic,and Enlish Language, Mathematics andSciences).As required from distinct student to study the French language added to the overall average of 16% of marks.And in light of these facts , the objectives of the research were formulated as follow : - Identifying1 - The problem solving for the distinct students of secondary schools.2 - The metacognition for the distinct students of secondary schools.3 - The cognitive style (impulsivity - reflection) for the distinct students of secondary schools.4 - Difference in problem solving according to the variable of gender (male - female).5 - Difference in metacognition according to the variable of gender (male - female).6 - Difference in cognitive style (impulsivity - reflection) according to the variable of gender (male - female).7 - The relation between the (problem solving and metacognition), [problem solving and cognitive style (impulsivity - reflection) ], [metacognition and cognitive style (impulsivity - reflection)].8 - Identifying the extent to which the independent variables contribution(metacognition and cognitive style (impulsivity - reflection)] in the affiliated variable (problem solving).And to achieve the research goals , there must be three scales : the first is problem solving test which was prepared by (Al - Kubaisy,1989) according to Gilford theory, and modified by (Khaleel, 2009), then the researcher adopted it. The second is metacognition scale which was prepared by (Schraw & Dennison, 1994), so the researcher translated with assistance of experts in English language to make it suitable with the Iraqi environment and especially the research sample , the third is scale of cognitive style(impulsivity - reflection]which the researcher prepared according to Kagan theory. And the researcher extracted the face validity by displaying to a number of experts and arbitrators in educational and psychological sciences, and construction validity via extracting the distinguished power of its items and extracting relation of item degree with total degree of the criterion and relation of item degree with level degree affiliated to it and extracting matrix of correlations among each level of it and the total score of the criterion mainly overall scale , as has been extracted stability of each tool through re - testing, and alpha Cronbach. After collecting the data were processed using statistical appropriate methods, including : samples t - test (t - test) for one sample and two independent samples, Pearson correlation coefficient (Coefficien (Pearson, and multiple regression analysis (Multiple Regression Analysis)., And after applying the criterion and the test on individuals of the sample and analyzing data statically, the researcher has reached to the following results according to the research objectives : • All the current members of the research sample have the ability of solve problem solving. • All the members of the current research sample have metacognition. • All the members of the current research sample have the reflective cognitive style. • The difference between the average male and female statistically significant, in favor of the average scores of females, which means that female high school students for distincts have the problem solving more than males. • There is no statistically significant difference between the average of male and female in metacognition. • There is no statistically significant difference between the average of male and female in the cognitive style (Impulsivity - Reflection). • All the links are significant positive , meaning that there is a direct correlation between the three variables of the current search. • That the value of the relative contribution of the independent variable metacognition in the dependent variable (problem solving) amounted to (.07960), a value statistically significant, while the value of the relative contribution of the variable cognitive style (Impulsivity - Reflection) in the dependent variable (problem solving) the amount (0.172 ), a statistically significant value as well. At the same time, this result indicates that there are other variables related to the dependent variable (solve problems) not covered by the current research, may be these variables, such as : the psychological situation and mood of the student, and his talent and inclinations and academic ambition and motivation, and economic status. These results have been interpreted according to the theory adopted for each tool of research tools. The researcher reached a number of recommendations and proposals
