أثر توظيف كتابة المجلات في رفع مستوى التفكير التأملي لدى طلبة كلية العلوم التربوية والآداب التابعة لوكالة الغوث الدولية
This study aimed to investigate the impact of employing journal writing on raising the levels of reflective thinking among the students of the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Arts\ UNRWA (FESA). Moreover, and how it is affected by student’ gender and study level .This study was carried out during the second semester of the academic year 2015/2016. The population of the study consisted of all the students of the classroom teacher major in the faculty of Educational Sciences and Arts/UNRWA (FESA). On the other hand, the sample of the study was purposively selected and included all the students studying the Natural Sciences and the Methods of Teaching Social Science courses. Moreover, the total number of the sample was 99 male and female students. For the purpose of achieving the goals of the study, the scale of the reflective thinking was used. It is worth mentioning that the scale was prepared by Kember, et al (2000) and consisted of 16 items. To ensure the validity of that scale, a group of experts in the field of education were requested to determine its content validity. In addition, Cronbach's Alpha measurement was utilized to assess its reliability. Moreover, the quasi-experimental method and the one group pretest -posttest design were used in this study. Finally, SPSS software was adopted to analyze the data adequately. Comparing the performance of the students involved in this study at the pre and post scales of reflective thinking showed that there are differences of statistical significance at (0.05) level. This indicates that utilizing journal writing is effective in raising the levels of reflective thinking. Moreover, the results proved that there was no link between journal writing and the two variables, gender and the study level of the students. Finally, the researchers also recommended the implementation of similar studies to study the impact of this method on other variables such as achievement and creative thinking. (Published abstract)