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The impact of the use of thinking maps for the development of achievement and some visual thinking skills among students of the third year specialization of Art Education, Faculty of Specific Education. The study depended on the Experimental approach using sing experimental design with a tribal dimensional experimental and control groups. On applying research tools; including an achievement test and visual thinking skills test to determine in each of the achievement and some visual thinking skills among students In the design course, the research found that there were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of students in the experimental group and control group in each of the achievement and some visual thinking skills for the experimental group, As well as there were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of students in the experimental group between both pre and post applications for the post in each of the achievement and some visual thinking skills. The study had a number of recommendations. One of them is including thinking maps as a teaching strategy in teacher preparation programs at faculties of qualitative education and also holding workshops to train teachers on this strategy. (Published abstract)