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This research aims at showing the effect of teaching abut ment strategy in developing beyond- cognitive thinking skills and decision-making to girl students of the first secondary school at History. As such, this research is limited to a group of first secondary stage girl students of governmental schools in Baquba and to the first three chapters of history in accordance to the syllabus of the ministry of education. The researcher had used the experimental programme of the partial control and the experimental and control groups in the pre-test and post –test as they suit this research and accomplish its aims. The researcher also measured some variables like intelligence test, lifetime of girl students measured in months, the academic background of students' fathers and mothers, decision-making test and the test of beyond-cognitive thinking skill. (Published Abstract)