مدى تضمين مهارات التفكير البصري في مقرر العلوم للصف الأول المتوسط بالمملكة العربية السعودية
This study aimed to identify the extent of visual-thinking skills inclusion in the science course for the first middle grade in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In order to achieve the aim of this study, the researcher used the descriptive and analytical method represented by the style (content analysis) because this style is appropriate to the nature of the study and its objectives. The research community was a science course, for the first middle grade, (edition: 1442 AH / 2020 AD), for the first semester. The study sample included all the included pictures in the science course of various types, which amounted to (112) pictures. In order to achieve the objectives of this study, the researcher prepared a list of the visual-thinking skills that are required in the science course for the first middle grade, then he transferred this list, after being judged, into a (content analysis card), and the tool by scientifically controlled. The researcher used in his study frequencies and percentages for statistical treatment. The research found that the availability of visual-thinking skills in the science course for the first middle grade was variable, while the extent of the availability of visual-thinking skills in the science course for the first middle grade for all major skills was (with a low degree). The study found that the recurrence rate for all basic skills as a whole was (449) with a percentage of (26.72%). The results of the study also found a clear deficit in most visual thinking skills. Four of the main skills of visual reasoning have been identified in the low range. These skills are: the skill of analyzing the visual shape (the repetition rate is 56 times, with a percentage of 16.66%), the skill of linking relationships in the visual form (the rate of repetition of 50 times, with a percentage of 14.88%), the skill of perceiving and interpreting the ambiguity of the visual-form (repeat rate 32 times, with a percentage of 9.52%), and the skill of extracting meanings from the visual form (24 times repetition rate, at a percentage of 7.14%). While the skill of the ability to recognize and describe the visual-shape and read it in the high range (frequency rate of 287 times, a percentage of 85.41%). In the light of these results, the study presented a number of recommendations and proposals related to this topic. (Published abstract)