فاعلية تدريس مادة العلوم الطبيعية باستخدام استراتيجية خرائط المفاهيم في تنمية التحصيل الدراسي ومهارات التفكير الابتكاري : دراسة تجريبية على عينة من تلاميذ الطور المتوسط بمدينة تمنراست
The study aimed to know the effectiveness of teaching Biology (Science)subject employing concept maps to improve the results in studying and creative thinking skills. In addition to discovering the differentiation between girls and boys for academic achievement and creative thinking from the experimental group. To achieve the goal, the researcher implemented the empiric research (semi experimental method) with two groups selected (one experimental and other control group) using pretest and post test. The experimental group included 38 learners, the control group its learners amounted of 35 learners both graded third year middle school from Ahmed Nouaoura Middle School Tamenghest (Algeria).Two balanced achievement tests were built pretest that covered “Inter dynamism on the Earth” domain comprised three tasks: Two tasks Which contained 7 questions in each, but the third one (a situation of integration). However the post test covered ”Extra dynamism on the Earth” domain and exploitation of underground natural resources (three tasks contain 21 questions and a situation of integration. The tests measure (remembering-comprehension-application) designing concept maps. The researcher employed thinking creative test split into 2 parts set by Khair Allah. The first part is selected from Torance Battery Test known (Minnesota’s Creative Thinking Test). The second one Baroun Test which was employed to measure creativity and both tests measure the three capacities: Fluency-flexibility and generality. As we used Intelligence Test of Zaki Salah to achieve balance intelligence of the two groups (experimental and control one). When the researcher was sure of the psychometric characteristics of thinking creative test tools, the pretest and post test to measure. The experimental group was taught the same domain using concept map but the control group was taught by the normal method and after employing (pretest and post test) testing them using (program statistical in science SPSS V20 rely on statistic model Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Test ”T”. The results were as follows: there is existence of differences with statistical significance between the experimental group and control group test, unlike in practice there is no difference for the two groups, there is difference in the two groups in thinking critically and the three skills (fluency- accuracy-authentic), no difference in gender(male or female) in experimental group, there is existence of differences with statistical significance between experimental group and control group in post test completely and at the level of remembering and comprehension. (Author’s abstract)