The Effectiveness of Scientific Stations Strategy in Developing the Strategic Competence of Second-Grade Female Students of Intermediate School in Al-Qassim Region

Abstract

     The study aimed at identifying the effectiveness of scientific stations strategy in developing the strategic competence of second-grade female students of intermediate school in Al-Qassim region. It relied on the experimental method with a quasi-experimental design based on both experimental and control groups. The study sample, which consisted of (48) female students of the second grade of intermediate school, from the Tenth Intermediate School in Buraidah, was selected by cluster random method. Using the scientific stations strategy, this research studied the experimental group (which numbered (25) female students), while the control group (which numbered (23) female students) were studied using the standard method. The following study tool was built: The strategic competence test, which is defined in three basic skills, namely: Formulating the mathematical problem, representing the mathematical problem, and solving the mathematical problem.

     The study reached a set of results, the most notably are: There are statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the female students in experimental and control groups in the post application of the strategic competence test in favor of the experimental group. Moreover, the findings showed a significant impact of the scientific stations strategy in developing strategic competence.