Arabic Language High School Teachers Acquisition Level of the Evaluative Thinking Skills and their Inclination towards it

Abstract

This current research objective is to identify:

• Arabic languag male and female high school teachers Acquisition level of Evaluative thinking skills.
• Arabic language male and female high school teachers Inclination towards the use of evaluative thinking skills.
• The correlation between the Acquisition level of evaluative thinking skills and the Inclination towards it among teachers of Arabic language and its teachers in the preparatory stage.

In order to verify the set objectives, the researcher formulated the following null hypotheses:

• There is no statistically significant difference at the level of (0.05) between the average scores of teachers of Arabic language and its teachers in the preparatory stage in the degree of use of evaluative thinking skills and the hypothetical average of the observation form.
• There is no statistically significant difference at the level of (0.05) between the average scores of teachers of Arabic language and its teachers in the preparatory stage in the scale of the Inclination towards the use of evaluative thinking skills and the hypothetical average of the scale.
• There is no correlation at the level of (0.05) between application level of Arabic language teachers and teachers in the preparatory stage of evaluative thinking skills and their Inclination towards it. To investigate, implement, and test the hypotheses of the research, the researcher followed the steps and processes of the descriptive approach.As for the research community, it is represented by teachers of Arabic language in the preparatory schools in the directorates of education in Baghdad Governorate ( Rusafa I/ Rusafa II / Rusafa III ). The researcher selected the research sample in the regular class image, which amounted to (87) teachers of Arabic language in the preparatory stage and by (25%) of the original research community, by (25) teachers and (62) schools.

The researcher prepared the observation card form to measure the evaluative thinking skills of the research sample, which consisted of thirty-eight items distributed over five areas , and the Inclination scale for the purpose of knowing the direction of teachers of Arabic language and its teachers towards evaluative thinking skills, as it consists  of thirty-six items  , and the researcher confirmed their psychometric characteristics.

The research results found a weak of the Arabic language subject by teachers and teachers in the preparatory stage of Evaluative thinking skills, with positive Inclination towards it , and the absence of a correlation between the Acquisition level  and direction .

The researcher recommended the need to train teachers of Arabic language in the preparatory stage on intellectual programs and activities that stimulate thinking in general and evaluative thinking in particular.