"THE IMPACT OF THE 4H STRATEGY ON THE PHYSICAL SURVEY AMONG SECOND INTERMEDIATE GRADE FEMALE STUDENTS IN PHYSICS"

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the impact of the 4H strategy on the physical survey among female students in the second intermediate grade in physics. This is investigated through the following hypothesis: There is no significant statistical difference at the significance level of 0.05 between the average scores of the experimental group students, who will study according to the 4H strategy, and the average scores of the control group, who will study the same subject in the conventional method in the physical survey. The study was limited to second intermediate grade female students at Al-Shams Intermediate School for Girls, affiliated with the Directorate General for Education in Baghdad / Al-Karkh Second, for the academic year 2023-2024, and to the curriculum including the first three chapters of the physics textbook for the second intermediate grade. Two classes were randomly selected out of six to represent the experimental group, which was taught according to the 4H strategy, and the control group, which was taught according to the conventional method. The total number of research sample members was 64 students, distributed as 32 students in the experimental group and 32 in the control group. Equivalence between the two groups was verified in terms of the following variables: chronological age, intelligence, prior knowledge, and the physical survey scale. Necessary preparations for the research included formulating behavioral objectives for the specified subject, preparing teaching plans for both the experimental group according to the 4H strategy and the control group according to the conventional teaching method, and also a physical survey scale consisting of 35 items, whose validity and reliability were verified and found within the acceptable range. After completing the teaching of the scientific material, which lasted twelve weeks at two sessions per group, data were statistically processed using the SPSS program. The results showed the superiority of the experimental group over the control group in the physical survey. In light of these findings, the researchers presented a number of recommendations and suggestions.