The effectiveness of the expert’s mantle strategy for improving critical, appreciative, and creative understanding skills among fifth-grade primary school students in Riyadh

Abstract

The goal of the current research is to identify the effectiveness of the expert’s mantle strategy in improving the skills of critical understanding, gustatory understanding, and creative understanding among fifth-grade primary school students in Riyadh. The research sample was randomly selected and consisted of (60) female students. They were divided into (30) female students representing the experimental group, and (30) female students representing the control group, all of whom were aged between (11-12) years. The following tools were applied to them: testing reading comprehension skills, and teaching sessions using the expert’s mantle strategy, and they were applied to the experimental group only. After analyzing the data statistically, the results of the study showed that there were statistically significant differences at the level of (0.01) between the average scores of the pre- and post-measurements for the experimental group in the total score for testing the skills of critical understanding, gustatory understanding, and creative understanding, and in each skill separately in favor of the post-measurement. The results also showed the presence of significant differences. Statistical significance at the level of (0.01) between the average scores of the experimental and control groups in the post-measurement in the total score for the skills of critical understanding, gustatory understanding, and creative understanding, and in each skill separately, in favor of the experimental group. The results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the average scores of the post and follow-up measurements for the experimental group in critical, appreciative, and creative understanding skills.