The Effect of the Use of the Strategy of the Debate in the Skill of Evaluating the Arguments of Students in the First Grade Average Schools of Distinguished in Biology

Abstract

The research seeks to identify the Effect of using the debate strategy in the skill of evaluating the arguments among the students of the first grade intermediate schools of distinct students in biology.

The research was determined by the students of the first intermediate schools of distinct students of the Middle Euphrates provinces, which included (the center of the province of Qadisiyah , the district of Shamia, Babylon, Najaf, holy Karbala), and their number(377) students, the researcher choose the semi-controlled experimental  design, and selected the secondary school for boys in the Directorate of Education of Al- Qadisiyah. The researcher prepare tool for this design, was to test the skill of evaluating the arguments, which consisted of (19) items in its final form distributed over three alternatives. , Where they were verified the validity by the coefficient of difficulty and discrimination, and reliability using Kronbach's Alpha as (0.75).

The result were: The students of the experimental group outweigh the students of the control group in the test of the skill of evaluating arguments. In light of the research results, the researcher recommended some recommendations.