Interactive Thinking for outstanding students and their peers Research extracted from a master's thesis

Abstract

The aim of the current research is to identify:

• Interactive thinking among outstanding middle school students and their ordinary peers.
• Statistically significant differences in the level of interactive thinking among outstanding middle school students and their ordinary peers, according to gender (male - female).

In order to achieve the goals, it was necessary to prepare a tool for measuring interactive thinking, and after reviewing the literature and studies, the researcher prepared a scale consisting of (24) items distributed over (4) fields, and after verifying the psychometric properties of the research scale and its paragraphs, it was applied to the basic research sample of ( 400) male and female students from the outstanding students in Babylon Governorate for the academic year (2021_2022), they were chosen randomly with a proportional distribution, so that choosing the sample in this way makes it more representative of the original community, and after analyzing the data statistically using the Statistical Bag for Social Sciences (SPSS), the results were produced the following:

• Outstanding students generally have a high level of interactive thinking, and this represents a positive indicator and confirms the proper preparation process for this class.
• The level of interactive thinking among the outstanding students is affected by the gender variable because it is the result of the outstanding students' perceptions, the environmental conditions they are subjected to and their unique characteristics.