The current research aims to identify “the effect of the group punctuation strategy on the acquisition of Arabic grammar among fifth-grade female students.” To achieve the research goal, the researcher chose the experimental method, the design with partial control, and the post-test for the research group. After that, the research community was determined, and the research sample consisted of (60). A female student from the fifth grade of primary school in (Shu`a Al-Ilm Primary School) was intentionally chosen by the researcher from the schools affiliated with the Baghdad Education Directorate, Al-Rusafa II. The sample was distributed randomly into two groups (experimental and control), with (30) female students in the experimental group and (30) female students in the control group. The researcher rewarded the students of the two research groups in the following variables: (chronological age calculated in months, the academic achievement of the parents, and the final grades of the Arabic language subject for the previous academic year). The researcher studied the students of the experimental group using the group numbering strategy, while the students of the control group studied in the usual way, and determined The researcher took the scientific material included in the experiment from the Arabic grammar book for the fifth grade of primary school for the academic year 2023-2024. The researcher formulated the behavioral objectives, and in the end their number reached (45) behavioral objectives. She prepared teaching plans and presented examples of them to the experts. The researcher prepared a post-test consisting of (25) items distributed across the first three levels of Bloom’s classification to represent the research tool. After applying the experiment, the researcher applied the tool to the research sample. The researcher used the Social Statistical Package (SPSS) for statistical methods, and the results showed that the female students of the experimental group outperformed the female students of the control group in the achievement of the Arabic grammar subject, and the differences were statistically significant between the students of the two groups. One of the most important conclusions was that the group punctuation strategy proved effective in raising the level of achievement of the Arabic grammar subject for fifth-grade primary school students compared to the usual method. The researcher recommends adopting the (group punctuation strategy) ) in teaching Arabic grammar, and in continuation of the research, the researcher proposes a study similar to this study on other academic stages and other variables.
Fifth grade students in girls’ day (primary) schools affiliated with the General Directorate of Education. Baghdad Governorate / Al-Rusafa II.
The second semester of the academic year (2023-2024).
A number of grammar topics scheduled to be taught to the fifth grade of primary school.
Third: The fifth grade of primary school: “It is one of the grades of the primary stage in which the duration of study is six years, and its function is to prepare students (males and females) for working life or middle school.” (31)
Theoretical aspects:
Positive mutual dependence: The first requirement for cooperative learning is that students believe. That they learn the educational material, and make sure that all members of their group learn this material, so that they realize that they are connected with their colleagues in the group in a way that they cannot succeed unless their colleagues in the group succeed, so they must coordinate their efforts in their group until they complete the task that was entrusted to them
Individual accountability and collective responsibility: Every member of the group bears responsibility. Mastering the assigned educational material. The group members cooperatively aim to encourage each member to increase his or her achievement, and the group members support each other to help themselves achieve the general task required of the groups and the tasks assigned to each member.
Confrontational interaction: Cooperative learning requires direct and face-to-face interaction. Face-to-face between students, through which they enhance the learning and success of each of them, by supporting, encouraging, and praising the efforts of each member of the group to learn from others.
Interpersonal and small group communication skills: Members of cooperative learning groups should learn some necessary social skills, such as leadership. And decision-making and confidence-building, as we wanted the cooperative groups to be productive.
Collective processing: The purpose of collective processing is to clarify and improve. The effectiveness of members in their contribution to cooperative efforts to achieve the group’s goals, and thus making decisions about which behavior should be continued, and which behavior should be changed (20).
Educational foundations: developing individual abilities as well as developing his social aspect, which leads to integrated education through developing and shaping social behavior in a way that prompts the student to abandon and move away from individual motives and attitudes and respect the system.
Psychological foundations: Interacting with the group, the student is able. Satisfying his needs and strengthening his motivations. Belonging to the group helps the professor discover. Students’ tendencies and influencing their behavior in a positive direction.
Social foundations: The student is able to work within the framework of the group, and in doing so he achieves one of the important human needs that he seeks to achieve, which is the feeling of belonging to the group, so he seeks to strengthen it and tries to achieve the goals of the group to which he belongs (12).
The teacher gives a number to each learner in the group.
The teacher explains the academic concept using the blackboard and pre-prepared worksheets.
The teacher asks a question.
The teacher asks the learners to discuss the question together in each group, to make sure that every member of the team knows the answer.
The teacher asks for a specific number, and everyone with the same number in each group must answer the answer agreed upon among the members of his group. (Zayer et al., Part 1, 2017: 67)
Jassim’s study (2023): The study was conducted at Al-Mustansiriya University / College of Basic Education. The aim of the study is to know “the effect of the solved example strategy and problem completion on the acquisition of Arabic grammar for fifth-grade primary school girls.” The researcher followed the experimental research method and chose an experimental design with partial control. The research sample consisted of (60) female students, with (30) the experimental group and (30) the control group. The researcher rewarded the two research groups in the variables: (chronological age, parents’ academic achievement, Arabic language grades. In the previous year, intelligence test scores. ), the same researcher studied the two research groups and prepared. An achievement test consisting of (25) items. The researcher used the statistical package in the SPSS program, and after processing the data statistically, results emerged that the experimental group was superior to the control group.
Quality study (2023): The study was conducted at Al-Mustansiriya University / College of Basic Education. The aim of the study was to know “the effect of the Keys to Knowledge strategy on the acquisition of Arabic grammar among fifth-grade primary school students.” The researcher followed the experimental research approach and chose an experimental design with partial control, which consisted The research sample consisted of (69) students (34) the experimental group and (35) the control group, grades in the Arabic language subject in the previous year, intelligence test scores. The researcher herself studied the two research groups, prepared an achievement test consisting of (30) items, and the researcher used The statistical package in the SPSS program, and after processing the data statistically, results emerged that the experimental group was superior to the control group.
Group | Independent Variable | Dependent Variable | Instrument |
Experimental | Collective Numbering Strategy | Achievement | Post-Achievement Test |
Control | ------------- |
Group | Section | Number of students before exclusion. | Number of failed students. | Number of students. After exclusion | |||||
Experimental | D | .35 | .5 | 30. | |||||
Control | G | .33 | .3 | 30. | |||||
the total | .68 | .8 | 60. | ||||||
Educational achievement of mothers and fathers:
Write your name and branch on the answer sheet.
Group Experimental | No, | Parents' academic achievement |
| chi square value | function 0,05 | ||||
Primary and below | Intermediate | Preparatory and institute | Bachelor's and above | Degree of freedom | Calculated | Tabular | |||
Control | 30 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 7 |
3 | 1,643 | 7,82 |
Not significant |
Group | 30 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 7 | ||||
Mothers' academic achievement | |||||||||
Experimental | 30 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 2,591 | |||
Control | 30 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
group | No. | Chronological age in months | degree of freedom | T-value | function 0,05
| |||
Mean | Standard Deviation | Variance | Calculated | Tabular | ||||
Experimental | 30 | 135,80 | 6,54 | 42,77 |
58
| 0,407
|
2 |
Not significant |
Control | 30 | 136,43 | 5,45 | 29,70 | ||||
Arabic language grades for the previous academic year |
| |||||||
Experimental | 30 | 8,37 | 1,45 | 2,10 |
1,585 | |||
Control | 30 | 7,73 | 1,63 | 2,65 |
Today | Lesson time 8:00 | Lesson time 8:45 | Article |
Monday | Experimental | Control | Rules |
Tuesday | Control | Experimental |
ت | Topics.
| Levels of cognitive domain objectives according to Bloom's taxonomy. | the total | ||
Knowledge | Understanding | Application | |||
1 | Preposition and noun | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
2 | Dual noun and its declension | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 |
3 | Sound masculine plural and its declension | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
4 | Sound feminine plural and its declension | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
5 | Conjunction | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
the total | 9 | 16 | 20 | 45 |
Topics | Number of pages | Relative importance of content | Knowledge %20 | Understanding%36 | Application%44 | Number of paragraphs |
Preposition and noun | 6 | %16 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Dual noun | 9 | %24 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
Sound masculine plural | 9 | %24 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
Sound feminine plural | 8 | %22 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
Kindness | 5 | %14 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Total | 37 | %100 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 25 |
The answer will be on the test paper itself.
Warning not to leave any paragraph unanswered.
• Instructions for correcting test items: One point was allocated to the item with a correct answer and zero to the item with an incorrect answer, left out, or with more than one answer.
5- Survey application:
In order to establish knowledge of the clarity of the test items, their difficulty, the strength of their discrimination, the effectiveness of the incorrect alternatives, and the time taken to answer them, the researcher applied the test to an exploratory sample consisting of (60) fifth-grade female students from the same research community in after. Coordination with the school administration and the Arabic language teacher, and it became clear that the test items were clear and not ambiguous. The time it took to answer (45) minutes was to answer all the paragraphs, and the test was conducted after the researcher made sure that the exploratory sample had completed the Arabic grammar topics scheduled to be taught in the experiment.
8- Statistical analysis of test items:
After correcting the students’ answers, the researcher arranged the scores in descending order and then chose the two extreme samples, the highest and the lowest (27%). The following is an explanation of the procedures for statistical analysis of the test items:
A - Paragraph difficulty factor: “The difficulty of the paragraph means the percentage of individuals who got an answer to the paragraph correctly divided by the number of individuals as a whole. Studies have shown that the best test items have a difficulty level of (0.20) and (0.80) (18). After the researcher calculated the difficulty factor for each test item, she found that it ranges between (0.32-0.65). This means that the test items are acceptable and their difficulty factor is appropriate.
B - The item’s discrimination coefficient: means its ability to distinguish between individuals with high scores and those with low scores (8). After calculating the discrimination coefficient for each item in the test, it was found that it ranges between (0.30-0.64.) Ebel indicates that the achievement test items are considered good if their discriminatory power is (0.30) or more. This means that all test items are good and distinctive, that is, they have discriminatory power.
T - The effectiveness of wrong alternatives: In multiple-choice questions, the alternatives must be sufficiently effective when some people make mistakes, but not everyone. There is no benefit from a wrong alternative that everyone knows or everyone makes mistakes with, and the number of wrong choices should be less for the upper category than for the wrong alternatives. The world and after using the effectiveness of the wrong alternatives, it was found that they were between (-0.37.) and (-0.185.) That is, the false alternatives attracted a greater number of female students in the lower group than female students in the upper group, and this is an indication of the effectiveness of camouflage.
D - Reliability of the test: Reliability is that it gives the same results if it is re-applied a second time to the same individuals and in the same circumstances. There are many methods to measure the reliability of the test, and the most prominent of these commonly used methods in tests is the retest method, and the retest method. Equivalent forms, the method of re-correcting the test and agreeing with another scorer, the split-half method, the Coward-Richard method, and the Alpha-Cronbach method (13). The researcher used the split-half method. One of the advantages of this method is the economy of time, as the test is applied in one go. And reduce the effects of boredom, fatigue, and experience that learners gain in retesting. This method measures the homogeneity and internal consistency of the test (Lovell, 1976: 77). The researcher divided the test items, which numbered (25), in their final form into two groups, which included: The first group included the scores of the odd items, and the second group included the scores of the even items. By using the Pearson correlation coefficient to calculate the reliability between the two groups, its value was (0.82), then corrected with the Spearman-Brown equation, and the value of the reliability coefficient reached (0.90), which is a high reliability coefficient.
C- The final image of the test: after completing the statistical procedures. Related to the test and its items, the test in its final form consists of (25) items after it was presented to the experts. And make an amendment to it.
6- Application of the experiment:
The researcher began applying her experience to the students of the two research groups (experimental and control) after providing them with a book to facilitate the task on Tuesday, February 20, 2024, and after completing the requirements. The experiment: The researcher herself studied the two research groups according to the plans. Which I prepared and the teaching continued until the end of the experiment. After that, the researcher applied the achievement test to the students in my group. Research at one time on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at (8:30) in the morning for the purpose of measuring collection.
7- Statistical methods:
The researcher used the Social Statistical Package (SPSS) for statistical methods and used the following:
T-test for two independent, interconnected samples to verify the hypothesis in the research.
Chi-square (K2) to conduct statistical equivalence in the two variables of academic achievement of fathers and mothers.
Difficulty factor equation: to calculate the difficulty of an item in the post-achievement test.
Item Discrimination Coefficient Equation: To calculate the discrimination power of the post-achievement test items
Equation of the effectiveness of incorrect alternatives: to find the effectiveness of incorrect alternatives for the achievement test items.
Pearson correlation coefficient to verify the stability of the correction.
Spearman-Brown equation to correct the Pearson correlation coefficient
Chapter Four: Presentation and interpretation of the results:
First: Show the results:
To reach the goal of the research and verify the validity of the null hypothesis, which states that: There is no statistically significant difference at the level of significance (0.05) between the average achievement scores of the experimental group’s female students who study Arabic grammar according to the group numbering strategy, and the average achievement scores of the group’s female students. Female officers who study the same subject according to the usual method.
The arithmetic mean, standard deviation and variance were extracted for the students of the two research groups (experimental and control) in the achievement test after correcting the test papers. Table (7) shows this.
Table (7): The arithmetic mean, standard deviation, variance, and calculated and tabulated T-value for the scores of the female students of the two research groups in the post-achievement test
Group
| Sample size | Mean | Standard deviation | Variance. | Degree of freedom | Value (t) | Statistical significance level . | |
Calculated | Tabular | |||||||
Experimental | 30.
| 23،23. | 4،03. | 16،2409. |
58 |
3،615 |
2 |
. Statistically significant |
Control | 30. | 18،66.. | 5،62. | 31،5844. |
It is clear from Table (7) that the average score of the students in the experimental group was (23.23), and that the average score of the students in the control group was (18.66). Using the t-test for two independent samples (t-test), it appeared that the difference was statistically significant at the level of (0.05) in favor of the experimental group, as the calculated T-value was (3,615), which is greater than the tabulated T-value (2), and with a degree of freedom (58), so the null hypothesis was rejected.
Second: Interpretation of the results:
The results showed that the students of the experimental group were superior to the control group in Arabic grammar for several reasons, including:
The group numbering strategy is one of the modern teaching strategies that provided opportunities for female students to proceed in their learning according to organized and sequential steps, taking into account individual differences, and to interact with the lessons and increase their activity, which had an impact on their achievement.
The group numbering strategy has a role in motivating female students to participate in the classroom, to prepare daily, and to prepare for competition between groups, which has led to an increase in the effectiveness of the educational process.
Third: Conclusions: In light of the results shown by the research, the researcher concludes the following:
The collective numbering strategy has proven effective in raising the level. Academic achievement among fifth-grade primary school students. In the subject of Arabic grammar, compared to the usual method.
Teaching using the group numbering strategy requires time, effort, and skill. More from the teacher than is required of him when using normal methods.
In light of the results shown by the research, the researcher recommends the following:
Adopting a group numbering strategy in teaching Arabic grammar at the primary stage.
Holding training courses for teachers. The Arabic language in coordination with the Preparation and Training Department to follow modern methods, methods, strategies and models in teaching Arabic grammar.
Fifth: Proposals:
Group numbering strategy in different branches of the Arabic language.
Conducting a similar study to determine the effect of the group numbering strategy at different educational levels and other variables that were not addressed in the current research.
Conduct a similar study to determine the effect of the group numbering strategy on the gender of males and the difference between them.
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