Abstract

THE IMPACT OF TRAINING PROGRAMME BASED ON STRATEGIES OF IMPROVING MEMORY ON THE MINDFULNESS SKILLSAMONG FIRST INTERMEDIATE STAGE STUDENTS

Ahlam Jabbar Abdullah, Abhar Nasr Hussein

Volume: 9 Issue: 1 2019

Abstract:

The current research paper aims at identifying the impact of training programme based on strategies of improving memory in developing the mental alertness skills among first intermediate stage students. To achieve the objectives of the current paper, the two researchers conducted training programme which is based on the Addie model and that this programme consists of nine training units. The first unit is introductory and the other eight units represent strategies of improving memory by (34) training sessions .However, the contents of training programme sessions are included in the topics which students have taught including (science, geography, national education, Islamic education, mathematics, and Arabic).To prevent including extracurricular topics which may affect negatively on the results of the experiment given that the main purpose is to focus on strategies of improving memory more than including new topics. Moreover, the two researchers conducted establishing a scale of mental alertness skills which consist of (40) items. Each item has three options which covered the mental alertness skills which include the following: (Skill of observation, skill of description, skill of behaving consciously, skill of approval)by (10) items each skill. The two researchers have adopted semi-experimental design of partial control of two groups of experimental and control groups after carrying out equivalence. The two researchers have trained the two groups and after finishing the training programme the scale of the mental alertness skills has been applied and it shows that the experimental group has excelled on the control group in the mental alertness skill.

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