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The Relationship between the Perceived Classroom Environment and Thinking Methods among Secondary Stage Students in Amman Governorate Schools
Khaled Shaker Al-Saraireh

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived classroom environment and thinking style among secondary stage student in Amman directorate in additional to explore the differences in the perceived classroom environment and thinking style according to gender, grade, specialization and the average. To achieve the study goals, the researcher used My Class Room Inventory (MCI) and Abu Hasten inventory for thinking style. Whereby both the instrument had appropriate validity and reliability indices. Besides, available sample was selected consist from 192 male and female student were studying in the school of the second Amman directorate in the 2nd semester of 2009/2010 year. After the data had been collected, the statistical analysis was conductedand achieved the following result: The competition dimension had the higher means (3.88) whereas the friction dimension had the lowest mean. The hierarchal thinking style was in the first rank with means (4.20) whereas the conservative thinking style was in the last rank with means (3.59). There was significant correlation between classroom environment and the thinking style. There is significant difference in the level of the friction among males rather than female. Also there is significant difference in satisfaction, difficulty, friction and homogeneous, the 2nd secondary student had higher level comparing to the 1st secondary class. There are significant difference in all thinking style dimensions except judgmental, conservativeand external, the second secondary class student were higher in all of them.

How to cite this article
Khaled Shaker Al-Saraireh , 2012. The Relationship between the Perceived Classroom Environment and Thinking Methods among Secondary Stage Students in Amman Governorate Schools. The Social Sciences, 7: 596-602.

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