الملخص الإنجليزي
The study aimed to determine the effectiveness of the semantic maps strategy on developing
the skill of analyzing the historical text and the reasoning thinking skills of fifth-grade
students, and the researcher used the quasi-experimental approach, as the sample consisted
of ) ( students from the fifth-grade basic students at the (Asya Bint Al-Harith Al-Saadia 64
School for Basic Education.
(8-5) In the state of Rustaq, Al Batinah South Governorate, the sample was divided into two
groups: the experimental group and consisted of ) ( female students (studied using 32
semantic maps, while the control group consisted of ) ( female students studied in the usual 32
way, and the equivalence of the two groups was verified through the tribal application of the
two test texts analysis Historical and inferential reasoning.
The researcher used two tools to collect data, which was represented in the test of analyzing
historical texts, which consisted of ) ( historical texts followed by questions, (4) and testing 4
of reasoning thinking and consisted of ) ( questions in both inferential and deductive 20
aspects. Calculates the stability coefficient of its internal consistency, the T-test was used
for statistical analysis and comparison between the two study groups.
The results of the study showed that there is a statistically significant difference at the level
( between the mean of the two study samples in the analysis of historical texts analysis, 0.01)
and the test of inferential thinking skills in favor of the experimental group. In the light of
these results, the researcher recommended the necessity to employ the semantic maps
strategy in teaching social studies subject.
