Main description (English)

The aim of the study is to determine the effect of teaching using ‎the Educational Pillars and 4Mat strategies on the achievement ‎and creative thinking of fourth-grade scientific students in ‎chemistry. To achieve the research objective, the researcher ‎formulated two null hypotheses. To confirm these hypotheses, an ‎experiment was conducted using a quasi-experimental design ‎with post-testing for the three research groups.‎ The research sample consisted of fourth-grade scientific students ‎from Al-Adhamiya Preparatory School for Boys, divided into ‎three randomly assigned groups. Group (A) represented the first ‎experimental group, taught using the Educational Pillars strategy, ‎with 33 students. Group (B) represented the second experimental ‎group, taught using the 4Mat strategy, with 33 students. Group ‎‎(C) was the control group, taught using the traditional method, ‎with 32 students.‎ The researcher ensured equivalence among the groups in several ‎variables, including prior academic achievement in chemistry, ‎chronological age (in months), and pre-measurements of creative ‎thinking. The researcher developed a research tool, a multiple-‎choice achievement test consisting of 40 items, and verified its ‎psychometric properties. A creative thinking scale was also ‎adopted.‎ The experiment was conducted during the first semester of the ‎academic year (2023-2024), with the researcher herself teaching ‎all three groups. After completing the experiment, statistical ‎analysis was conducted for the three samples.‎ The results revealed that the students in the first and second ‎experimental groups outperformed the control group in both the ‎achievement test and creative thinking. No significant difference ‎was found between the first and second experimental groups in ‎terms of achievement. However, a significant difference was ‎observed in creative thinking test results, favoring the second ‎experimental group, which was taught using the 4Mat strategy.‎ Based on these findings, the researcher drew several conclusions ‎and provided recommendations relevant to the study results. ‎Additionally, suggestions for further research were proposed. ‎