The Effect of Using A teaching Program Based on Constructivism at Achievement and Development of Creative Thinking Student's at The Elementary Fifth Grade in Science in Tulkarm.

This study aimed at investigating the effect of using a teaching program based on constructivism at a achievement and development of creative thinking student's at the elementary fifth grade in science in public schools of the directorate of education of tulkarm in the first semester of academic year (2013/2014). To answer the questions of the study and test its hypotheses. The researcher used the quasi-experimental approach, the study was conducted on a sample of (63) female students from the fifth grade, distributed into two sections in the same school, consisted of two group, the experimental group (32) student's, and the control group (31) student's, the experimental group taught using a teaching program based on constructivism, while the control group taught using the usual method of teaching. Two tools were used in the study: achievement test (28) items, measure of creative thinking (7) items, has been used to ensure the validity and reliability of study tools, also had been calculated difficulty and discrimination parameters of achievement test. The achievement test, and the creative thinking measure, were applied before and after teaching the education unit, and the analysis of variance (ANCOVA) was used to determine the effect of using a teaching program based on constructivism on the dependent variables in study. The results of the study showed that: • There are significant statistical differences at the level of (α=0.05) between the average score fifth grade students on achievement test, who learned according to the program based on constructivism (experimental group), and who learned the science in usual way (control group), and the difference was in favour of the group which had used a teaching program based on constructivism (experimental group). • There are significant statistical differences at the level of (α=0.05) between the average score fifth grade students on creative thinking test, who learned according to the program based on constructivism (experimental group), and who learned the science in usual way (control group), and the difference was in favour of the group which had used a teaching program based on constructivism (experimental group). Researcher recommended adopting anew methods in teaching and used widely in the Palestinian curriculum, such as the strategies used in this study; because of it is increases the motivation of student's toward learning, and development of student's thinking.