The effect of the cluster umbrella strategy on the development of expressive performance among fourth-grade literary students

Abstract

This research aims to know (the effect of the cluster umbrella strategy on the development of expressive performance among fourth-grade literary students). The researcher has  intentionally chosen  secondary school  (Al-Nahrawan for boys) that is related to  Baghdad Education, Rusafa Third, where he chose two divisions of fourth-grade literary students (experimental and  control). The researcher has studied the two research groups, and  the sample amounted 56 , 28 students for each section  (the experimental and  control  groups)  included the educational material assigned to be taught in the second academic year (2018/2019), which are six topics of expression, and then he prepared the clusters for the experimental group students, which reached (6) clusters that covered the content of the academic subjects.  After the researcher has  finished preparing the clusters, he proceeded to prepare the study plans, which number (6) plans. Then he has  formulated the (57) behavioral goals, prepared a series of tests on expressive performance for the purposes of his research to be applied to the two research groups, then corrected them, based on Al-Hashemi  tests (1994), and by using the T-test for two independent samples, the results are as follow: The existence of a statistically significant difference at the level of (0.05) between the average scores of the experimental group and the control group in the series of tests, in favor of the experimental group.

In light of the results of the research, the researcher recommended: -

- Adopting the cluster umbrella strategy when teaching the expression subject. To complete this research, the researcher suggested conducting a study similar to this study in other variables