The Impact of Using the Hill Climbing Strategy on the Students' Academic Achievement in the College of Educational Sciences at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University in the Subject of the Prophetic Biography and its Teaching Methods

Baker Sameeh  Al-Mawajdeh; Amjad F.  Alrekebat; Ahmad Adnan  Al-Khattab; Hussein Ali  Al-Lawama; Mansour Hamed  Talhouni

doi:10.36941/jesr-2024-0193

Authors

Baker Sameeh Al-Mawajdeh Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma’an, Jordan
Amjad F. Alrekebat Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma’an, Jordan
Ahmad Adnan Al-Khattab Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma’an, Jordan *Corresponding Author
Hussein Ali Al-Lawama Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma’an, Jordan
Mansour Hamed Talhouni Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma’an, Jordan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36941/jesr-2024-0193

Keywords:

Hill Climbing strategy, achievement, the Prophetic Biography, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University

Abstract

The study aimed to determine the impact of using the Hill Climbing strategy on the students' academic achievement in the College of Educational Sciences at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University in the subject of the Prophetic Biography and its teaching methods. The study sample consisted of 80 students from the College of Educational Sciences studying the Prophetic Biography and its teaching methods during the second semester of the academic year 2021-2022 at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University. The students were divided into two groups: the control group, consisting of 40 students, who learned using traditional methods, and the experimental group, also consisting of 40 students, who learned using the Hill Climbing strategy. The researchers prepared an achievement test to measure the academic achievement of the students in the topic of Prophetic Biography and its teaching methods. The results of the study showed statistically significant differences between the two study groups in the students' level of achievement, in favor of the experimental group that learned using the Hill Climbing strategy. The study recommends the necessity and importance of employing the Hill Climbing strategy in teaching other Islamic education subjects such as Jurisprudence and its teaching methods and Creed and its teaching methods. The study also recommends conducting comparative studies between the Hill Climbing strategy and other modern teaching strategies.

Received: 13 August 2024 / Accepted: 29 October 2024 / Published: 05 November 2024