College of Education for Pure Science

Master Thesis Viva in the College of Education for Pure Science entitled ” Teaching complex analysis with divergent thinking strategies and its impact on achievement and self-regulation development for students of the Department of Mathematics ”

The College of Education for Pure Science, University of Mosul, has done the Master Thesis Viva entitled ” Teaching complex analysis with divergent thinking strategies and its impact on achievement and self-regulation development for students of the Department of Mathematics”,

On Sunday, August 27, 2023, the College staff including the respected Dean of the College, Assistant Professor Dr. Qais Ismail Ibrahim, the Honorable Scientific Associate and Administrative Associate, the Honorable Head of the Department of Mathematics, and a number of the college’s teachers were attended the viva.

The aim of this study, presented by the Master student Ekhlass Elias Abdulaziz Al-Jarjari in the Department of Mathematics, is to determine how teaching complex analysis using divergent thinking techniques affects students’ academic performance and the growth of their ability to control their emotions

To achieve the goal of the research, the researcher put forward three zero hypotheses, and a sample of fourth-grade students from the department of mathematics and the college of education for pure sciences was selected at the University of Mosul for the academic year 2022-2023. Two divisions were selected from the research community by a simple random method.

In the same random way, the CD division was named as an experimental group taught according to divergent thinking strategies and the AB division as a control group taught according to the usual method. The sample included 131 students divided into two groups: the experimental group, which consisted of 67 male and female students studying divergent thinking strategies, and the control group, which consisted of 64 students studying the subject as usual. The researcher used an experimental design with two equal groups in several variables, such as the chronological age calculated in months, the student’s overall average, their level of intelligence, their parents’ educational attainment, and their self-educational abilities.

Two tools were developed by the researcher. The first is an achievement test for complex analysis that consists of 20 multiple-choice test items. Its apparent validity, distinction, the difficulty of its paragraphs, the effectiveness of its alternatives, and proof of its homogeneity, which came to 0.73 degrees, were verified

The experiment was carried out by the school of the same subject in the first semester of the academic year 2022-2023 on Sunday, October 16, 2022, and continued until Thursday, May 1, 2023. The second tool is the measure of self-regulation skills, and its final form consists of 40 items. The experiment lasted an entire semester, with two lessons per week for each group, and after completing the experiment the two tools were applied to the research sample.

In the light of the research results, the researcher came out with several conclusions:

Effectiveness of strategy teaching according to divergent thinking strategies by setting goals for the teaching plan and dividing students into groups to raise mathematical problems and collective search for alternative solutions. The strategy’s reliance on the sensory experiences of the students, and the learning, and perception, and absorption of the abstract concepts led to the superiority of the students of the experimental group in the development of self-regulation. This strategy also contributed to helping students learn new experimental methods that made it easier for them to understand the subjects of complex analysis. As a complement to the current research, the researcher put forward proposals for future research.

The Viva committee was chaired by Asst. Prof. Dr. Azhar Ali Hussein /University of Zakho /College of Education and the membership of Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahmed obaid Awaid /University of Mosul / Presidency of the University of Mosul, Lecturer Dr. Omar fadel Hammadi /University of Mosul / College of Education for Girls and under the supervision and membership of both Prof. Dr. Enas younues Al-Azwo / University of Mosul, College of Education for Pure Science and Asst. Prof. Taghreed Hamdoun Shukr/ University of Mosul, College of Education for Pure Science.