Abstract

The research aimed to know the effectiveness of programmed education in the achievement of fifth-grade students in the subject of social studies, the research was limited to a sample of fifth-grade students, who numbered students in a primary school for boys in the district of Hilla, Babil governorate. The researcher identified the scientific material for the students of the research, which is the topics of the first, second and third chapters of the social studies book decided by the Ministry of Education, and prepared behavioral goals according to the content of the study material, which numbered goals and typical teaching plans of plans, and the first three levels of the classification of for the cognitive domain were identified and presented to A number of specialists, and for the purpose of achieving the goal of the research, the researcher put a null hypothesis and chose an experimental design with partial control for two groups, one of them is experimental and the other is control, as Division represented the experimental group that was studied according to the use of programmed education and Division the control group that studied according to The traditional method, the researcher conducted the process of parity between the two research groups and to find out the significance of the differences between them, he applied the achievement test of items of the type of multiple choice, The following statistical methods were used: t-test for two independent samples, chi-square, Pearson correlation coefficient, Spearman-Brown correlation coefficient. The results of the research indicated the superiority of the experimental group in the achievement test over the control group, and these results indicated the effectiveness of programmed education in the educational process compared to the traditional method. In light of this, the researcher reached several conclusions and developed a number of recommendations and suggestions.