The College of Education Ibn Rushd for Humanities at the University of Baghdad discussed a master’s thesis entitled “The Effect of the Eric Jensen Model on the Acquisition of Geographical Concepts among Fifth-Year Literary Students and the Development of Their Higher-Order Thinking.” The thesis was submitted by Mahmoud Abdul-Amir Hayawi from the Department of Geography, specializing in Methods of Teaching Geography.
The thesis defense committee was chaired by Prof. Dr. Laith Hamoud Ibrahim, with Prof. Dr. Najdat Abdul-Raouf Abdul-Ridha as a member and supervisor, and Assistant Prof. Dr. Shajan Raad Nahi as a member. Prof. Dr. Ali Muhan Aboud from the College of Education, Al-Mustansiriyah University, joined the committee as an external member.
The study aimed to identify the effect of the Eric Jensen Model on enabling fifth-year literary students to acquire geographical concepts and develop their higher-order thinking skills.
The study yielded significant findings, with statistical analyses showing statistically significant differences in favor of the experimental group in both the geographical concepts acquisition test and the higher-order thinking test. These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of learning based on the Eric Jensen Model compared with traditional teaching methods.
