Effective reading skills and its relationship to a deep understanding of chemistry among middle school students in Iraq

Abstract

The goal of the research is to identify effective reading skills and deep understanding in chemistry among middle school students in Iraq, the aim of the research is to identify the correlational relationship between effective reading skills and deep understanding, the relational descriptive research approach was adopted, and the research sample consisted of (250) students from the first intermediate grade, that is, 32% of the research community from the academic year 2020/2021 AD was chosen from the Baghdad Governorate Center from the Al-Karkh Education Directorates (first, second and third), the research tools were represented by the numbers of the effective reading skills scale consisting of (40) items and the numbers of the deep understanding test of (35) a paragraph , The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS + 22) was adopted to treat the research results, and the results of the research showed that middle school students have weakness in effective reading skills and deep understanding, and that there is a statistically significant positive correlation between effective reading and deep understanding, the researchers recommended the need for chemistry teachers to focus on deep understanding and its skills when Teaching chemistry content for the first intermediate grade as well as effective reading skills.