The Effectiveness of Fermi Problem solving with Flipped Learning Techniques in Teaching physics on Improving Critical Thinking Skills among Emirati Secondary Students

Abstract

The urgent need of developing novel teaching methods in education to improve the critical thinking
skills has been widely discussed by educational experts. The present study aims to investigate the
effect iveness of Fermi problem solving with flipped learning techniques in teaching physics on the
improvement of critical thinking skills among Emirati tenth graders . The sample of the study consists of 40
male and female secondary students from two secondary schools belonging to Abu Dhabi Department
of Education and Knowledge in United Arab Emirates divided into two groups; the control group
consist s of 20 students (10 male and 10 female) taught the physics unit by traditional method s , the
e xperimental group consist s of 20 stu dents (10 male s and 10 female s ) taught the physics unit by Fermi
problem solving with flipped learning techniques. The quasi experimental design was used, where the
modified critical thinking skills test was prepared and administered on the two group s as a pre test
before the students start the treatment and as a post test once they are finish ed . The MANCOVA and
Two Way ANCOVA tests were employed to analyze the data. The findings showed that there were
statistically significant differences at (α = 0.05) in student s critical thinking skills test (in favor of
experimental group) group), indicating that the performance of students in treatment group was better than
the control group in the post test. This means that the Fermi problem solving with flippe d learning
techniques has significant effect iveness on improvement of critical thinking skills among the United Arab
Emirates secondary students Also there were no statistically significant differences between male and
female students.