The Effect of Computer Simulation in the Development of Metacognitive Skills in Science

This study aimed to investigate the effect of computer simulation in the development of metacognitive skills in science among school students. The sample of the study was chosen from the seventh-grade students who were divided into two groups, selected randomly to forty two for the experimental group and forty two for the control group, The parity of the two groups was tested according to their scores last year. To achieve the objectives of this study, the computer simulation program was designed For Sa unit of science that continued to be applied for a month and a half, according to the model of [1], which had been submitted in 1995 to develop a five-stage multimediaassisted education, and developed in 2002 to suit E-learning technology; The scale that prepared for measurement metacognitive skills, consisted of three parts; planning, monitoring control, and evaluation. This scale was used for both experimental and control groups, before and after teaching using computer simulation of the experimental group and teaching in the traditional way of the control group. The results of this study illustrated the importance of the effect of computer simulation in the development of metacognitive skills. This was shown in the presence of statistically significant differences between the experimental and control groups in favor of the experimental group, as well as in the experimental group itself before and after the use of computer simulation as a teaching method. Computer simulation, metacognitive, scale