The Effectiveness of an Educational Program Based on Contract Learning in Developing Writing Skills among Tenth Grade Students in Jordan

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the effectiveness of an educational program based on contract learning in developing writing skills among tenth grade students in Jordan, where the quasi-experimental approach was used. Its members consisted of two classes of tenth grade classes at Al-Khader Modern School affiliated with the Directorate of Education, Marka District, Amman, Jordan, in the first semester of the academic year 2024/2025, and their number was (40) students. The two groups were randomly distributed, where group (A) represented the experimental group (20) students who studied eight lessons from the book (Arabic is My Language) prescribed for the tenth grade using the contract learning strategy, and group (B) represented the control group (20) students who studied the same content using the traditional method. To achieve the objectives of the study, a writing skills test and a writing skills correction card were prepared, which were divided into two areas: content and style, and consisted of (50) paragraphs, which included the criteria for correcting writing skills, after ensuring their validity and reliability. The results indicated the presence of statistically significant differences between the averages of the experimental and control groups on the post-test for developing writing skills, attributed to the use of the educational program based on contract learning in favor of the experimental group. In light of these results, the researchers recommended a set of recommendations, the most prominent of which is the adoption of the educational program based on contract learning in teaching Arabic language courses for the secondary stage.