An Evaluation of the Efficacy of an Active Learning-based Program in Enhancing Creative Writing Skills among First-year secondary School Students in Sana'a Governorate.

Abstract

The study aims to build a program based on active learning and measure its effectiveness in developing creative writing skills among first-year secondary school students in Sana’a Governorate. The study employs a quasi-experimental design with two groups: an experimental group and a control group. To achieve the study's objectives, the researcher prepared a list of creative writing skills suitable for first-year secondary school students and developed a test to measure these skills. Additionally, the researcher created a program based on active learning utilizing the numbered heads strategy. The study sample consists of (60) students divided into two groups: one control group with (30) students who studied using traditional methods, and one experimental group with (30) students who learned through the numbered heads strategy. All members of the study sample participated in a pre-test and a post-test for creative writing skills. The results indicate that there was a statistically significant difference at the significance level of (0.05) between the average scores of the experimental and control groups in the post-application of the creative writing test, favoring the experimental group. In light of these findings, the study concludes with several recommendations.