Impact of social short reports strategy on development of self-efficacy among fifth grade elementary pupils

AbstractThe present study aims to investigating empirically the effect of the short reports strategy on development of their social competence among fifth pupils.In order to achieve this aims an experiment was designed where two groups consisted of (64) pupils boy in fifth primary class in Mosul city. The first group represented the experimental group (EG) which consisted of (30 pupils) in the Nineveh primary school for boys, this group was taught by using hot chair strategy, while the second group represents the control group (CG) which consisted of (34 pupils) in AL-Numaniyah primary school for boys, this group was taught by traditional method. Both of the groups (EG and CG) had been made equivalent in several variables namely :( The age measured in months, intelligence test (IQ), parents academic level, pupils scares in mathematics for the previous year, pupils scores average in the previous year, the participants scores in the pre-test of their social competence ), after applying the experiment, the researcher had applied the pre-test and the pro-test of their social competence Furthermore, the results have been analyzed statistically by using (T-test), the results showed that there is, statistically significant differences the pupils studied in using the short reports strategy comparing with the another group.