Islamic Sciences Journal

The current study aims at “identifying the effect of Exchange Teaching strategy on the development of scientific thinking of 4th year preparatory school students in Islamic Education”.
The researcher has formulated a null-hypothesis which states that “there are no significant differences in the post test, at 0.01 level between the mean scores of the experimental group who are taught Islamic Education according to the Exchange Teaching strategy , on one hand , and the mean scores of the control group who are tough the same material according to the traditional method , on the other hand .
A sample of 4th year scientific preparatory students has been chosen from AL-Sader Preparatory School for Boys which is situated in the city of Kirkuk. This sample includes two section A and B . Randomly, section A is chosen to represent the experimental group. The two groups are taught the same instructional material for a period of 13 weeks. Results shows the superiority of the experimental group, who are taught by the Exchange Teaching strategy in the test of the scientific thinking. later on, a number of conclusions and recommendations are given.