Designing Educational model of questioning for Social Studies and investigating the efficiency of the model an understanding concepts and critical thinking

The present study aims to design Educational model of questioning for Social Studies and to validate its efficiency in conceptual understanding and critical thinking of students grade six of primary school in educational year 95-96. This research is a combinational one and consists of two parts: the first part is allocated to designing an appropriate model of questioning for Social Studies and the second part is related to validating the efficiency of this model in conceptual understanding and critical thinking. In qualitative section synthesis research is used to design models and in quantitative section which aims to test the efficiency of the designed model on scientific concept understanding and critical thinking of student in grade six of primary school, using and experiment we randomly chose 50 male students and divided them experimental group and control group. In order to compare critical thinking and scientific concept understanding of these two groups, Kernels test of critical thinking was used both in pre – test and post - test. The collected data were analyzed using co – variance analytical test. The results in qualitative section led to designing a model with seven dimensions (fundamentals, principals, techniques, procedures, stages, questions, objective, and evaluation). The results in quantitative section indicated that the designed model improved critical thinking and understanding concepts in experiment group.