Habits of Mind in Medium and High School Students

Abstract

Mental habits are not just the possession of information, but also the knowledge of how to work with it and use it, they  are a pattern of intelligent behaviors that bad the student to produce knowledge and not just memorize, when habits of mind are real, they hinder the student's abilities and pot entail for learning and when they are strong, they raise and improve the student's level of learning . Through the current research the problem focused on answering the following question , De Third- year middle school and sixth- year habits of mind? To answer this question, the researcher formulated  a number of objectives common habits of mind among middle school students and those that all and most high school students have in eluding identifying the most common habits of mind and summarizing them according. To the third-year middle school and sixth-year high school levels and the most common  and least common habits opting by research objectives, the researcher applied (Johnson & et., al) The mind test prepared by a group of researchers . At the University of Vermont, USA, and based on costa and kallick's Theory. (11) mental habits, translated, Arabized and adapted to the Iraqi environment researcher fouad Ali Farhan (2013). The scal a consists of (50) Positive- direction paragraphs that include (16) mentel habits and the paragraphs were formulated in the style of declarative phrase and placed in front of each paragraph (3) alternatives for the response that ranged from always , often sometimes and their weights (3, 2, 1) and the scale coefficient on a sample consisting of (100) male and female and the sixth secondary stage, with (50) and the third intermediate stage. With (52) males and (98) females from the schools the first Rusafa in Baghdad.  The researcher came out with the following result . The research sample has average mental habits, and there is a difference in the mental habits of students according to the gender variable in favor of males. There is no difference in the mental habits of students according to the grade variable. The percentage of students who have a high level of mental habits is (17%) of the total research sample, while the percentage of students who have a low level of mental habits is (10%). Also with a set of result and recommendation.