The Effect of a Strategy Based on Cognitive Empowerment on the Achievement of Second-Year Middle School Students in Biology and the Development of Their Cognitive Consistency

The current research aims to identify the effect of a strategy based on cognitive empowerment on the achievement of second-year middle school students in biology and the development of their cognitive consistency. To verify the research objective, the researcher set two null hypotheses. He also used the experimental design with two equivalent groups: an experimental group that studies according to the cognitive empowerment strategy and a control group that studies according to the traditional method. The sample consisted of the research included (64) students from the second intermediate grade, and after excluding the failed students from the sample, its size reached (60) students, with (30) students for each group. After statistically analyzing the data using appropriate statistical methods, the results demonstrated that the experimental group that employed the cognitive empower