The exposure of university youth to scientific channels on YouTube and its relationship to their problem-solving skills and productive thinking

Document Type : Original Article

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Professor in the Department of Educational Media, Faculty of Specific Education - Mansoura University

Abstract

    Science is the basis for the progress of the individual and society, and the main structure for the development of societies. The scientific YouTube channels are a source of advanced scientific media sources interested in providing scientific knowledge, promoting science, To achieve scientific reception based on understanding and comprehension, and accordingly, the development of productive thinking skills and problem-solving skills is one of the most important requirements of the current era, and since university youth are among the most important social segments facing the age of scientific challenge in life and education; It is necessary to address the study of their exposure to scientific channels on YouTube and the extent of their relationship to problem-solving skills and productive thinking, and thus the research problem was represented in the following main question: - What is the relationship between university youth exposure to scientific channels on YouTube and their problem-solving skills and productive thinking?.
   and the results concluded that there is a relationship A statistically significant correlation between the exposure of university youth to scientific channels on YouTube and their problem-solving skills, and the existence of a statistically significant correlation between university youth exposure to scientific channels on YouTube and their productive thinking skills, and the presence of a statistically significant correlation between productive thinking skills and problem-solving skills among university youth. In addition, there were no statistically significant differences between the average scores of university youth, rural and urban sample members, with regard to the skill (fluency), where the value of (T) was not significant at the significance level of 0.05. It also proved that there were no statistically significant differences between the mean scores of university youth the rural and urban sample members with respect to the skill (flexibility), where the value of (t) was not significant at the significance level of 0.05.
 
 
 

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