the effectiveness of a physics program based on the theory of information processing to develop deep understanding and analytical thinking and reduce cognitive load among second-year secondary school female students

The current research was to measure the effectiveness of a physics program based on the theory of information processing to develop deep understanding and analytical thinking and reduce cognitive load among second-year secondary school female students. To achieve this; The experimental method with a quasi-experimental design was used for the two groups (experimental and control) on a sample of (72) female students, divided into two groups: an experimental group with a total of (36) female students, studying the unit (Properties of Static Fluids) formulated using the information processing theory, and a control group (36) female students, taught in the usual way, and a deep understanding test was prepared for this, and the two measures: analytical thinking, and cognitive load, which were applied to the two groups before and after during the second semester of the academic year (2023/2024 AD), and the results of the research resulted in extracting a list of dimensions of deep understanding, analytical thinking skills, and dimensions of cognitive load, and the results also showed the existence of statistically significant differences at the level (0.05) between the average scores of the students of the two research groups in the post-application of the deep understanding test, and the two measures: analytical thinking, and cognitive load, in favor of the experimental group, and the adjusted gain rate for "Blake" was acceptable for the growth of deep understanding Analytical thinking and reducing cognitive load, and the size of the program’s impact on the dependent variables was high, and in light of the results, a set of recommendations and proposals were presented.