Abstract
The study aimed at measuring the impact of the open-ended questions along with lengthening wait
time in explaining the unit of Islamic Jurisprudence prescribed in the book of Islamic education for the tenth
grade and its relationship to the achievement and higher-order thinking skills.
The study consisted of 60 students in the tenth grade in Arjan Secondary School for Girls in
Amman Borough Directorate during the first semester of the academic year 2014-2015. The students were
chosen intentionally and distributed equally and randomly on the study groups (the control group and the
experimental group).
The researcher has used the quasi-experimental method and has also built two tools for the study,
the first tool is an achievement test, and the second is higher-order thinking skills (analysis, synthesis, and
evaluation) to measure a variable effect (open ended questions with a waiting time of 5 seconds) on the
variables of achievement and higher thinking skills.
The study results showed that the arithmetic average for the experimental group that learned using
open-ended question, with different cognitive levels along with a wait time of 5 seconds was the highest,
amounting to (20.57), while the control group that learned using close questions with the normal wait time
amounted to (15.27(. Moreover, it showed the presence of statistically significant differences between the
averages of the two sets of performance differences study on the post-test and on the higher thinking skills
test, in favor of the experimental group.