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The present study aims at knowing the effectiveness of an active learning-based-strategy in decreasing psychological burning and developing the verbal interaction skills of secondary stage teachers of psychology.To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher has formed the Experimental group to include 30 male and female teachers of psychology at the secondary stage in the New Valley. They were divided into two parts; the first part consisted of 15 teachers;out of them, 7 had less experience and 8 had more experience. The other part consisted of 15 teachers also: 8 had less experience and 7 had more experience. The researcher found that these teachers had a great deal of psychological burning, and they suffered a decrease in verbal interacting skills.. The researcher used the descriptive approach and the semi-experimental approach. He also prepared research tools which included the psychological burning questionnaire, verbal interaction skills list, and the teacher's guide The study results showed that, after the experimental group used the collective thinking strategy in teaching psychology, there was a negative correlative relationship between the averages of the teachers' scores in the psychological burning questionnaire and their scores in the verbal interaction skills list. Results also indicated hat there was a statistically significant difference in psychological burning between the averages of the experimental group scores in the pre and post tests, on the side of the post test. Furthermore, there was a statistically significant difference in the verbal interaction skills between the averages of the experimental group scores in the pre and post tests, on the side of the post test. Results also showed that there was a statistically significant difference between the averages of the scores of the males and females in psychological burning on the side of the males. Also, there is a statistically significant difference between teachers who had less experience and those who had more experience in psychological burning, on the side of those who had less experience. Also there was a statistically significant difference between the averages of the scores of males and females in the verbal interaction skills, on the side of the females. There was also a statistically significant difference between teachers who had less experience and those who had more experience in verbal interaction skills, on the side of those who had more experience.

TOURISM ACTIVITY IN THE SOUTH OF WEST BANK/PALESTINE (AN ANALYTICAL STUDY) By Gassan kasem Rasheed Omar Supervisor D. Ahmed Ali Khashman. ABSTRACT This study aims to analyze tourism activity in the southern West Bank (Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron and Jericho), and explores, as well, tourist attraction in the area. It aims to highlight the emportance of both natural and human potentials available as tourist attractions that contribute to achieve economic benfits. Moreover this study attempts to identify tourists charactaerstics in respect of their arrival, their socio-economic and demographic characterstics, in addition to addressing the problems they have faced during their visit to the area with aview to providing the most appropriate solutions. The aim of this study also to shed light on the reality of tourism ifrastracture and services provided in the area, attempting to gouge their ability to meet the demands needs of the tourist market currently and in the future, and tourists satisfaction toward them.It also defints the problems that citzen usually face because of tourists activities trying to provide sutable solutions. To achieve the above objectives two different kinds of questionnaires were distributed. The first was directed to tourists to answer questions related to nationality, age, educational level, purpose of visit, sources of information, and the level of satisfaction of their visit. While the second questionnaire was distributed to citizens in the study area in order to measure their level of involvement in tourist, their evaluation of the standards of problems they suffer. Data were analyzed by using the statistical package (SPSS) to produce the ratios, means and cross tabulation, Chi square were also used. The study concludes that the dominant tourism group visiting the area were of European nationalities while the Americans ranked second. The area of sothern West Bank witnesses active religious tourism, as the most dominant type of tourism where religious factors onsititute principle motivation for visit reachire apercentage of 55.9% for all tourism groups.The study shown that the age of tourism groups ranges from 40 and below69%. Tourists get information about the study from avariety of sources, namely: friends, relatives,internetand religious resources. The study also explain obstacles facing tourists in the fields of security, cleanness and lack of illustrative tourist guidelines.citizens as concluded in the study, encourage tourism in the area directing their children to complete their study and work in the field of tourism. As aresult of the tourism activity,citizens face problems with reg and the rise in the prices of foods and drinks in addition to increasing pressure on services. Finaly the study recommends utiling the natural, historical, more attention shoud paid by the all kind of media in promoting tourism. and human potentioals of earea, and make who have money work at tourism levl, and give also study the tourism services and what they want, making available planning and effect to ecrese the tourists on the encome, finaly to develop and encrese such as university.