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ِِA recently- conducted study revealed that the skills beyond knowledge help an individual to learn successfully, highlighting the attention of those in charge of curriculum planning to let courses include activities stimulate thinking of beyond knowledge rather than focusing only on the knowledge.

 Additionally, the study aims to working on the implementation of appropriate cognitive processes to achieve their purpose, to include settings for these operations, planning to learn a task, monitoring the operations of understanding, and the assessment of the extent of progress towards achieving the goal. It targets reducing the difficulties the learner may face.

This came during a scientific study entitled "The level of Beyond Cognitive Thinking", which was conducted on a sample of students at the colleges of King Khalid University, Bisha branch. It was presented by the professor of educational psychology at King Khalid Universaity, Dr. Nafez Nayef Jacob, who explained that, the beyond cognitive thinking makes the learner more aware of his cognitive operations, which helps him to become an organized learner.

He added, "Progress and underdevelopment are two issues with intellectual roots, and are expressed through what the individual reached in learning and abilities to express what he learned out of information, values, skills, trends and attitudes."

Jacob also stressed on the student's mental abilities in dealing with the concepts, information processing, the formation of his knowledge structure under the guidance of his teacher, instead of receiving the information ready from the teacher, and retrieving them when asked, and this makes the student feels confident in his abilities and ready to launch his inner potentials. He pointed out that cognitive learning theories have sought to move with education away from memorization to understanding and creativity through the use of cognitive strategies.

The study also handled a vital subject consistent with the global trends of interest to the development of the skills of the beyond knowledge thinking skills, and in line with the local recommendations of Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia, in addition to the interest in higher-level thinking skills, which has become one of the goals that attracts educators interest due to its importance in developing the learner's personality aspects in all sides.

In light of the results which showed a statistically- significant difference in the idea of the organizing knowledge, attributed to a course of study, and in favor of scientific disciplines, the study, which contributes to the development of training, recommended the use of this level of thinking, because of its positive impact on the academic achievement, and to take advantage of students' high level thinking, in addition to assigning a systematic and extracurricular activities, designed for this purpose. The study stressed on paying attention to the strategies of the beyond cognitive thinking, and to be taught in the school curriculum.

The study also recommended to prepare programs that seek to developing the beyond cognitive thinking, and take advantage of them in social, psychological and academic compatibility, as well as teacher's intensive and continuous training, before and beyond service on this thinking methods to be used in the classroom.

Finally, the study recommended the provision of training programs that allow students to possess the skills of dialogue and control agitation, which helps to acquire the dimensions of the beyond cognitive thinking.

It is noteworthy that the study sample consisted of 150 students, who were selected randomly, so the researcher, using the image of the Arabized scale of the beyond knowledge thinking of each of Cherau and Denson.