The effect of Abaq (UCMAS) training program on enhancing the processing speed of information among school students in Sudan

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to investigate the possible effect of Abaq (UCMAS) program on the enhancement of speed of processing information of math and intelligence tests among pupils of basic education in Khartoum State. To achieve this aim, the causality comparative method was employed. The study sample consists of 818 basic school pupils from Khartoum State both males (411) and females (407), 418 of whom were an experimental group, and 400 a controlling one from age groups 10-14 year olds. For data collection, 5 tools were used, namely, Primary Data Form, comprehensive and partial tests of math, The Standard Progressive Matricess and Similarities of the WISC-111. The study showed that there were (a) significant statistical differences on point (0,001) level in the speed of processing the comprehensive and partial math tests between the experimental groups who were trained on UCMAS and the controlled ones who were not favoring the earlier (b) significant statistical differences on point (0,001) level in the speed of processing performance of the Standard Progressive Matrices and Similarities of the WISC- 111 between the experimental groups who were trained on UCMAS and the controlled ones who were not favoring the earlier. Finally the study raised a question why not to learn lessons from the fast processing of intelligence of Japanese pupils who obtain high performance in intelligence as well as math and who train on Abaq (soroban) in the era of femtosecond.

Keywords: Abaq Programme, UCMAS, speed of processing information, femtsecond, Japan, Sudan