A master's thesis from the College of Education for Human Sciences at the University of Basra examined the effectiveness of an educational program based on combining Spotlight strategies and probing questions on achievement and retention of information in the science subject for fifth-grade primary school students. The thesis, presented by student Nuha Hassan, aimed to demonstrate the effectiveness of an educational program based on combining Spotlight strategies and probing questions on achievement and retention of information in the science subject for fifth-grade primary school students. The thesis included results showing that students in the experimental group, who studied according to the educational program, outperformed students in the control group, who studied the same subject using the traditional method, in achievement and retention
