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چكيده لاتين :

We describe an algorithm visualization tool for Artificial Intelligence (AI) searching algorithms. We have noticed that students are experiencing difficulties in understanding Artificial Intelligent searching algorithms and developed a tool to help students overcome these difficulties. The tool support three mode types: the usual single step mode for assistance in learning the individual steps of an algorithm, undo last step mode and all steps mode for visualising qualitative behaviour and facilitating comparisons between different algorithms and heuristic functions. An evaluation study was done to investigate the effect of using the visualization tools on the performance of AI senior students in Al-Azhar University, Gaza. The results indicated that there is an advantage of using visualization tools over traditional method of teaching. Furthermore, the study indicated that visualization tools improved the performance of students in AI searching algorithms exam. The study showed a strong relationship between student performance in exams and students evaluation of visualization tools.