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The study aimed to investigate the effective of thinking aloud during working on dynamic tasks related to decision making on performance & motivation within two levels of verbalization, 42 college students participated in the study, divided randomly into three groups. All the groups worked on the dynamic tasks of Networked Fire Chief simulation program (NCF), the first group was thinking aloud by using the level of verbalization that requires verbalize every decision through naming the reasons behind the decision they took over, while working on tasks of the simulation. The second group used thinking aloud by using the level of verbalization that requires verbalize what they had in their minds when they made decision without giving any explanations while working on the same tasks. The third group worked on the same tasks silently. The results indicated that there were differences among the groups, in favor of the control group. The result also indicated that there are no differences between the second & control group that meant thinking aloud by using the level of verbalization that required expressing every decision through naming the reasons behind the decision they took over during working on dynamic tasks relatedtodecision making had affected the performance & motivation in the first group.