A proposed Training Program Based on the Requirements of E-learning to Develop the Self-efficacy of Science Teachers in the Middle School and its Impact on the Development of Conceptual Understanding and the Trend Towards Self-Learning Among their Students

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Curriculum and Instruction Department, College of Education, King Khalid University, KSA.

Abstract

The aim of the research is to know the preparation of a proposed training program based on the requirements of e-learning to develop the self-efficacy of science teachers at the intermediate stage. Its impact on developing conceptual comprehension and the tendency towards self-learning among their students was known. To achieve this, the descriptive approach was used in preparing the list of e-learning requirements, in the light of which a training program was prepared for the development of self-efficacy among science teachers for the intermediate stage. Preparing the self-efficacy scale, the conceptual comprehension test, and the self-learning skills scale for first-year intermediate students. The experimental approach has two different designs: a quasi-experimental one-group design with a pre-post measurement to know the impact of the proposed training program based on e-learning requirements on the development of self-efficacy among middle school science teachers. A quasi-experimental design with two groups, one experimental and the other controlled by a pre-post measurement, to know the effect of the proposed training program based on e-learning requirements on the development of conceptual comprehension and self-learning skills for first-grade intermediate students. A random sample of middle school science teachers from the original research community was selected as one experimental group to implement the training program prepared in this research. And measuring their self-efficacy before and after. The results also found: There are statistically significant differences at the significance level (0.05) between the mean scores of the students of the experimental and control groups in the post application of the conceptual comprehension test and the measure of attitude toward self-learning, in favor of the experimental group. And the existence of a significant impact of the proposed training program based on e-learning requirements to develop the self-efficacy of middle school science teachers on the development of conceptual comprehension and the tendency towards self-learning among their students. In light of these results, some recommendations and suggestions were developed.
 

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