The Effectiveness of a Proposed Training Program Based on Employing Some Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Developing Authentication Skills of Prophetic Hadith among Students of Islamic Studies Department at the Faculty of Education for Boys at Al-Azhar University in Cairo

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Department of Curriculum and Teaching Methods - College of Education for Boys, Al-Azhar University, Cairo.

Abstract

This research aimed at establishing a training program based on some AI applications to train students of Islamic Studies Department at the Faculty of Education for Boys in Cairo on the skills of authenticating the Prophetic Hadith. Descriptive method was used in identifying the skills necessary to authenticate the Prophetic Hadith. The researcher used the Prophetic Hadith Authentication Skills Scale and the quasi-experimental method to administer the training program. The sample consisted of (50) students who were assigned equally to two groups; the control one, in which students studied the traditional authentication course, and the experimental one, in which students studied the authentication through the proposed training program based on some AI applications. The results showed statistically significant differences at the (0.05) between the average scores of the students of the experimental and control groups in the post-measurement of the Prophetic Hadith Authentication Scale in favor of the experimental group. The research recommended holding training courses on how to benefit from AI applications in teaching religious sciences, including some AI applications in religious sciences curricula, and developing the content of these religious curricula in light of them.

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