Analysis of the content of the earth science section of experimental science books of the second elementary school based on William Rumi's model

Barahoei, Nour Mohammad; Barahuei Moghadam, Ahamad

Analysis of the content of the earth science section of experimental science books of the second elementary school based on William Rumi's model

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Department of Science Education, Farhangian University, P.O. Box 14665-889, Tehran, Iran

² Experimental Science teacher, Department of Education, Nusrat Abad District, Sistan and Baluchistan Province, Iran

Abstract

The aim of the present research was to investigate and analyze the content of the earth science section of experimental science books of the second elementary school based on William Rumi's content analysis model in the academic year of 1401-1402 in three components: "Text", "Image" and "Question" The statistical population of the research includes the content of the biological sciences section of experimental science books of the fourth, fifth and sixth grades of elementary school. The research method is of an analytical type and to check the data and information appropriate methods of descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage and calculation of the engagement coefficient in each grade for text, questions, and images and then calculating the engagement coefficient of students with the whole Text, pictures and questions are used. Based on the findings of the research, the learner's engagement coefficient in the text, pictures and questions sections in the second elementary school science textbooks' earth science section was 1.14, 0.54 and 0.67, respectively. These results show that based on the model of William Rumi, the earth science content of these books is active in all three parts of text, images and questions.

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