Analysis of the geology section of middle school science textbooks based on William Rumi's method

Jafari Shoar, Amir Hossein; Dalvand, Reza; Bazobandi, Mohmad Hasan

Analysis of the geology section of middle school science textbooks based on William Rumi's method

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Student of Experimental Science Education Department, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran

² Department of Science Education, Farhangian University, P.O. Box 14665-889, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the aim of analyzing the content of the geology section of middle school science textbooks of the seventh, eighth and ninth grades of 1401 edition from the perspective of being active or inactive using William Rumi's content analysis method. This applied research was done with a descriptive method and in an objective and quantitative way. The statistical population of this research is all the content of the geology section of the middle school science textbooks, which included text, pictures and questions. Also, in order to achieve accurate and reliable results, sampling was not used in this research and the entire content of the book was examined. The results showed that the engagement coefficient with the text in the total of eight chapters of geology of middle school science textbooks is 0.2837, the engagement coefficient with images is 0.4031, and the engagement coefficient with questions is 4.3; which indicates that the textual content of the textbook is inactive and also indicates that the content of both the pictures and questions is active.

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