Evaluating the Seventh Grades Palestinian Science Textbook from Teachers’ Perspective

Evaluating the Seventh Grades Palestinian Science Textbook from Teachers’ Perspective

Mahmoud Ramadan

ramadannajah@yahoo.com

Department of Primary Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine

Received : 14-04-2004 , Accepted : 20-02-2005

Language: Arabic

Abstract

This study aimed at evaluating the Seventh Grades Palestinian Science textbook from teachers’ perspective. The researcher tried to find out the influence of some variables, such as: gender, academic qualification, teachers experience,and the number of training courses that the teacher participated in, on the perspectives of teachers. For the purpose of this study a sample of ( 51) teachers responded to a questionaire consisted of ( 62 ) items divided of the following six domains: general view(layout) of the book, introduction, content, educational techniques, enhancing students attitudes towards science, evaluation questions, Number of lessons, laboratories, and the readability of the book.

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