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J Except Educ 1397, __(154): 65-74 |
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Keyhan J, Valizadeh S. Evaluation of Experimental Sciences Curriculum for Sixth Grade Students with Mental Disability. J Except Educ 2019; 5 (154) :65-74
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Background: Evaluation of curriculum of students with mental disability for catching predicted goals and effectiveness of this curriculum is critical. The aim of this research was to evaluate experimental sciences curriculum for sixth grade students with mental weakness in Urmia city.
Method: This was a descriptive survey and its statistical society was consisted of all teachers and managers of sixth grade elementary special schools in Urmia city which were 30 people and since their number was few, census method (selection of total society) was used for sample selection. Data gathering tool was author made questionnaire according to research questions whose validity was verified by special school curriculum experts and their stability was calculated by Cronbach’s alpha (0.86). For data analysis, frequency calculation, percentage, and weighting and valuing methods were used.
Results: Analyzing the viewpoints of teachers and managers of elementary special schools showed that the quality of factors in the evaluated curriculum, including clarity of goals, content sufficiency, environment, and education time, were good. But the factor of professional competence of teachers with average of 2.66 was in the worst compared to the averages of other factors.
Conclusion: This research can be a step towards attention to educational issues and curriculums for students with mental weakness at elementary schools and focuses on the necessity of special attention to use interested and skilled teachers and holding educational workshops in order to retrain teachers.
Method: This was a descriptive survey and its statistical society was consisted of all teachers and managers of sixth grade elementary special schools in Urmia city which were 30 people and since their number was few, census method (selection of total society) was used for sample selection. Data gathering tool was author made questionnaire according to research questions whose validity was verified by special school curriculum experts and their stability was calculated by Cronbach’s alpha (0.86). For data analysis, frequency calculation, percentage, and weighting and valuing methods were used.
Results: Analyzing the viewpoints of teachers and managers of elementary special schools showed that the quality of factors in the evaluated curriculum, including clarity of goals, content sufficiency, environment, and education time, were good. But the factor of professional competence of teachers with average of 2.66 was in the worst compared to the averages of other factors.
Conclusion: This research can be a step towards attention to educational issues and curriculums for students with mental weakness at elementary schools and focuses on the necessity of special attention to use interested and skilled teachers and holding educational workshops in order to retrain teachers.
Type of Study: Original Article |
Subject:
Mental Retarded
Received: 2019/Jun/Tue | Revised: 2019/Oct/Tue | Accepted: 2019/Jun/Tue | Published: 2019/Jun/Tue | ePublished: 2019/Jun/Tue
Received: 2019/Jun/Tue | Revised: 2019/Oct/Tue | Accepted: 2019/Jun/Tue | Published: 2019/Jun/Tue | ePublished: 2019/Jun/Tue
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