The extent to which the textbooks of General Science for the upper primary stag at Palestin meet international standard

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the extent
to which the textbooks of General Science for the
upper primary stag at Palestin meet international
standard. The study deals with the two General
Science textbooks for the ninth and tenth grades
which are currently taught at the Palestinian public
schools. The two textbooks have (515) pages. The
study sample involves 10 % of the units which
were selected according to the stratified random
method. The researcher has employed two tools to
analyze the content of the two books in accordance
to international standards. The first tool consists of
three topics for each one, the features indicating its
presence in the books were described. The content of
the study sample was analyzed and the frequencies as
well as the percentages of the scientific aspects and
topics involved in the content of the two textbooks
were calculated.
The study came up with the following
conclusions:
The two textbooks of General Science for both
the ninth and tenth grades involved to a high extent
the following aspect respectively:
♦♦ The aspect of concept integration with the
scientific progresses, the aspect of science as
an concept integration with the investigative
process, the aspect of science history and nature
, the aspect of science from an individual and a
social view, and finally the aspect of science and
technology.
♦♦ The two analyzed textbooks involved to a great
extent biology, physics ,and finally geology and
space study which were limited to the content of
the ninth grade science book only.