Evaluation of the Formative and Summative Exercises in the Textbooks of the Islamic Education at Primary Education Levels in Jordan.

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the formative and summative activities

contained in the textbooks of Islamic education for grades I, II and III in

Jordan. An analysis instrument has been used. It consists of nine domains.

Each has a number of subordinate levels. The total number of activities that

have been analyzed was (240) activities for the first grade, (251) activities

for the second grade, and (136) activities for the third grade. The study

found that the outcomes of the activities are distributed between cognitive

and psychomotor domains while the lower outcomes are the emotional

ones. Furthermore, there were appropriate instructions in the majority of

activities. In terms of the nature of the activity, the majority of the activities

were individual. As for the impact of difference in grade level in the technical

characteristics of the activities, it was noted that there is independence in the

distribution of frequencies to levels in all the aspects of the instrument except

for the appropriateness of the activity for the grade level. Thus, the study

recommends paying more attention to the diversification of activities’ levels

and giving more focus for the emotional domain. There is also a need for the

creation of innovative and new activities