A teaching model based on the cognitive apprenticeship theory in science education to develop some biological concepts and organizational self-skills among middle school students

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Lecturer of Curricula and Methods of Teaching Science - College of Education - New Valley University

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The purpose of this study was to investigate Effectiveness a teaching model based on the theory of cognitive apprenticeship to develop some biological concepts and organizational self-skills in the science of preparatory school students. The research samples consisted of 60 Students in the second grade preparatory school in one of the schools in Al - Kharga city in the New Valley distributed into1 two groups (experimental and control), with 30 students in each from. Research tools included (1) teaching unit of  "Reproduction and Continuity of Type" planned according to cognitive apprenticeship theory (2) a teacher’s guide of teaching unit of "Reproduction and Continuity of Type", and (3) the biological concepts contained in the selected unit test, and (4) the organizational self-skills scale. The tools of the study were administered using a pre-post design on the study groups, and the experimental group was taught by using a teaching model based on the theory of cognitive apprenticeship and using the traditional method with the control group. The tools of the study were post-administered and the appropriate statistical procedures were used so as to calculate the differences in the means of scores for both the experimental group and the control one. The results of the research indicated that there were statistically significant differences between the average scores of the experimental group and the students of the control group, that the teaching model based on the theory of cognitive apprenticeship was effective in developing some biological concepts and organizational self-skills of the experimental group as compared to the control group.
 

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