A suggested training program for primary school teachers based on the philosophy of building the multidisciplinary curriculum (Discover) and its impact on developing skills for using alternative assessment and the attitude towards reform movements in science curricula and the performance of their pupils

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Teaching methods and curricula department- faculty of education- Assuit university

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The aim of the research is to know the impact of a training program for primary school teachers on developing skills using alternative assessment, and their attitude towards science reform movements, and measuring the impact of this on the performance of their pupils. The research adopted the quasi-experimental approach with one group (25) teachers, and with the two groups control and experimental groups for a sample of (30) pupils. The results showed that there were statistically significant differences between the average grades of teachers in the two applications, the pre and post applications, in each of the attitude scale, and observation card for skills of using the alternative assessment in favor of the post application, and there was a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the pupils of the two groups in the post application of the rubric in favor of the experimental group.

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