The effectiveness of the environmental sciences course developed according to the dimensions of sustainable development in developing environmental problem-solving skills and academic self-efficacy among female student teachers at Ain Shams Universit

The research aimed to develop the skills of solving environmental problems and the dimensions of academic self-efficacy among female student teachers at Ain Shams University through teaching the developed environmental sciences course. The experimental method was used in its quasi-experimental design with the design of the control and experimental groups with pre- and post-measurements. The two basic research samples consisted of ( 99) Student teachers for the experimental group from the third year of Chemistry, Arabic, Educational (71) Student teachers for the control group from the third year, Chemistry, English, and Biology, English. They were selected using a systematic random sampling method from the research community and were randomly distributed into two groups, one a control group and the other an experimental group. The measurement tools were the environmental problem solving test and a measure of the dimensions of academic self-efficacy (prepared by the researcher). The results resulted in a significant effectiveness of the environmental sciences course according to the dimensions of academic self-efficacy. Sustainable development (an independent variable) in developing environmental problem-solving skills and the dimensions of academic self-efficacy (two dependent variables), and the existence of a strong correlation between the two dependent variables, as the Pearson correlation coefficient reached (928‚), which is an almost perfect relationship. In light of these results, recommendations and proposals were presented