THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING STRATEGY IN DIFFUSING THE CULTURE OF SOCIETAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PARTICIPATION AMONG PREPARATORY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Dr. Talaat El-Sayed Prep. School, Nasr City

2 Faculty of Girls, Ain Shams University

3 Higher Institute of Social Work in Cairo

Abstract

This research aims to develop knowledge and skills of the preparatory stage pupils about societal and environmental participation as well as developing sense of social responsibility for them through the application of a problem-based learning strategy as one of the educational strategies that contribute to providing students with different and diverse problem-solving skills. This is achieved by teaching two units in the Islamic education curriculum for the third middle school, namely (Islamic Values, Islam and Social Systems). The researcher has noticed during her presence as a member in the quality and accreditation team in the school where she works, the students' lack of awareness of the importance of community participation as one of the quality standards adopted by the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Education for Pre-University Education Institutions, in which schools are evaluated and obtained accreditation certificates, added to that, the school's poor contribution to the development of the community surrounding the school A strategy of learning based on solving the problem has been applied the period from 10/2/2020 to 11/3/2020, in Dr. Talaat El-Said Preparatory School, Nasr City. The study relied on the experimental approach using two groups of students, the experimental group and the control group, each group consists of 20 students, and two tools have been adopted to measure the outcome and effectiveness of the strategy used in teaching, namely the achievement test, and a scale of awareness of the importance of societal participation after ensuring their suitability, validity and reliability for application.
The most important results of the study were to ensure the validity of the main hypothesis of the study, which indicates that there are statistically significant differences between the pre and post applications of the experimental and control groups on the scale of awareness of the importance of societal and environmental participation among the students of the preparatory stage, in favor of the post application, at a significant level (0.5).

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