Designing the Curriculum of Virtual Schools in the Second Period of Secondary School (Khaf City - Razavi Khorasan)

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reza  vala ¹ (curriculum planning,Educational Science,Islamic Azad University ,roudhen, Tehran,Iran)
Ali Reza  Zanganeh ² (Curriculum planning,Educational Science faculty,Islamic Azad university ,roudhen, Tehran, Iran)
alaeddin  etemad ahari ³ (Roodehen Azad University, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Counseling, Roodehen, Iran)

Received: 2022-06-12 Accepted : 2022-06-10 Published : 2022-11-01

Keywords: interaction, virtual education, Curriculum Design, virtual schools, diverse evaluation,

Abstract :

There are many factors that entail avoiding going to physical schools. Then virtual schooling is a challenge nowadays. To respond to ‘What is the curriculum of virtual schools in the second period of secondary school?’ in a mixed exploratory method in this study, the validity and reliability of coding were verified via credibility, dependability, confirmability and transferability criteria. The questionnaire validity was approved by the experts and its reliability by Cronbach’s α of 0.70. The questionnaire was given to 152 high school participant teachers in Khaf. The validity and reliability of the curriculum content, evaluation, learning-teaching flows, presentation strategies, and suitability was verified by factor loading (above 0.50) and significance level (above 1.96); the virtual curriculum components’ coefficient of determination, predictive power of the model, and Goodness of Fit were acceptable. The findings imply the development of an in-depth hardware and software for the required virtual infrastructure across the country.

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