Designing a mathematics educational program based on the theory of generative learning for the students of the first state secondary school

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Zahra Alizadeh ¹ , Shahram Vahedi ² , Rahim Badri Gargari ³ , Davoud Tahmasabzadeh Sheikhlar ⁴

1 - Ph.D. candidate in Educational Psychology, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Tabriz University, Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Iran.
2 - Professor of Educational Psychology, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Tabriz University, Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Iran.
3 - Professor of Educational Psychology, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Tabriz University, Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Iran.
4 - Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Tabriz University, Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Iran.

Received: 2023-06-17 Accepted : 2023-08-23 Published : 2024-01-21

Keywords: first state secondary students, generative learning, Mathematics education program,

Abstract :

Learning theories help to design the desired educational programs. Wittrock developed the theory of generative learning, which is one of these theories. In different educational systems, little attention has been paid to the new methods of mathematics education, and one of these methods is education based on the theory of generative learning. The main objective of this research is to develop an educational program for teaching mathematical concepts to first-state secondary school students that will help the students develop a thorough understanding of the educational content of mathematics and in which the student actively participates in the learning process, creates meanings and relationships, and the teacher only serves as a facilitator. Metacomposition and a synthesis-research approach based on the seven-stage Sandelowski-Barroso model were used in this study to look into the research that had been done in this direction. The study area included 57 research articles according to the intended purpose, among which 19 articles and one thesis were selected using the Glynn tool. Concepts extracted from this study were summarised by the open coding method in the form of 131 concepts and 32 sub-categories, which finally resulted in 9 main categories. Then, according to the results obtained, a special math curriculum was designed for the first state secondary school. The content validity of the mathematics education curriculum was obtained using the Laushe method (P = 0.05).

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