Virtual Science Curriculum Design for First Year of Secondary Education (Ninth Grade)

Subject Areas : psycology

fereshteh  afkari ¹ (assistant of curriculum)
Gholam Ali  Ahmadi ² (دانشیار گروه برنامه ریزی درسی ،دانشگاه تربیت دبیر رجائی)
seyedeh Fatemeh  shamshirgarn ³ (ph.d.student of azad university.science and reaserching branch)

Received: 2019-04-27 Accepted : 2020-01-16 Published : 2019-12-22

Keywords: Information and communication technology (ICT), Curriculum Design, science curriculum, Virtual Curriculum, Science Curriculum of Junior High School,

Abstract :

The present study aimed to design a virtual curriculum of the 9th grade (1st high school) science course. The research method is a combined or mixed with an applied purpose. The method used within this research is an applied method in terms of its purpose and in terms of its implementation, it is a combination or a mixed type. The statistical population under study were the science textbook and the teacher’s guidebook. The components and indicators were both extracted from the junior high school science textbook and the teacher’s guidebook. The validity of the designed curriculum’s content was confirmed by 14 curriculum experts. Likewise, its reliability was determined through a researcher-made questionnaire which was handed to them; The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was estimated to be 0.98.The virtual curriculum of ninth-grade science was designed with regards to the curriculum elements: curriculum objectives, content preparation and organization, designing learning activities, teaching methods, and evaluation methods