Author name:
هيفاء عبد الهادي نوري الغانم
Supervisor name:
جاسب عبد الحسين مشاري | مظفر عبد الصمد عبد الرزاق
Abstract:
The education process is one of the most exploitational processes in any society whether advanced or developmental. This is because this process is essentially connected with the exploitation of human · power. So, countries all over the world, including Ar~bcountries, paid much attention to education. Education purposes ha\le been various, and the societies points of view towards the function of education differed according to the difference in the philosophy of educafron in any country. The educational sector in Iraq has witnessed a considerable develop1nents in books, curricula, teaching techniques, due to the significance the educational process has in the exploitation and the achievement of the largest possible benefit. This is done via preparing and qualifying our human power from the youth to increase· their local and national profit.Improving the educational process is one of the contemporary educators who plan to achieve better learni.ng that it is aid who have become 111ore aware of the possibility of using teaching techniques and teaching aids to develop methods of teaching. Teaching process is a process which aims at making certain changes in the learners' behavior. These changes may include developing knowledge, the acquisition skills, and scientific attitudes, developing the capacity of scientific thinking, and developing the tendencies of appreciating knowledge and scholars.The instructor is considered m all the world countries as the basic cornerstone on which societies live in the present and the future. He is the link that transfers the students from their early stages at school into the stages of production and progress. Inspite of the great importance of the instructor, the researches in this field are rare and those related to teaching techniques are more rare. Hence, we could see the instructor follow the traditional Western models as related to form, content, and methodology without arriving at their level in most cases.College of Education is one of the important specialized institutions. Colleges of education prepare teachers in humanistic and scientific specialization who are professionally qualified. Since the teacher is the basic cornerstone whom college of education strives toprepare to perfonn his social, scientific, and educational message as best as he could, the curricula to prepare hin1 demand too much attention from the people concerned.· Curriculmn is one of the elements that the specialized people in ininistries try to develop. Since the syllabuses and the teaching curricula, including physics curricula, are prove to fast changes owing to the increasing technical developments in the world, and owing to meeting the society's needs, the development plans, and the civilizational development, it de1nands the teaching supervisors to constantly conduct an evaluation to the plans and curricula by the specialized supervisors in the field to make development in the scientific level. Evaluating the curriculum means deciding its suitability, i.e. the educational value of the curriculum to improve it or to keep on using it and expand its application or to change it.The study aims at constructing an evaluation instrmnent to evaluate the curriculum of quantum mechanics for fourth year students at physics department in college of education from the students' point of view. And it aims at evaluating this curriculum toexamine points of strength and weaknesses. Quantum mechanics is one of the curricula at physics department and is taught at fourth year. The research confined itself to fourth year students at physics departinent in the colleges of education in Baghdad and Basrah for the academic year 2000/2001 fron1 both sexes.In light of the answers of the open questionnaire sample, the researcher classified the answers according to their fields depending on the content of the item.After fonning the items and their fields primarily, they were exposed to a con11nittee of specialized experts in curricula and methodology consists often experts to check the suitability of the tool to evaluate the syllabus of quantum mechanics subject and to achieve the face validity ·to check the range of the clarity and the understandability of the items. The members of the face validity group all agreed that the items were all clear and understandable which were (77) items except so1ne ones. The percentage of agreement was 80%. to accept or refuse the iten1s by the researcher. The researcher registered the tool balance through these alternatives before each item to answer depending on Likert's triple balance which was (agree, not sure, don't agree).To get the distinguishing power of the tool, it has been applied to a sample of fourth year students at the Dept. of physics, College of education, Baghdad University consists of (100) male and female students. This sample has been randomly chosen. The studentsrepresent the basic final research sample, 50 percent of the original research group.After getting the answer, it has been arranged from up to down, from the highest mark to the lowest mark. Then 27o/o of the papers that get the highest and the lowest marks. i.e each group included (27) papers by using (T - test) 2nd tested, to find out the differences between the highest and the lowest group of each item of the tool. It appeared that all the tool items are distinguished except some of the items. To ensure the validity and the compatibility of the tool ite1ns, the researcher analyzed the distinguishing sample answers which were (100) individuals by using pearson's coefficient to know the connection among the individuals marks on each item of the tool and the whole mark of the field. The statistical analysis results show that all the coefficients of statistical value except some iten1s. As such, the tool with its ( 52) items and the fields with its ( 4) fields are the final form of the tool.The researcher concluded that there is one element (field) achieved, which is the teaching method. field of the curriculum elements, whereas there are three ele1nents not achieved which are the field o - f ( educational objectives, content, and evaluation). So, theresearcher suggests that some modifications and additions to. curriculwn are den1anded as basic background to quantmn mechanics syllabuses at 1st, 2nd, and 3rd stages to achieve some sort of continuity to curriculum and to reduce the curriculum because it is very enlarged one, and chapter one of the textbook should be aseparate chapter for mathematics that the teacher needs to teach this subject. The researcher recommended that an evaluative study of this study is necessary to every curriculun1 of the physics dept. to clear the way to the people in charge to see the good points and the weaknesses in these curricula to treat the weaknesses to develop and i1nprove the curricula.
