reza ebdam; Abbas Gholtash; fayeze Nateqi
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to design and validate a curriculum based on general competency for Secondary Theoretical School. The research method is exploratory mixed whose data were collected in a field method using a questionnaire. The statistical population included curriculum planning specialists ...
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The purpose of this study was to design and validate a curriculum based on general competency for Secondary Theoretical School. The research method is exploratory mixed whose data were collected in a field method using a questionnaire. The statistical population included curriculum planning specialists and all teachers and experts of theoretical high school in Fars province. The statistical sample was selected in a quantitative section in two stages. At first, 10 curriculum planning specialists were purposefully selected and then from all teachers and experts of theoretical high school in Fars province who were experts in the field of curriculum planning, 80 persons as Statistical sample were selected by simple random sampling. The measurement tool for data collection was a qualitative questionnaire including a deductive content analysis in the qualitative stage and a researcher-made questionnaire in the quantitative stage. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis with deductive categorization system and quantitative methods including factor analysis using SPSS software. The qualitative findings of the designed model confirmed the characteristics related to the main elements of purpose, content, method and evaluation, and the quantitative findings indicated the validity of the designed model. Therefore, it can be concluded that the curriculum based on general competence for the secondary theoretical high school in this study can be used in the new educational system.
