The effect of using the cognitive apprenticeship strategy in teaching biology on development of biological concepts and scientific sense for secondary stage students

Helal Alosaimi, Hamid

doi:10.21608/edusohag.2019.56057

The effect of using the cognitive apprenticeship strategy in teaching biology on development of biological concepts and scientific sense for secondary stage students

Document Type : Original Article

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Hamid Helal Alosaimi

Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction Taif University, Saudi Arabia

10.21608/edusohag.2019.56057

Abstract

The aim of this study is to Identify the effect of using the cognitive apprenticeship strategy in teaching biology on development of biological concepts and scientific sense for secondary stage students in Makkah. The study was followed by the experimental method, The sample consisted of (48) students from 1^st secondary grade students. They were randomly selected and divided into two groups, a controlled group and an experimental group. The controlled group studied the biology course traditionally, while the experimental group studied the same course using cognitive apprenticeship. Two tools were used to collect the data: biology concepts test and Scientific sense scale.
The results showed that there were statistically significant differences at (α = 0.05) between the mean scores of the experimental and control groups students in biology concepts test and scientific sense. And this difference is in favor of the students of the experimental group who studied using cognitive apprenticeship.

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