Evaluating the Sciences and Islamic Education Textbooks of the Secondary Level in Jordan in Light of Modern Standards of the Educational Environment

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluating the textbooks of sciences and Islamic education of the
secondary level in Jordan based on the modern standards of educational environment, and the
study tried to answer the following questions:
-What are the modern standards of the educational environment that should be available in the
books of sciences and Islamic education of the secondary level in Jordan?
- What is the compatibility degree of the textbooks of sciences and Islamic education of the
secondary level with the modern standards of the educational environment?
The study sample consisted of the same study population; it’s the textbooks of sciences and
Islamic education of the secondary level Released by the Ministry of Education for the
academic year 2012/2013 AD. And to achieve the objectives of the study, the Researchers have
developed a tool to measure and analyze included seven axes and twenty-seven contemporary
standards to the environmental education at the secondary level. The tool was presented to
committee of specialists to make sure of its sincerity, Extraction reliability coefficient using
(Holsti) stability equation , so the reliability coefficient reaching over time90.1%) and by
individuals (86.9%), which is acceptable for the purposes of the study, and this was as an
answer to the first question of the study.