Building A proposed Educational Program Based on Space Education and Measuring its Effectiveness in Developing the Concepts and Skills Associated with it among Eleventh Grade Students in the Sultanate of Oman

Abstract

The current study aimed to build a proposed educational program based on space education and measure its effectiveness in developing the concepts and skills associated with it, in addition to measuring the correlational relationship and the predictive dependency relationship between the amount of growth in the development of concepts and skills among the study sample, which consisted of (30) female students from Eleventh grade students from a school in Buraimi Governorate. The study followed a quasi-experimental quantitative approach with a one-group design. To measure the effectiveness of the program. The study data was collected using two tools: the cognitive achievement test; For space concepts and testing situations; for space skills, after ensuring the necessary validity and reliability values. The results of this study revealed: There were statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α≤0.01) between the averages of the study group’s scores in the pre- and post-measurements of the test of cognitive achievement of space concepts, and the test of attitudes of space skills among the study sample. The difference between the two means reached the total calculations in the pre- and post-measurements of the two dependent variables. (43.74,50.06) respectively in favor of the dimensional measurement for each. The effect size for the two adopted variables was (7.47, 6.53), respectively, which is a very high effect size, and the percentage of Black’s coefficient of adjusted gain for the two adopted variables was (1.66, 1.49), respectively, which is a high percentage. Which indicates the effectiveness of the proposed program. A number of conclusions were drawn, and a set of recommendations and proposals were presented.