Content Evaluation of The Sixth Grade’s Science Textbook of The Elementary School in Terms of The Amount of Attention to The Problem Solving Stages Based on Shannon's Entropy Technique
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PhD Student in Curriculum Planning, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
Abstract
Students’ academic performance is greatly influenced by their ability to solve a problem, because success in school depends on the abilities that understanding and speeding in doing homework and students’ perception of the form of the problem and the way to solve it are the most important. The purpose of this study is to examine the amount of attention to the steps of the problem solving in the science textbook of the sixth grade in years 2018 and 2019. In this study, a quantitative content analysis method was used to analyze the text and pictures of the textbook. Moreover, Shannon's entropy method was used to analyze the importance of problem solving. The coding method was used to calculate reliability. The analysis showed that all steps of the problem solving in texts and pictures (the problem, data collecting, hypothesis making, hypothesis testing and the result) have been noticed in the sixth science textbook. The results also confirmed that among the steps of the problem solving, data collecting and conclusion steps were the most and least important.
Zarei, S., Mousavi Amjad, S. M., & Azizi Mahmoodabad, M. (2019). Content Evaluation of The Sixth Grade’s Science Textbook of The Elementary School in Terms of The Amount of Attention to The Problem Solving Stages Based on Shannon's Entropy Technique. Research in Elementary Education, 1(1), 51-62.
MLA
Sirous Zarei; Seyyed Mehdi Mousavi Amjad; Mehran Azizi Mahmoodabad. "Content Evaluation of The Sixth Grade’s Science Textbook of The Elementary School in Terms of The Amount of Attention to The Problem Solving Stages Based on Shannon's Entropy Technique". Research in Elementary Education, 1, 1, 2019, 51-62.
HARVARD
Zarei, S., Mousavi Amjad, S. M., Azizi Mahmoodabad, M. (2019). 'Content Evaluation of The Sixth Grade’s Science Textbook of The Elementary School in Terms of The Amount of Attention to The Problem Solving Stages Based on Shannon's Entropy Technique', Research in Elementary Education, 1(1), pp. 51-62.
VANCOUVER
Zarei, S., Mousavi Amjad, S. M., Azizi Mahmoodabad, M. Content Evaluation of The Sixth Grade’s Science Textbook of The Elementary School in Terms of The Amount of Attention to The Problem Solving Stages Based on Shannon's Entropy Technique. Research in Elementary Education, 2019; 1(1): 51-62.
