أثر مشاركة معلمي العلوم في المرحلة المتوسطة في مجتمع الممارسة على درجة تمكينهم

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This paper aimed to identify the effect of middle school science teacher participation in a community of practice on their empowerment level.

A one-group qausi-experiment was used.

The population was all middle school science teacher in Skaka in Saudi Arabia; they were 47 teachers.

However, the sample was 26 of them (55% of the population); and 23 of them completed the experiment.

An instrument was developed and administered to collect the data at the beginning and at the end of the experiment.

This instrument has six dimntions: descision making, professional development, self-effecacy, status, atunummy, and impact.

The duration of the experiment was 17 weeks; through this period of time some activities and discussion were implemented.

The results revealed signigicant differences (α≤0.05) in the totoal score of the instrument and in forudimenstions, which were: professional development, self-effecacy, status, and impact.

The effect size ranged between 0.34 and 0.69.

at the end of this paper, the researchers provided some suggestions and recommedations