أثر الواقع التدريسي في قبول التطور البيولوجي لدى طلبة الصف العاشر الأساسي في الأردن

Abstract EN

Biological evolution is one of the most crucial issues in the history of science.

Therefore, the main problem in teaching lies in the students’ acceptance of its ideas.

This study aims to identify the impact of current teaching approaches on the Jordanian students' acceptance of the unit titled "The origin and evolution of living organisms.” The participants of the study were 488 students enrolled in the academic year of 2011/2012 AD.

The participants were assessed using a scale consisted of 30 items distributed on six areas: the evolution of the earth's life, the emergence of life, the emergence of species, evidence of evolution, evolution mechanisms, and human evolution.

Results revealed a positive impact for the current teaching on the students' acceptance of the biological evolution in all fields except for the human evolution, and the impact was greater among males than females.

Results also showed a greater impact among students with high level of achievement on the areas which are less sensitive to the religious beliefs such as (the evolution of the earth).

However, they showed less acceptance of the fields which are mostly sensitive to the religious beliefs such as the (human evolution.) The study recommended further studies to be conducted on the students' acceptance of biological evolution, and the contexts in which they accept its ideas and how these ideas are related to their religious beliefs regarding the concept of creation.

Key words: Biological evolution, organic evolution, Darwinism, tenth grade, science curriculum, Biology, the Jordanian curriculum