The level of teaching competencies of middle school science teachers and their relationship to students' self-learning

Abstract

The current research aims to find out the extent to which science teachers in the intermediate stage possess teaching competencies and their relationship to self-learning among students for the academic year (2022-2023), which required the two researchers to build research tools after reviewing previous relevant studies, so they built a measure of teaching competencies It consists of 28 items distributed over three areas: planning, implementation, and evaluation. As for the self-learning scale, it consists of (20) items. The arithmetic mean of science teachers is (93.43) and the standard deviation is (33.10), while the hypothetical mean was (84). When comparing the arithmetic mean of the research sample with the hypothetical mean of the scale and using the t-test, it appeared that the calculated t-value was (2.19), which is greater of the tabular value (1.67), and this result indicates that it is statistically significant at the level of significance (0.05), as well as the presence of statistically significant differences according to the teaching competencies at the level of significance (0.05) in the gender variable (male, female) and in favor of teachers The arithmetic mean of science teachers appeared (103.00), while for female teachers it was (83.87), and among the results of the research also the middle school students’ possession of self-learning, as the arithmetic mean of middle school students was (35.5) and the standard deviation was (11). While the hypothetical mean was (40), and when comparing the arithmetic mean of the research sample with the hypothetical mean of the scale and using the t-test, it appeared that the calculated t-value was (3.01), which is greater than the tabular value (1.67), and this result indicates that it is statistically significant at the level of Significance (0.05), as well as there are statistically significant differences according to self-learning and in favor of the students, as the arithmetic average of the students reached (40.33), while the correlation that the science teachers possess for the intermediate stage and self-learning among the students was good and direct, as the arithmetic average of the teaching competencies reached (33.10), while the arithmetic mean for self-learning was (11.49), meaning that the higher the teachers' teaching competencies, the greater the students' motivation for self-learning. In light of this, the two researchers recommended paying attention to model teachers and creating a program for exchanging experiences between typical and regular schools from time to time, and using modern teaching aids that help students to self-learning, giving homework, and urging students to use the Internet to increase their information.