التوجه نحو التنمية المهنية المستدامة لمدرسي علم الاحياء في المرحلة الثانوية
Abstract
The aim of the current research is to identify the level of orientation towards sustainable professional development for teachers of biology at the secondary level. The research was limited to biology teachers at the secondary level who are affiliated with the General Directorate of Al-Qadisiyah Education, and for the academic year 2021-2022. The descriptive research method was adopted, and the size of the research sample was (400) teachers of biology at the secondary level, they were chosen at random. To achieve the goal of the research, the researchers prepared a scale of orientation towards sustainable professional development, which in its final form consisted of (50) items. The validity and constancy of the scale were verified, as the apparent validity of the scale and its logical validity were verified, and the construction validity of the scale was verified through indicators of the discriminatory strength of the scale’s items, and the internal consistency of the scale, which was verified by revealing the relationship between the degree of the items and the total degree of the scale, and the relationship between the degree of the items with the degree of the field to which it belongs, and the relationship between the degree of the field and the total degree of the scale. The constancy of the scale was also extracted by the half-segmentation method, as well as according to the Alpha-Cronbach equation. The data was statistically analyzed and processed, and the t-test was used for one sample. The results showed that the level of orientation towards sustainable professional development was low for biology teachers at the secondary level. In light of the results, the researchers recommended that sustainable professional development programs and methods should meet the actual training needs of teachers, and that teachers participate in planning for them. They also suggested conducting similar studies for the current research in other topics such as chemistry and physics.
