The effectiveness of a program based on differentiated education in developing jurisprudential concepts among second-year secondary school students in Sana’a Governorate

Abstract

The research aimed to reveal the effectiveness of differentiated instruction in developing jurisprudential concepts among second-year secondary students in Sana'a Governorate. The researcher used the descriptive approach, the construction and development method in preparing the list of jurisprudential concepts, and the quasi-experimental method in designing the experiment "the design based on two groups: experimental and control", with pre- and post-measurement. The research sample consisted of 80 students from the second year of secondary school in Sana'a Governorate, divided into two equal and equivalent groups: experimental and control. The experimental group was taught using the proposed program based on the differentiated instruction strategy in the second semester of the academic year 2023/2024, while the control group was taught using the usual method. To collect the necessary data for the research, the researcher prepared a jurisprudential concepts test consisting of 50 questions. The research reached several conclusions, the most important of which are: reaching a list of jurisprudential concepts necessary for second-year secondary students in Sana'a Governorate, including 68 sub-concepts under 11 main concepts; the existence of statistically significant differences at a significance level of 0.000 between the mean scores of the experimental and control groups in the post-application of the jurisprudential concepts test, with the differences in favor of the experimental group who learned according to the differentiated instruction strategy. The results also showed that the program based on differentiated instruction is highly effective in developing jurisprudential concepts among the experimental group of second-year secondary students in Sana'a Governorate, as the value of the adjusted gain for the effectiveness in developing jurisprudential concepts was 1.31, which is higher than the value of 1.2 set by Black for high effectiveness. Accordingly, the following recommendations were made: benefiting from the training program prepared by the current research in teaching students in other grades and subjects; and the necessity of including the differentiated instruction strategy among the strategies used in preparing Islamic education teachers and training them on how to use it in teaching the subject.