The Effectiveness of a Program in Practical Education Based on Active Learning in Developing Teaching Skills, Creative Thinking, and the Attitude Towards the Teaching Profession among Students of the Department of Islamic Studies Curricula at the College of Education - Arhab.

Abstract

The study aims to verify the effectiveness of a proposed program in practical education based on active learning for developing teaching skills among student teachers in the Islamic Studies Department. The researcher employed both descriptive and quasi-experimental approaches and prepared a list of the teaching skills necessary for training Islamic education teachers. She also developed a test that was administered pre- and post-program, after ensuring the validity and reliability of the assessment tools.

The program was applied to fourth-level students in the Islamic Studies Curriculum at the College of Education, Arhab. The sample consisted of 35 female students and 5 male students, who were then divided into two equal groups: the first experimental group (18 female students and 2 male students) and the second control group (17 female students and 3 male students). This study was conducted during the first semester of the 2022-2023 academic year and it yielded several important results, the most significant of which are as follows:

There are statistically significant differences, with a significance level of less than 0.05, between the average scores of student teachers in the experimental and control groups on the post-test for teaching skills overall and for each individual skill, favoring the experimental group that participated in the active learning-based program. The Eta squared value indicates that the impact of the program on developing teaching skills was substantial across all areas, with an effect size of( 0.58), signifying a large effect.