Content analysis of the biology book for the third intermediate grade with taste

Abstract

  The current research aims to find out the extent to which the biology book of third intermediate grade includes the Generation skills, which required the researcher to prepare the analytical tool represented by a list of Mental skills . The analysis tool was made up the Generation skills Sub-skill with the indicators to indicate them, which by it the biology book was analyzed for the class for the third intermediate grade students for the academic year 2020-2021.

      The researcher used the descriptive approach (content analysis) and relied on the explicit and implicit idea as a registration unit, and one of its findings is that the ratio of including mental skills in a science book were not equal, where the skill of organizing got the highest number of repetitions. The sub-skills of the generation skill obtained frequencies and including percentages distributed as follows. The inference skill got (12) recurrences and a percentage (31.58%), and the prediction skill got (19) recurrences and a percentage (50%). The Expansion skill got (7) repetitions with a percentage of (18.42%)ز   In the light of these findings, the researcher submitted a number of

recommendations and suggestions:

• The need to balance the distribution of mental skills in the content of the book biology for the intermediate grade.
• It is necessary to develop a biology book for the third intermediate grade according to the mental skills in Marzano's model for achieving the quality of education in Iraq.

Conducting a similar study on biology books for the High Schoo