The Psychological Thinking Level of Biology Teachers Employment of Technological Innovation According to (NSTA) Standards

Abstract

The research aims detecting the level of biology teachers employing technological innovations according to (NSTA) standards by building a scale. NSTA standards, which are consistent with biology teachers in measuring technological innovations. Revealing  the significant differences in the level of employing technological innovations according to the variables (gender, years of service). The current research community has been identified with biology teachers in the secondary stage for the academic year (2020-2021) in Al-Muthanna Governorate, whose number is (286) teachers, and a sample consisting of (115) teachers and schools, and the variable measuring technological innovations. To achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher relied on the following: Using the descriptive approach to detect the level of employing technological innovations according to (NSTA) standards. Building a scale for employing technological innovations according to (NSTA) standards by examining the researcher with the literature and previous studies related to the subject of the research. The scale in its final form consisted of (53) five-alternative items. They were distributed among nine domains (NSTA standards) which are (content, nature of science, investigation, biological issues, teaching skills, curriculum, evaluation, professional growth, and occupational safety). The researcher applied his research tool in the form of on the day 14/2/2023 on the research sample consisting of (115) male and female teachers in the secondary stage in Al-Muthanna Governorate, which were chosen by the intentional method from which they were chosen according to the proportional method, for the academic year (2022-2023). ) and after data collection and statistical processing using (SPSS). The research reached the following results: The level of employment of biology teachers at the secondary level with technological innovations according to (NSTA) standards is medium, with the total weight percentile of the scale (61.2%). All (NSTA) standards agreed with biology teachers in employing technological innovations, where the percentage weights of the standards were higher than the cut-off score (60%) set by the researcher to determine employment, except for the evaluation standard, which was less than the cut-off score with a weight percentile of (53.7%). It is not compatible with biology teachers. There were statistically significant differences in the level of employing technological innovations according to (NSTA) standards, according to the gender variable, in favor of males. Statistically significant differences appeared in the level of employing technological innovations according to (NSTA) standards, according to the variable years of service, in favor of teachers who had years of service (11 or more), as it came with the highest arithmetic mean, while teachers who had years of service from (1-5) came in last place.