Digital Education Skills for In-service Biology Teachers of the Secondary-stage Biology Curriculum (An evaluative study)

Abstract

AbstractThis research aimed at identifying the digital education skills necessary for in-service biology teachers at the secondary stage, and investigating how far they possessed these skills. It also aimed at proposing a training program for developing their skills. Descriptive and experimental methods were used for the purposes of this research. Instruments and materials included a checklist and a rubric of digital education skills, a questionnaire to identify the level of the teachers in these skills, and a proposed framework of a training program for in-service biology teachers to develop their digital education skills. The program was administered to a group of secondary-stage biology teachers (N=18) at Damietta Governorate in the first semester of the 2022-2023 school year. The research findings revealed that the research group had poor digital education skills, and proved the training program effective in developing those skills.Keywords: digital education skills - In-service Biology Teachers - biology curriculum.

Keywords

• digital education skills
• in-service biology teachers
• biology curriculum