The effect of a proposed training program to develop laboratory skills for student teachers in the Bachelor of Biology program at the College of Education/Aden

Abstract

The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of a suggested training program on developing the laboratory skills for the would-be teachers studying in the Bachelor Program in the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Education – Aden. The researcher used the descriptive method as well as the quasi-experimental method known as the one-experimental group design with pre- and post- measurements. A comparison was made between the pre- and post-measurements by using the observation card which was applied on the research sample. Then, the statistical differences between the mean scores of the pre- and post-measurements were calculated. The sample consisted of ten (n=10) would-be teachers studying in the second semester of the academic year 2018-2019 at the Faculty of Education –Aden.

The research instruments used for collecting the data was the observation card to measure the development of the practical side, i.e. the skills after testing and checking its validity and reliability.

The researcher worked on training the would-be teachers on the program in nineteen (19) session of five hours a day.

• The results of the statistical t-test indicated that there is no statistically significant difference at level 0.05 between the mean scores of the research group in the pre- and post-performance on the observation card due to the suggested training program and the performance level was high, medium and low.
• The results of the t-test also indicated that there is no statistically significant difference at the level 0.05 between the mean scores of the research group in the pre- and post-performance of: writing experimental reports, examining a sample of pond water, dissecting flowers, detecting blood group, formalin solution preparation, and making anthropomorphic models which can be attributed to the suggested program.

In the light of these results, some recommendations were suggested