Journal of Research in Educational Systems

Abstract This study seeks to identify the components and content analysis of the curriculum of empirical sciences based on the document of fundamental change (case study of fifth grade curriculum) in the academic year 1398-1989. The research method is a hybrid design that is conducted in two qualitative phases of content analysis with inductive categorization and in quantitative phase of content analysis by Shannon model. The statistical population of this study is in the qualitative level of the upstream documents of the Iranian education system and in the quantitative level of the fifth grade elementary science books. Data were collected using researcher-made journals and tables that were used to record and identify the components of the fifth grade elementary science book. At the qualitative level, 60 items and 24 components were extracted from fundamental transformation document and analyzed using Shannon entropy model in quantitative phase, 47 items and 22 components from elementary fifth grade curriculum. The results showed that in the fifth elementary empirical science textbook the highest importance coefficient was related to the scientific viewpoints on issues and events, participation in activities, training of entrepreneurship basics and the lowest coefficient of utilization of virtual environments and media to enhance learning, It created a variety of educational opportunities for students with special needs, created opportunities to launch and form learner-made science exhibitions and the ability to work and use digital resources.

Abstract The present research performed based on TIMSS 2015 to identify the 4th grade students’ misconceptions in experimental science lesson. The second analysis method used as research method. The data of 8035 students that selected in TIMSS-2015 study as research sample considered in present research. Based on theoretical history considereations three misconceptions in geo-science, three misconceptions in physics science and four misconceptions in bioscience areas identified as common misconceptions amont primary school students in Science lessons that it could be investigated them by Persian students’ responses in TIMSS-2015 study. The misconceptions such as light intensity changes due to change of distance between sun and earth, earth rotation around the sun, the fixed situation of moon and its light intensity (the geo-science area), the bulb as electricity energy production source and the plastic as the best thermal conductor (the physic sicence area), food eating by all live creatures and considering the trees as non-alive creatures (bio-science area) verified among Persian students but three other misconceptions didn’t verify. By given to obtained results in relation to three misconceptions that identified in geo-science area, the attention to effective training the planetary conceptions and correcting the present misconceptions become more important than before. In addition, the high rate of misconceptions that identified in physics science in relation to thermal condoctur showed that it is necessary to emphasis on this part more.