Evaluation of a Book on Modern and Contemporary History of Europe and America for theFifth Literary Grade According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science Standards

Abstract

The current research aims to evaluate the modern and contemporary history of Europe and American books for the fifth literary grade according to the standards of the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS. Thus, the researcher adopted the descriptive approach, and the survey method (content analysis) to achieve the research objective.The current research community is determined by the content of the modern and contemporary history of Europe and America book for the fifth literary grade twelfth (1443 AH - 2021 AD), the number of its chapters (7), and the number of pages (112). The introduction, the index, and the chapter questions were excluded from the sample, so the number of pages subject to analysis became (107), which represents a percentage of (95.5%) as a sample for the research.To complete the research requirements, the researcher prepared a questionnaire that includes the standards of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, consisting of two groups.The first (content analysis) includes five sub-standards, while the second (the book’s support for the teaching process), includes seven sub-standards, the questionnaire consisted of (98) indicators distributed among the two groups. The researcher presented the questionnaire to experts in teaching methods of history to extract the face validity, then the questionnaire was modified to its final form after taking the recommendations.Subsequently, the model was analyzed to extract reliability by analysts and time using the (Holsti) equation.Moreover, the researcher analyzed the book after confirming the validity and reliabilityof the tool and adopted the idea as a unit of analysis, frequency,and a unit enumeration implementing the percentage with frequency and the arithmetic mean as statistical means.The results of the statistical analysis resulted in the book’s inclusion of (697) ideas, and the group (the book’s support for the teaching process) ranked the first, while the group (content analysis) ranked the second.