Content Analysis of the Thinking and Research Book of the Sixth Primary on the basis of Thinking Processes

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the content of the book of Thinking and Research on the sixth grade of the elementary school according to the amount of attention to thinking processes in the academic year of 96-95. The research method was descriptive and content analysis was quantitative. The statistical population of the study consisted of the sixth elementary school of thought and research textbook and sampling method was census, this book was selected and analyzed as a sample. The research tool was a checklist. To determine the validity of the research, formal and content validity was used and to determine the reliability of the two half-way method, the correlation coefficient of the two halves was 0.75. It is calculated. Unit of analysis; sentences, activities and images contained in the text of the book Thinking and Research. In content analysis using Shannon entropy method, the importance of the coefficients of thinking processes (mental organization of information (0.41), critical thinking (0.336) and creative thinking (0.171) were calculated. The results of the findings showed that the textbook of thought and research has less consistency in terms of attention to the processes of thinking, and has paid close attention to some of the processes of thinking (critical thinking) and to the process (creative thinking) has been somewhat paid attention . Therefore, the content of the book of Thinking and Research is based on the sixth primitive in terms of observing the processes of thinking needs to be reviewed and rewritten.

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