The Effectiveness of a Training Program Based on Nanotechnology Concepts in the light of Constructivist Theory in Developing Mental Motivation, Productive Thinking and Scientific Curiosity among Students of The Faculty of Education, Division of Chemistry

Hassan, Mervat Hassan Fathi Abdel Hamid; Shafei, Sahar Hamdy Fouad

doi:10.21608/jsre.2021.59369.1256

The Effectiveness of a Training Program Based on Nanotechnology Concepts in the light of Constructivist Theory in Developing Mental Motivation, Productive Thinking and Scientific Curiosity among Students of The Faculty of Education, Division of Chemistry

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Educational Psychology Department- Faculty of Education - Helwan University

² - curriculum andteaching methods department - faculty of education-helwan university

10.21608/jsre.2021.59369.1256

Abstract

The aim of the current research was to verify the effectiveness of a training program based on nanotechnology concepts in the light of constructivist theory in developing mental motivation, productive thinking, and scientific curiosity among students of the college of education - department of chemistry, and the research sample consisted of (87) students from the third year students in the faculty of education, they were divided into two groups, experimental groups (43) male and female students from the department of chemistry and a control (44) male and female students from the Physics division, and the california scale of mental motivation, the productive thinking test, and the scientific curiosity scale were used, and the results of the study concluded that statistically significant differences at a significance level of 0.01 between students of the experimental and control groups after applying the training program in favor of students of the experimental group in mental motivation, productive thinking, and scientific curiosity.
Key words: Nanotechnology, Constructivism Theory, Mental Motivation, Productive Thinking, Scientific Curiosity.

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Education

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