A Hybrid Training Progr am for Developing the Employment of the Artificial Intelligence Applications Skills in Teaching among the Biological and Geological Sciences Department Students and its Impact on their Future Thinking Skills

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Faculty of Education, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

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The current research aimed to develop the skills of using artificial intelligence in teaching among fourth-year student teachers in the department of Geology and Biology, Faculty of Education, Al-Azhar University. Furthermore, the researche aimed to identify the effect of this training on their students’ future thinking skills. To meet such an end, the researche employed the experimental approach with its semi-experimental design, namely, pretest-posttest control group design. The participants, totaling 96 student-teachers, were chosen following the systematic random sampling and were randomly assigned to an experimental group (N=48) and a control one (N=48). The instruments of the research namely, achievement test, assessment checklist for the daily written lesson plans, observation checklist, and future thinking skills test, were all prepared by the researchers. The results of the research  revealed that there was a statistically significant difference at (0.05) level between the mean scores attained by both groups in the post administration of the instruments in favor of the experimental group students. Moreover, the results showed that there was a large effect size of the training program on developing the achievement and performance aspects of the skills of using artificial intelligence in teaching regarding the planning process, and the performance aspect of such skills regarding the implementation and assessment processes where the effect size (d) scores were 1.37, 2.07, and 1.2 respectively. Meanwhile, the effect size (d) of the training program on developing future thinking skills among second-year preparatory stage students was 1.74. As such, some suggestions and recommendations were presented.

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