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European Journal of <strong>Educational</strong> Studies 2(2), 2010The third part of the survey asked respondents to indicate the degree of importance of content areas on a scaleranging from one (unimportant) to four (very important) and the degree of implementation of these contentareas on a scale ranging from one (never) to four (very often). As shown in Table 2, the perceived mostimportant content areas were current events (M = 3.77), core values of Oman society (M = 3.75), geography(M = 3.68), environmental education (M = 3.68), history (M = 3.66), family life education (M = 3.66), andpublic issues (M = 3.54). Geography and history, along with the perceived most important content areas,received the highest degree of implementation. The lowest-ranked content areas in both importance andimplementation were sociology, political science, psychology, and law-related education.Dependent t-tests were used to determine if there were statistically significant differences between theperceived importance and perceived implementation of social studies content areas. Utilizing the Bonferronicorrection, the initial alpha level of .05 was divided by 16 (= number of t-tests). Then, the results of the t-testswere compared to the adjusted alpha = .003. As shown in Table 2, statistically significant differences werefound between the perceived importance and perceived implementation on all social studies content areas (p< .003). Specifically, the mean of importance of each content area was significantly higher than that ofimplementation. Effect sizes ranged from a magnitude of 0.25 to 0.72, with the largest effects found onanthropology (d = 0.72) and career education (d = 0.68). It should be noted that content areas with smallereffect sizes were among the most implemented content areas. On the other hand, content areas with largereffect sizes were among the least implemented content areas.181
European Journal of <strong>Educational</strong> Studies 2(2), 2010Table 2 Dependent (Paired) t Tests for the Degree of Importance and Implementation of Social StudiesContent AreasDegree ofImportanceDegree ofImplementation t pEffectSizeSocial Studies Content AreasdfM SD M SDCurrent events 394 3.77 0.54 3.43 0.77 9.32 .000* 0.46Core values of Oman society 396 3.75 0.59 3.42 0.78 9.07 .000* 0.46Geography 396 3.68 0.60 3.52 0.67 5.13 .000* 0.25Environmental education 388 3.68 0.58 3.36 0.77 8.89 .000* 0.45Family life education 394 3.66 0.59 3.37 0.75 7.74 .000* 0.40History 396 3.66 0.61 3.44 0.72 6.38 .000* 0.32Public issues 394 3.54 0.68 3.14 0.86 9.01 .000* 0.45Issues and content that representglobal interest and concern390 3.38 0.72 2.95 0.83 10.45 .000* 0. 53Economics 391 3.24 0.76 2.76 0.84 11.71 .000* 0.59Oman’s cultural heritage includingcustoms, arts, music, and dance394 3.14 0.93 2.73 0.97 8.97 .000* 0.45Career education 384 3.13 0.82 2.48 0.89 13.35 .000* 0.68Anthropology 396 3.12 0.84 2.48 0.81 14.37 .000* 0.72Sociology 395 2.97 0.88 2.45 0.93 10.58 .000* 0.53Political science 387 2.97 0.89 2.38 0.87 11.98 .000* 0.61Psychology 389 2.81 1.00 2.16 0.93 12.29 .000* 0.63Law-related education 391 2.77 0.91 2.16 0.88 12.40 .000* 0.63*p < .003Perceptions about ChallengesThe last part of the survey asked respondents to indicate some possible challenges that may hinder theimplementation of social studies goals and content areas. Respondents were asked to rate their responses on a182
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