The Impact of Implementing an Enrichment Program on the Awareness of Post-Basic Education Students in the Sultanate of Oman Regarding Islamic Values

Abstract

This research aims to enhance the cognitive awareness of Islamic values to students in post basic education in Sultanate of Oman. That is by implementing an enrichment program suggested to Islamic studies curriculums of grade eleven and measuring the impact of the program in developing the cognitive enrichment on them. The researcher used a “quantitative method” process as combined both qualitative curriculum and quantitative curriculum. The study sample consisted of 350 students. Chosen by a “simple random” method, of which are (200 male students) and (150 female students). From 8 schools in Muscat governate (Muscat state and Mutrah state) conformed as (4 male schools) and (4 female schools). As per the research tools they consisted of an analysis form by the title of “grade 11 Islamic study curriculum both semesters analysis forum” and a “values measurement”. Included 40 questions reflects real life scenarios cohere with the nature of Islamic values aimed to be developed, to evaluate their progress across the program. The statistical analysis was performed by (SPSS program). Which from the results showed that the approximate values in all the measured areas of cognitive awareness of Islamic values of grade 11 students post basic in Sultanate of Oman were lower than default significance of 0.05. Thus, it indicates differences of statistical significance between the average marks of the students in the experimental group and the average marks of the students in the control group in all relevant applications of the program. Thus, indicating that the enrichment program suggested to Islamic studies curriculum has a measurable effect on the enhancing the cognitive awareness of Islamic studies in grade 11 post basic students in Sultanate of Oman. The researcher has passed some recommendations one of which developing similar enrichment programs that enhances the current studied curriculum aiming to develop and elevate the cognitive awareness of such values for students in all grades and levels of studies in Sultanate of Oman.