Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences (Philosophy and Islamic Education), Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Master's degree, Department of Educational Sciences, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran and Secretary of Education

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine the content of social studies textbooks of the first secondary school in relation to virtual space and its components. The statistical population of this research was the social studies books of the first year of high school and the sampling method was the whole number method. Content analysis method was used in this research. The unit of analysis in the text section, questions and activities, is considered as sentences in the text of the textbook, and in the pictures section, it is divided into units and counted based on the indicators mentioned in it. And used to process the collected Shannon entropy data based on this method, known as the compensatory model. The results showed that in the textbooks of social studies of the first secondary school, the components of "usefulness" with a significance coefficient of 0.258, "intention used" with a significance coefficient of 0.227, and "compatibility" with a significance coefficient of / 215, respectively. 0 and "ease of use" with a coefficient of importance of 0.183 have received the most attention and the components of attitude with a coefficient of significance of 0.062 and perceived pleasure with a coefficient of significance of 0.053 have received the least attention.

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