TY - JOUR TT - THE DEGREE OF STUDENTS INVOLVEMENT IN THE SOCIAL STUDIES TEXTBOOK FOR SIX INTERMEDIATE BASIC SCHOOL IN KURDISTAN REGION 'STUDY AND ANALYSIS' AU - Haji, Sattar Jabbar PY - 2016 DA - September JF - The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences JO - EPESS PB - ISRES Publishing WT - DergiPark SN - 2587-1730 SP - 328 EP - 338 VL - 5 KW - Analysis KW - involvement KW - Kurdistan Region KW - Romy's method KW - social studies textbook N2 - The currentstudy aimed to investigate the degree of students' involvement in the social studies textbook for SixIntermediate Basic School in the Kurdistan Region by it is three units:Geography, History, Citizenship, through the presentation of: educationalcontent, Figures & diagrams, and educational activities. The study alsoaimed to investigate the difference in the degree of students' involvement in the textbookaccording to educational units. To achieve this aim the researcher utilized Romy's method to calculate the variablesof students' involvement coefficients, andChi-square test to investigate the differences in involvement degree of thetextbook according to educational units. The results showed revealed reductionof students' involvement in educational contentin geography, history, Citizenship units, and did not located within theacceptable range adopted by Romy's, it is values were (0.06, 0.10, 0.13) consecutively,the results also showed revealed reduction involvement in figures &diagrams in geography unit it is value reached (0.12), and non- involvement forhistory and citizenship, and the students' involvement through educational activities the bookshowed an excellent student except in geography unit with coefficient (0.31). 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