Using the Principles and Standards of Organizing the Contents of the Book Entitled " The History of Iran and World in High school"

This study aims to investigate the viewpoints of teachers and students about the principles and standards of organizing the contents of the book entitled "the History of Iran and World. This study is an applied research and the survey method is used. The population of this study consists of two groups. The first group ia composed od 30 high school history teachers and the second group consists of 2189 sophomores and juniors of high school in Humanities. To choose the sample from this population, all the teachers of history and 330 students are selected through cluster random sampling method. The data was collected through the researcher-made questionnaires for the two groups with the reliability coefficients of 0.89 and 0.81, respectively. Questionnaires were based on a 5-point Likert scale. Descriptive and inferential statistics from t-tests were used to analyze the findings. Analysis of the findings showed that there is a significant difference between the viewpoints of teachers and students about the fitness of the contents of the book to the predetermined purposes. There is also a significant difference regarding the observation of the principles of selecting and organizing the contents of the book and the learning experiences of the students. In addition, with regard to the correspondence between the content of the history course with real needs of society, there is no significant difference. Finally, there is no significant difference found between student's views and teacher's views about the correspondeance between the content of the history course and the student's abilities, needs, and interests.