Effectiveness Rate of the Components of Citizenship Values in the Primary School Curriculum

The present study was conducted with the aim to investigate the effectiveness rate of components of citizenship values in curriculum of the primary school. The research method was descriptive survey. The statistical population was consisted all of primary school teachers of Urmia. In order to determine the sample volume, 219 teachers were selected by using the clustering-randomized sampling method at the probability level of 95% and with the probability precision of 0.05. The measurement tool was the researcher-made questionnaire including 59 items according to Likert scale consisting of responsibility, respecting other's rights, patriotism and personal discipline. Content reliability was used for determining the reliability of the research tool. The validity of the questionnaire was estimated based on the cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.85. Data was analyzed in two levels of descriptive statistics including percentage, mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics including one-variable-T, independent-T, correlated, one-way variance analysis and LSD tests. The findings showed that the mean score of the efficiency of citizenship values has been 3.99 for the responsibility, 3.89 for respect to other's rights, 3.85 for patriotism and 3.81 for personal discipline. Observed F at the level of P ≤0.05 was significant. Therefore, there was a difference between the effectiveness rates of citizenship values. The highest rate of effectiveness was related to responsibility and the lowest rate was related to personal discipline. The comparison of mean score of effectiveness of citizenship values from the viewpoint of teachers based on gender, educational degree and service records showed the difference between female and male teachers regarding the patriotism.