The Effect of Teaching the Quranic Stories by the Method of the Community of Inquiry on the Moral Judgment of Students of the Sixth Grade of Elemen-tary School of Hamedan

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of teaching the Quranic stories through the community of inquiry method on the moral judgment of students. The research method was semi-experimental by pretest-posttest with unequal control group design. A sample of 120 students was selected from the statistical population of the male and female students of the sixth grade of primary schools in Hamedan during the academic year of 2017-18. They were selected by multi-stage random sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups were replaced. For data collection, the Moral Judgment Test of Sinha and Varma (1998) was used in the pretest and post-test. The experimental group received a course of teaching Quranic stories during 2.5 months in 10 ninety-minute sessions. The text book was the collection of stories from the prophets and great religious men from Sayegostar publication. The course was not provided for the education control group. To analyze the data, multivariate and simple covariance analysis was used. Data were analyzed with SPSS-24 software. The results showed that the mean scores of moral judgment and its components among the students of the experimental group were significantly higher than the control group. Therefore, the research hypothesis was confirmed. Also, the results showed that the gender and interactive effect of education on students' moral judgment scores was not significant. Therefore, it can be said that teaching the Quranic stories by method of the community of inquiry have a similar effect on the moral judgment of male and female students. Thus, it can be concluded that the teaching of Quranic stories through the method of the community of inquiry can be used to enhance the moral judgment of male and female students.