Teachers’ Perspectives toward Educational Illustrations in Science Textbooks for Third Graders in Jordan

Abstract

The study investigated perspectives of third grade teachers in Jordan toward educational illustrations included in science textbooks for third grade students. to achieve the goals of the study, the researchers developed a questionnaire to collect data consisting of (54) items distributed into five areas: the extent of clarity of the educational illustrations contained in the textbook, the scientific accuracy of the educational illustrations, educational illustrations relevance to subjects, educational illustrations relevance to students and diversity of the educational illustrations. The sample of the study consisted of (114) male and female teachers.  Results showed teachers' perspectives toward the scientific accuracy of educational illustrations were high, but their perspectives on the other aspects were moderate.