Arab Educational Information Network

The goal of the current research is to identify the components of the hidden curriculum within the school, identify the differences between the average scores of students in schools with the positive hidden curriculum and the average scores of students in schools with the negative hidden curriculum in the moral values, and identify the differences between the average scores of students in schools with the positive hidden curriculum and the average scores of students in schools with the negative hidden curriculum in the aesthetic and recreational values. The researcher used the descriptive analytical approach to answer the research questions. The research tools were a questionnaire of the hidden curriculum to identify the availability range of its components in schools of the first cycle of the basic education, a questionnaire to measure the aesthetic values of the fourth-grade students from the first cycle of the basic education, and another questionnaire to measure the moral values. The research was conducted on a sample consisted of (120 student). The research has shown the following results: 1) There are statistically significant differences at the significance level of 0.05 between the average scores of students in schools with the positive hidden curriculum and the average scores of students in schools with the negative hidden curriculum in the moral values. 2) There are statistically significant differences at the significance level of 0.05 between the average scores of students in schools with the positive hidden curriculum and the average scores of students in schools with the negative hidden curriculum in the aesthetic values. (Published Abstract)