Arab Educational Information Network

The current research aimed at detecting the effect of a proposed program based on the virtual practice community directed by experts / peer in developing the skills of analyzing the content of the lesson, the analytical thinking skills and the self-efficacy of the student teachers of Arabic language at the Faculty of Education at Alexandria University. The researchers used the semi-experimental approach and the experimental design “Extended Control Group Pretest-Posttest Design”. The research sample consisted of (90) male and female students of the general diploma in education in Arabic language at the Faculty of Education, Alexandria University. They were divided into three groups of 30 student teachers each, two experimental groups and one control group. The first experimental group used the program based on the community of virtual practice directed by experts and the second experimental group used the program based on the community of virtual practice directed by peer while the control group used the usual lecture method in the first semester of the academic year 2017/2018. The research results showed that there were statistically significant differences at (α ≤ 0.05) between the average of the three research groups for the two experimental groups in the analysis skills of the lesson content and analytical thinking skills. The results confirmed the superiority of the first experimental group directed by the experts in: the analysis skills of the lesson content, analytical thinking skills, and self-efficacy versus the second experimental group. The average gain rate for the first experimental group exceeded (1.2) in content analysis skills and analytical thinking skills, and the effect size was ²η (0.96), indicating the effectiveness and the effect of the virtual practice community directed by experts in the development of dependent variables in this research. The research recommended the need for experts in virtual practice communities to provide guidance to community members. The research ended with a set of recommendations and Suggestions for future Researches. (Published abstract)