شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of implementing the Lebanese Sex Education Curriculum 2009 on grade 12 life science students` sexual attitude and behavior in public high schools – Mount Lebanon for three months. An intervention was conducted by using Sex Education Curriculum 2009 on a sample of 30 students as experimental group, while the control group consisted of 20 students selected from other public school in the same area. Using quasi- experimental non-equivalent groups design (pre- post test ), evaluation of outcomes was measured by using a questionnaire from an Illustrative questionnaire for interview-surveys with young people done by John Cleland where questions were selected out according to the selected objectives of the new curriculum 2009 and student's social culture context and completed by 50 students. After analysing the data by using SPSS version 16.0, the findings implied that the government should activate the implementation of the Sex Education Curriculum 2009 as well as to improve it according to the students` needs. (Published Abstract)