Arab Educational Information Network

The purpose of this research is to design a list of the scientific and moral values that should be found in the content of the computer textbook for the second intermediate grade, as well as to analyze the content of the above- mentioned book by answering the following question: what is the percentage of availability of scientific and moral values in the content of the computer textbook for second intermediate grade issued by the Iraqi ministry of education / the general directorate of the curriculum, for the academic year (2017-2018)? In order to achieve the research objectives, the descriptive method (content analysis method) was adopted. The research community has been identified as the content of the computer textbook for intermediate second grade. The research instrument, a tool for content analysis, prepared according to the objectives of teaching computer for the intermediate stage and based on the literature and previous studies of values and their classification. Additionally, a survey conducted by the researchers on a number of teachers. The researcher adopted also the unit of thought (implicit, explicit), as a unit of analysis. This research found that the percentages of scientific values (curiosity, scientific thinking, assessment of science, and ethics of science) reached 25.8%, 43.01%, 12.90%, and 18.29% respectively. The moral values have reached the percentage of the value of taking responsibility (100%), while the value of respect for others did not receive any repetition in the content of the textbook. (Published abstract)