The Extent of Knowledge of Achieving the Final Exam Questions for the Sixth to Eleventh Grades to the Levels Depth of Knowledge "DOK" Webb in Jordan

Abstract

This study aimed to know the extent to which the final exam questions are achieved in the basic curricula of students from sixth to eleventh in schools of the Ministry of Education in Jordan for the levels depth of knowledge (DOK) webb, and the study population is from all of all the final exams questions for the basic curricula (Islamic Education, Arabic Language, English, Mathematics, Science) that the Evaluation and Examinations Department at the Ministry of Education for the first semester of the 2015/2016 academic year, which number 30 exams. The researcher used the analytical descriptive approach through the use of the computerized statistical package program in the social sciences (SPSS), one-way analysis of variance (One-Way ANOVA), the LSD test for post comparisons, and the T-test, and the most prominent findings Study results. Depth of knowledge (DOK) skills were for the level of remembering, while the depth of knowledge skills were less for extended thinking, and the objective exams achieved the depth of knowledge in all its dimensions compared to the essay questions. there are apparent differences in the dimensions of depth of knowledge (remembering, concepts and skills, strategic thinking, extended thinking) according to the subject type variable, and the differences were indicative only in the areas of strategic thinking and extended thinking. And the differences in the field of concepts and skills were between grades (sixth, seventh, and eighth) on the one hand, and the eleventh grade on the other hand, where the differences were in favor of the eleventh grade, and the differences in extended thinking were between grades (sixth, eighth, and ninth) on the one hand, and the eleventh grade. On the other hand, the differences were in favor of the eleventh grade.