Designing and Validating of a General Competency based Curriculum for Secondary Theoretical School

The purpose of this study was to design and validate a curriculum based on general competency for Secondary Theortical School. The purpose of this study was to design and validate a curriculum based on general competency for high school students. The research method is exploratory mixed data whose data were collected in a field method using a questionnaire. The statistical population included curriculum planning specialists and all teachers and experts of theoretical high school in Fars province. The statistical sample was selected in a quantitative section in two stages. At first, 10 curriculum planning specialists were purposefully selected and then from all teachers and experts of theoretical high school in Fars province who were experts in the field of curriculum planning as 80 Statistical samples were selected by simple random sampling. The measurement tool for data collection was a qualitative questionnaire including a deductive content analysis in the qualitative stage and a paginated questionnaire in the quantitative stage. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis with deductive categorization system and quantitative methods including factor analysis using SPSS software. The qualitative findings of the designed model confirmed the characteristics related to the main elements of purpose, content, method and evaluation, and the quantitative findings indicated the validity of the designed model. Therefore, it can be concluded that the curriculum based on general competence for the second year of theoretical high school in this study can be used in the new educational system.