Due to continuous emerging technologies, the need for a continuous curriculum reform in terms of digital content is mandatory. Bioinformatics science could be used as a future promising science that will offer biology students remarkable technological and digital activities including Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) approaches. Several initiatives around the world have encouraged the use of bioinformatics activities within biology curriculum. This study represents the first Palestinian study that explores the effect of integration of bioinformatics experiments within the eleventh-grade biology textbook on student’s achievement. The researchers used a non -equivalent quasi-experimental approach where the experimental group was composed of 76 students and the control group 71 students distributed at three Palestinian schools in Jenin County. Both ADDIE (Analyse, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate) model and TPACK (Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge) models were used to design the intervention material and teachers training respectively. The researchers constructed a validated biology achievement test (a = 0.853, CVI = 0.949). Statistical analysis revealed that students of the experimental group showed a higher significant test scores (p = 0.05) than students from control group using Mann-Whitney U Test. In addition, two way -ANCOVA was used to investigate the interaction among samples (experimental/control) with other factors including learning environment (face-face/blended), school geographic location and gender. Results revealed a significant difference of student’s posttest scores due to the interaction of sample type along with learning environment and geographic location with an F value of 8.426 and 4.170 at significance levels of 0.004 and 0.017 respectively. However, there was no significant difference of student’s postHOTS and postLOTS scores due to the interaction of sample type with gender. Although previous results indicate that bioinformatics offers students with a promising opportunity to elevate students learning outcomes, however, further analysis of the intervention settings should be performed in order to optimize the intervention outcomes in the future.

Title

Journal of Science Education and Technology

Publisher

springer Nature

Publisher Country

Germany

Indexing

Scopus

Impact Factor

5.5

Publication Type

Both (Printed and Online)

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Year

2026

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