Results
Questionnaire Results
Teachers’ responses are shown in Table 1, which indicates that the teachers were not happy with the
content of the new science curriculum in Grades 6 and 7. Based upon the answers, it was evident that most
teachers (78%) thought that the content was difficult to teach. These science teachers encountered challenges
when teaching this new curriculum; these difficulties will be discussed in detail. A low percentage of teachers
(23%) reported that the content of the new science curriculum was related to Kuwaiti culture and society. This
finding was likely because the teachers recognized that the new science curriculum was designed in the US,
which has a different culture and society than Kuwait. As shown in Table 1, the remaining items got low
percentages, which reflected what the science teachers thought about the content of the new science curriculum.
The next part of the questionnaire was about the challenges and difficulties facing the science teachers in
teaching the new science curriculum. This question was open-ended to give the teachers an opportunity to