Rachid Janati-Idrissi

École Normale Supérieure de Tétouan · Département des Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre,Equipe de Recherche en Ingénierie Pédagogique et Didactique des Sciences (ERIPDS)

Introduction: Health education in Morocco, integrated into school programs since 1971, promotes personal development, autonomy, and respect for others. While immunology can serve as a vehicle for this education, official texts and political will alone are insufficient to fully engage all stakeholders in the national education system. Methods: This...

Midwifery education is fundamental to ensuring that midwives have the appropriate skills to manage critical situations and thereby prevent maternal and neonatal mortality. To achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4 and 5 by 2030 and strengthen the professional role of midwives, Morocco has implemented a competency-based training programme. T...

The teaching of sciences, and more specifically immunology, in a foreign language presents numerous challenges, particularly in terms of understanding and assimilating knowledge. In this context, teaching sciences in the native language would be more conducive to learning, as students have been familiarized with these linguistic structures from a y...

Learning biochemistry can be a challenge for most university students. They represent a lot of difficulty in studying this module. This is evidenced by numerous failures and a lack of interest in the subject. For them, biochemistry is a dry subject requiring extensive memorization and complex language. They also find it boring. However, biochemistr...

The aim of this study is to understand the constraints or obstacles that Moroccan students encounter in learning endocrinology. In carrying out this research, students from various Moroccan academic institutions enrolled in various life and earth sciences departments and in other departments that taught endocrinology cooperated. To obtain lists of...

Homeostasis is a core concept not only for specialized physiologists but also for science students. Numerous studies around the globe suggest that homeostasis is a central and yet very challenging concept to grasp by students. However, to date, the existing research on this issue is remarkably limited –if not absent- in many Arab and African countr...

This article investigates the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on enhancing the process of text production, emphasizing the advantages, difficulties, and consequences associated with its use. The author emphasizes the transformative impact of sophisticated language models on the development of textual material, since they provide high-qual...

Blood glucose homeostasis is a fundamental concept in biology. Yet, in the Moroccan education system, it is only covered in the 11th grade. This might explain why the majority of students struggle to understand this complex notion. Fingers of blame are also pointed to textbooks and how they didactically (mis)transposed this knowledge from its acade...

Our study aimed to evaluate how the integration of augmented reality (AR) technology into science learning courses at the primary and secondary school levels can impact student learning. We conducted this research during the 2023 school year in three primary schools in the Casablanca-Settat region and one college in the Tangier-Tetouan Al Houceima...

Computer simulation offers several advantages for electricity learning, such as visualization and interactivity. Computer simulation enables learners to interactively understand electrical phenomena by visualizing them. As a result, abstract concepts become easier for students to grasp. This study aims to determine the impact of computer simulation...

Background In Morocco, despite various initiatives to improve the quality of reproductive healthcare, the indicators remain unfavorable. To strengthen the skills of midwives and support the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 by 2030, Morocco has developed and implemented a competency-based training framework. However, there...

This study aims to discover the constraints or obstacles encountered by Moroccan students in their learning of endocrinology. Students from several Moroccan universities enrolled in life and earth sciences as well as those enrolled in other fields where this subject is taught collaborated in the realization of this research. To list the concepts or...

L'intégration des technologies de l'information et de la communication dans l'enseignement des disciplines scientifiques multiplie les capacités pédagogiques qui permettent d'approcher les concepts et les notions scientifiques. Dans le même contexte, l'usage des animations graphiques pour l'apprentissage est de plus en plus fréquent, surtout pour v...

In the official texts of the teaching of geology in Moroccan high school observation, experimentation, modeling, and geological field trips occupy a prominent place. Since geological phenomena are complex, abstract, and inaccessible for direct apprehension. However, high school teachers encounter challenges due to the lack of geology training and t...

Integrating ICTE in learning assessments brings benefits but faces challenges like limited internet access. This can hinder fair evaluations, especially in rural or developing areas. Not all learners have personal computers or internet connections, creating disparities in digital resource access. Such inequalities compromise assessment equity...

This study investigates into the effects of incorporating augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) activities into biology courses on the learning and motivation of primary cycle pre-service teachers at the Regional Centre for Education and Training Professions (RCETP). The primary aim of our study is to ease the transfer of skills by familiarizing pr...

Today's science education plays a central role in shaping tomorrow's citizens. Its aim is to develop a solid scientific culture in individuals, enabling them to make informed decisions on science-related issues. The aim is not only to pass on scientific knowledge, but also to train citizens who can use their scientific knowledge productively in...

Le Maroc, prenant conscience du rôle que peuvent jouer les TIC dans le développement économique et social du pays, n’a cessé de multiplier les actions[1] visant la transformation numérique du pays, par le biais de l’intégration des TIC dans tous les secteurs. Justement, le Maroc mise sur l'école pour être un levier de cette transformation numérique...

During the recent reforms of its educational system, Morocco has continually undertaken actions to promote the integration of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in teaching. However, this integration faces several challenges. In this context, the 2021 annual report from the Higher Council of Education in Morocco revealed that 64.6%...

Idrissi(2023). The integration of augmented and virtual reality in cell biology courses as a pedagogical innovation in the training of life and earth sciences teachers .

This study was conducted in the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Tetouan to detect the major difficulties that Moroccan students encounter in their learning of endocrinology and hormonal communication. To do this, we used semi-directive interviews to receive the opinions of these students in their learning of this subject. The final results of this surv...

While numerous global studies have examined difficulties in learning homeostasis, there has been a notable lack of attention to this issue within the Moroccan educational context. Serving as a preliminary exploration, this study aims to examine Moroccan teachers' perceptions of students' difficulties in learning homeostasis and its role in maintain...

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Science of evolution is the basic of life and earth science (LES). It searches for mobilize the process and reasoning of tow scientific poles: functionalist and historical. Because it try together to reconstruct the history of living beings from their origins and to explain the working biological mechanisms in this process. Therefore, studies of ev...

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Le constructivisme est une approche pédagogique majeure dans l’enseignement des sciences, mettant l’accent sur l’implication active des apprenants dans la construction de leur propre connaissance. Cependant, les études menées au Maroc révèlent un faible niveau de compétences en sciences de la vie et de la terre chez les élèves, révélant des lacunes...

This study aims to describe the learning environment that can influence the construction of scientific concepts among Moroccan students. It focuses on the role of students' initial conceptions in the teaching practice of Life and Earth Science (LES) teachers in Morocco. To conduct this study, we performed a quantitative analysis of collected data u...

Science teaching requires not only the acquisition of scientific knowledge, but also the appropriation of scientific ways of thinking and the development of a scientific and technological culture. According to the constructivist model, the teacher must consider the classroom as a research laboratory, enabling learners to apply scientific approaches...

Recently, the aims of science education have evolved towards developing citizens with scientific literacy and the ability to drive national progress. To achieve scientific literacy (the goal of all science education), individuals must possess knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes necessary for making informed decision...

The world of education in the 21st century is undergoing transformations that affect teaching methods and learning styles. The Moroccan education system is at the heart of this movement, demonstrating its will and institutional commitment through the pedagogical integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) into the teaching-learn...

Enseigner à l’ère du 21ème siècle qui est l’ère du numérique place l’école en tant qu’institution de socialisation devant le défi d’intégrer les compétences du 21ème siècle dans les pratiques d’enseignement-apprentissage en utilisant toutes les potentialités des technologies d’information et de communication (TIC) et développer ainsi des ressources...

This study was conducted to assess teachers’ metacognition development in the field of vocational training in Science Health nurses and techniques. However, the integration of the competency-based approach into the teaching/learning process requires a new paradigm that is centered on the learner. This situation opens the way for a pedagogical issue...

At the crossroads of the field of care and training, is the commitment to a quality, efficient approach, concerned with providing answers adapted to the needs and expectations of customers. Nursing education is now part of a new challenge: to constantly adapt to initiate and contribute to the development of tomorrow's skills, while positioning itse...

Des conceptions erronées relatives à la cellule ont été révélés lors d’une évaluation diagnostique chez les futurs enseignants des sciences de la vie et de la terre, en formation. Pour rechercher l’origine de ces conceptions erronées et les causes de leur persistance, nous avons cherché en amont comment le concept de la cellule est présenté par les...

Malgré sa popularité croissante dans l'enseignement, il existe peu d'études sur l'effet de la classe inversée sur l'amélioration des apprentissages. Pour tester l'efficacité de ce modèle, nous avons suivi une approche semi-expérimentale, en utilisant un pré-test et un post-test. Un groupe de futurs enseignants des sciences de la vie et de la terre...

Aim: This study aimed to assess nursing students' knowledge towards pressure injury prevention. The intent is to improve the undegraduate nursing curricula. Material and methods: The study adopted a cross-sectional descriptive research design. The study population consisted of 285 nursing students enrolled during the second semester of the 2022...

This article is related to nursing education. It concentrates on one of the main fields of the nursing discipline, that training. Thus, it studies the integration of reflective practice in nursing training as a condition for professionalization, especially with the reforms that have crossed this field of nursing training and the wind of change that...

Many studies worldwide have shown that students and pre-service teachers have misconceptions about cell biology concepts. In most cases, teachers are the source of their students’ misconceptions. In this regard, we conducted this study to investigate if Moroccan pre-service teachers of life and earth sciences have a good understanding of cell biolo...

Several studies have been carried out regarding secondary school student’s abilities in classifying plants in Latin-based countries, but never in the Arabic world. The aim of the current study is to measure Moroccan secondary high school students’ abilities in classifying plants. The data were collected by administering a task individually to 23...

The majority of students do not want to learn with traditional methods and practices; they have found it difficult to recall knowledge presented in the classroom. Teaching and learning practices in secondary school do not facilitate the success of all students who have few opportunities to develop a good understanding and memorization of scientific...

School failure is a difficult experience for the student and his family. The causes we have identified are varied. Some are related to the educational system, and others are extrinsic and related to the family or society. This paper will promote the notion of equity in education, as there is a close relationship between equality of opportunity and...

Biology can be perceived as a difficult subject to learn due to the conceptual leaps required to understand particular biological topics but now ICT facilitate many things to students and teachers, especially in Morocco. This study investigates the use of 3D animation as an aid for teaching in Moroccan universities. An experiment was conducted with...

Science of evolution is the basic of life and earth science (LES). It searches for mobilize the process and reasoning of tow scientific poles: functionalist and historical. Because it try together to reconstruct the history of living beings from their origins and to explain the working biological mechanisms in this process. Therefore, studies of ev...

Pour obtenir le certificat d’études primaires, secondaires collégiales ou secondaires qualifiants l’élève doit passer un examen normalisé au niveau régional ou au niveau national, dans les différentes matières enseignées. Dans cet article, nous avons traité les notes de la matière science de la vie et de la terre de l’examen normalisé et de contrôl...

Computer science as a school subject has been a regular media subject for more than 20 years. Indeed, all the educational systems of the world are now convinced that today's learners, brought to live in a hyper-scientific society. This research aims to discover the sources of computer difficulties encountered by some nursing students. We used two w...

All information and communication technologies (ICT) bring innovative resources, not only for the transmission of information, teaching objects but also for the exploration of learning strategies for learners by promoting the development of skills. Among the most promising resources in the teaching of experimental sciences, we find interactive grap...

To address the different learning styles of students, and because students can access animation from their computers, the use of animation in teaching has become increasingly popular. This paper reports aims to study the evolution of the conceptions of students in the first year of the baccalaureate, option life and earth sciences concerning the co...

The genetics portion of the second-year baccalaureateclass is a prime time for learning about the nature of science and scientific activity. In this regard, we attempted to identify the conceptions of six biology teachers by interviewing them about their classroom practices-specifically on the sequence of discovering the nature of genetic informati...

The flipped classroom is a model of teaching in which activities traditionally conducted in the classroom become homework activities, and activities that normally constitute homework become classroom activities. This pedagogical model has been proposed in several studies as an alternative educational approach to conventional methods, but its effect...

Cet article se propose d'éclairer et de déclencher une discussion à propos des différents obstacles qui limitent l'utilisation du portfolio au sein des instituts supérieurs des professions infirmières et techniques de santé au Maroc .Ceci se fait dans une perspective de développement de la pratique réflexive chez les étudiants en sciences infirmièr...

Introduction: Clinical practice in education is the backbone of a midwife's professional career, it is a fundamental component of the teaching and learning process that gives the student the opportunity to develop the competencies required for professional practice. However, experience in clinical practice creates constraints and difficulties. Obje...

The study aims to integrate new information and communication technologies applied in pedagogical practice into university training. It consists of the implementation of distance learning devices via a platform and an interactive learning support (CD-Rom) for the benefit of students and also for secondary school teachers of Life and Earth Sciences,...

Désormais, les sociétés seront confrontées à des problèmes de développement, de surpopulation et d’environnement qui impliqueraient de la part du citoyen des compétences et des prédispositions aptes à permettre une approche critique de ces problèmes. L’école et les actions éducatives seraient les seuls garants d’une éducation à l’environnement susc...

Dans l’esprit d’enrichir et d’améliorer la qualité de l’enseignement des Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre au Maroc, un accord a été conclu entre le Maroc et la France en 1990 pour instaurer le cycle de préparation au concours de l’Agrégation, afin de recruter des professeurs agrégés de haut niveau scientifique, pédagogique et didactique. Toutefois...

Ce travail a pour objet de déterminer l'impression des enseignants de la province d'Ouezzane au nord de Maroc sur l'intégration des technologies de l'information et de la communication dans le processus d'enseignement. Pour ce faire, on a réalisé un questionnaire pour plus de cinq cents enseignants de différentes matières enseignées au secondaire c...

To address the different learning styles of students, and because students can access animation from their computers, the use of animation in teaching has become increasingly popular. This paper reports aims to study the evolution of the conceptions of students in the first year of the baccalaureate, option life and earth sciences concerning the co...

This article aims to clarify and trigger a discussion about the different obstacles that limit the use of the portfolio within the higher institutes of nursing and health technology in Morocco, with a view to developing reflective practice among nursing students. It aims to shed light on one of the pedagogical devices recently introduced in nursing...

Les théories de l'apprentissage visent à expliquer le phénomène d'acquisition des connaissances. L'application directe d'une théorie de l'apprentissage permet de formuler des hypothèses de travail et des méthodes pour des recherches en didactique plus systématique. Dans ce travail, nous avons essayé de réaliser une synthèse des principales théories...

Bringing out the misconceptions is a primordial process in teaching and the learning of biology. This article aims to highlight Moroccan students' alternative conceptions, regarding animal and to elicit their ability to classify some animals. Data was collected using the Animal Classification Test (ACT) distributed at the Moroccan secondary school...

Cet article vise à repondre aux questions de recherche suivantes : 1) Comment sont organisées les questions des épreuves théoriques des Olympides internationales de biologie (IBO) ? 2) Quelles sont les différentes compétences testées par celles-ci, et comment ont-elles évolué dans le temps ? 3) A quel point nos épreuves nationales (Maroc) sont-elle...

La classe inversée : potentialités pour l’amélioration de l’enseignement/apprentissage des disciplines scientifiques

Textbooks play a significant role in the teaching-learning process as a result of didactic transposition, and as a vehicle employed for institutional learning. This descriptive study is devoted to conducting a thematic didactic analysis of textbooks of physics and chemistry of the common core of science and technology of secondary education in Moro...

Different teaching approaches have revealed that teaching is a complex process, a profession that must adapt to the specific needs of the learners, the nature of the subject taught and the general context of the training. However, the act of learning is a common activity. In the educational sciences there is no one-sided approach to the didactics o...

Information and communication technologies have over gained an added momentum in different social domains mainly in education. In effect, the integration, of these technologies in education has undergone a worldwide revolution, where the learning of the students was supported by the improvement of the quality of education. The aim of this study is...

In this research, we provide a brief history of the initial and in-service training of primary school teachers and a summary of the work on the issues involved in these processes. Then, we sketch a synthesis of research that shows that socio Learning is a revolutionary concept of training in the years to come. Finally, we illustrate the general str...

The Immunology is a recent scientific discipline. The complexity of its concepts and their ever-changing could present educational challenges for teachers and barriers to learning for learners. In this article, we have tried, through an investigation by a survey, to highlight the views of a group of students for some immunological concepts concerni...

This study aims to identify the moroccan's students conceptions of high school scientific option on the concept of respiration. The analysis was made from a questionnaires provided to students before and after the teaching of cellular respiration. First, it was found that the impact of the teaching of cellular respiration on the evolution of repres...

In this paper, we focus on how to qualify the physics sciences teachers in terms of integrating the computer simulation while teaching the physical concepts. The distance learning platform used is an effective alternative to continuous training happening in the face-to-face mode. Indeed, while the conventional training is limited in time and space,...

Clostridium acetobutylicum is an anaerobic bacterium which converts glucose into acids at a neutral pH and into solvents at a pH lower than 5·0. This paper shows the evolution of the levels of enzymes responsible for solvent formation: acetoacetate decarboxylase, acetoacetyl CoA acetate (butyrate) coenzyme A transferase and butanol dehydrogenase. T...

Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 using pyruvate as the sole carbon source produced mainly acetate and butyrate as end products of fermentation. Acetate and butyrate kinase activities were higher in cells growing in the presence of pyruvate than glucose, whereas the level of the acetoacetate decarboxylase, an enzyme involved in solvent formation,...

Pyruvate halogen analogs, 3-fluoropyruvate and 3-bromopyruvate, are toxic towardClostridium acetobutylicum. After mutagenesis with nitrosoguanidine, mutants resistant to these compounds were selected. In a normal batch culture regulated at pH 4.8, mutants quickly initiated the acid-solvent transition, accumulating more acetoin and lactate than the...

The activity of two enzymes involved in acetone production in Clostridium acetobutylicum, acetoacetate decarboxylase and coenzyme A transferase, was studied under acidogenic or solventogenic conditions. Acetoacetate decarboxylase activity was low under acidogenic conditions and after pyruvate addition. Under the same conditions, coenzyme A transfer...