Abstract

The study considered the effectiveness of an online educational program aimed at developing intellectual security and tolerance among secondary school students in Al-Karak, Jordan. The study took a semi-experimental approach with sixty students at Aye Secondary School, distributed as thirty students each in the experimental and control groups. The educational program consisted of six Zoom training sessions with the experimental group. Measures of intellectual security and intellectual tolerance values were constructed and thirty items were distributed across five variables: moderation of thoughts and principles, systematic analysis, values of tolerance in expressing opinion, moderate criticism, innovation, and development. Following a test of the study instrument for reliability and consistency outside the original study sample, pre- and post-tests were conducted with the experimental and control groups. The results suggest the effectiveness of the proposed educational program (Zoom sessions) in developing intellectual security and tolerance. Statistically significant differences ( ≤ 0.01) were not only found between the two groups in favor of the experimental group, but also between the experimental group’s pre- and post-test results in favor of the latter ( ≤ 0.01). The study suggests there is a need for such programs to develop students’ intellectual security and tolerance values by integrating them within the Islamic education curriculum.