초.중.고 학생의 과학 및 과학교과서에 대한 태도 조사 연구

Surevey on the Attitudes toward Science and Science Courses of Primary and Secondary Students

A survey on the attitudes toward science and science courses was conducted with three hundred students of primary and secondary schools. The instrument used for measuring attitudes was TOSRA(Fraser, 1981). The subjects was sampled by stratified cluster sampling method. The major findings of this study are as follows. 1. The attitude scores has no significant differences among the students of large city, mid-sized city and rural areas. 2. The attitude scores of male and female students has ststistically significant difference. 3. Primary students has significantly higher attitude scores than secondary students. 4. In case of senior high schools, science-major students has significantly higher attitude scores than humanity-major students.