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Effects of Reading Materials about Scientists on the Attitude Toward Science and Images of Scientists - Focusing on Gender Differences  

Jeon, Hwa-Young (Seoul National University)
Yeo, Sang-Ihn (Inchon National University of Education)
Woo, Kyu-Whan (Seoul National University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.22, no.1, 2002 , pp. 22-31 More about this Journal
Abstract
This research was designed to verify the effects of reading materials about scientists on the attitude toward science and images of scientists. The studies have been conducted for students in the tenth grade science class. In experimental group, students were instructed to read the reading material regarding the role models of five female scientists in class, while a control group were furnished with those of male scientists. Before and after instruction, the pre- and post-test about attitudes toward science and images of scientists were administered. In general, it was found that they successfully cast away the stereotyped images of scientists with the aid of the reading materials. There were significant differences between two groups in gender of a scientist (p = .000). Namely, more students in the experimental group had drawn the pictures of female scientists than those in the control group. In addition, test score in attitude toward science have shown significant differences between pre- and post-test (p < .001). And, the experimental group score is higher than control group (p < .05). Accordingly, this research has verified that the reading materials about scientists, especially of female scientists, can have favorable influence on the attitudes and images of scientists.
Keywords
reading material about scientists; images of scientists; attitudes toward science;
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