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Relationship between Attitudes Toward Science and Science Achievement  

Lee, Mee-Kyeong (Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation)
Kim, Kyung-Hee (Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.24, no.2, 2004 , pp. 399-407 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purposes of the study were to examine students' attitudes toward science and to investigate the relationship between attitudes toward and achievement in science. In order to achieve the purposes, the data collected from the National Assessment of Educational Achievement in 2001 were analyzed in this study. Approximately 1% of students within the entire population of the Grades 6, 9, 10 were randomly selected for the National Assessment of Educational Achievement in 2001. Students at all grade levels had slightly positive attitudes toward science. Positive attitudes toward science were higher at elementary level. Male students had more positive attitudes than female students and the difference in attitudes between male and female students was statistically significant. Also, there were significant differences in students' attitudes toward science among regions including Seoul, metropolitan city, small city and town. In addition, achievement in science was significantly and positively related to attitudes toward science, that is, the higher the students achieved, the more positive their attitudes toward science.
Keywords
achievement; attitudes toward science; gender difference;
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