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A study on Factors in School Science Influencing Students' Attitudes Toward Science  

Lee, Mee-Kyeong (Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation)
Jeong, Eun-Young (Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.24, no.5, 2004 , pp. 946-958 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate factors in school science influencing students' attitudes toward science. In order to achieve the purpose, a total of 1,002 students at 5th, 7th, and 10th grade levels was sampled and surveys were carried out to examine attitudes toward science and reasons that students liked and disliked science. According to the results, male students liked science more than female students did at all grade levels and 10th graders liked science less than 5th and 7th graders did. The main reason that students liked science was experiments. And the main reason that students disliked science was science teaching methods including science activities, instructional materials, science textbooks and science teachers. Among the reasons that students liked science, factors that affected attitudes toward science were contents and characteristics of science subjects and experiments. Among the reasons that students disliked science, factors that affected attitudes toward science were experiments and science teaching methods. The results suggest that it is desirable to apply appropriate methods according to students' interests in science to develop positive attitudes toward science effectively.
Keywords
attitudes toward science; reasons that students like/dislike science;
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