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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2012.32.5.866

The Analysis of Level and Structure of Natural Science High School Students' Science Motivation Compared to General High School Students'  

Ha, Minsu (The Ohio State University)
Kim, Miyoung (Chonbuk National University)
Park, Kyung-Hwa (Chonbuk National University)
Lee, Jun-Ki (Chonbuk National University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.32, no.5, 2012 , pp. 866-878 More about this Journal
Abstract
The Natural Science High School is specialized in vocational education or training related to natural sciences such as biology or chemistry. Therefore, natural science high school students are expected to possess a high level of science learning motivation. This study aims to explore natural science high school students' level and structure of science learning motivation by comparing students in general high school. One hundred ninety three students from a natural science high school and 208 from a general high school participated in this study. We administered a questionnaire that consisted of seven science motivation components: 1) career motivation; 2) science grade motivation; 3) understanding the relevance of scientific knowledge; 4) need for learning science; 5) self-determination; 6) self-efficacy; and 7) attitudes toward science class. We employed independent t-test, path analysis, bivariate correlation, and stepwise multiple-regression for the statistical analyses. Our findings illustrated that the natural science high school students' levels on all seven variables were significantly lower than the general high school students.' The path analysis illustrated that career motivation and science grade motivation had relatively stronger influence on self-determination and self-efficacy in the natural science high school student sample than in the general high student sample. The explanatory powers of four independent variables (career motivation, science grade motivation, understanding the relevance of scientific knowledge, and need for learning science) predicting self-determination and self-efficacy were 30% higher in the natural science high school student sample than in the general science high student sample. These results suggested that natural science high school students' science learning motivation may be easier to change by extrinsic motivations such as career and science grade motivation.
Keywords
natural science high school; science learning motivation; vocational education; science education;
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