Identification of primary education students' views about science subjects

Abstract

The problem of the research is to identify the 8(th) class students' attitudes and views related to science course, process of course and perception levels to the subjects in the 7(th) class Science Course Curriculum. Descriptive Scan Model has been used in the study. In order to identify the students' attitudes to the Science Course, Quinary Likert Scale including 15 questions has been applied. Attitude Scale Reliability Parameter (Cronbach Alfa) has been calculated as 0,78. Besides, the students have been asked 3 more open-ended questions. The data have been analyzed with one sided variance analyses on SPSS 11.0 packet program, independent T test, percentage and frequency distributions methods. The Document Method has been used in the identification of sensorial features. At the end of the research suggestions have been improved from analyses results and student views. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved