Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences

Yazarlar: , Behbood Mohammadzadeh

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Özet: This study examines the relationship between primary school students�?? attitudes towards science and their science achievement. The sampling of the study encompasses 330 subjects of whom % 64,2 (n=212) are female and % 35,8 (n=118) are male. Participants are from primary school students of eight graders in Izmir, Turkey. The research has applied the �??Science Attitude Scale�?� developed by Baykul (1990) which has an alpha reliability coefficient of .92, and a questionnaire was administered to the sample. The data were analyzed by ANOVA, t and Scheffe�??s tests, and correlation coefficients. The results of the study indicated that students�?? gender, socio-economic of their families, their perceptions of their parents' attitudes and their perceptions of science achievements have a significant effects on their attitudes towards science. The results of the study also depicted a meaningful relationship between the primary school students�?? attitudes towards science and their science achievement (r=.238, p

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