DETERMINING AND COMPARING THE PHYSICS ATTITUDE STATE AT A SOCIAL SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL: AN EXAMPLE OF DENIZLI IBRAHIM CINKAYA SOCIAL SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL

Year 2015, Volume: 2 , 43 - 48, 01.09.2015

Ozkan Kahraman

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate and determine the Physics
Attitude Level of Social Science Secondary High School students, to compare
them based on gender and grade variables and to determine correlation between
physics achievement and physics attitude. The sample of the study was selected
as an accessible population by using sample of convenience way. It covers 409
students of preparatory, ninth, tenth and eleventh grade levels, 246 were
female and 163 were male, attending at Social Science Secondary High School in
Denizli. Survey method, the most common descriptive study methods of
quantitative approach, was used. There was only one instrument to get data,
Physics Attitude Questionnaire, consisting of thirty questions. It was applied
to subjects and analyzed with SPSS 17.0. In the analysis of the data,
independent sample t-test for comparisons based on gender and class variable,
one way ANOVA test for comparisons based on class variable and Pearson
correlation were used. As a result of the study, average level of physics
attitude was found at all the grade levels. According to gender variable,
significant difference was found in favor of boys in general and for ninth and
tenth grade levels. According to class level variable, significant difference
was found between both eleventh and ninth and eleven and preparatory grade
levels in favor of preparatory and ninth grades. In addition to them,
correlation between physics achievement and physics attitude was found
significant in general and for ninth grade students.

Keywords

Physics attitude, social science high school, gender, class level

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