Research Article

Pre-service Elementary Teachers’ Attitudes towards Chemistry Course

Volume: 4 Number: 2 July 1, 2017
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Pre-service Elementary Teachers’ Attitudes towards Chemistry Course

Abstract

The current research aims to investigate the attitudes of pre-service elementary teachers towards chemistry course according to their gender and the type of high school that they graduated from. As a scanning model, the current study was conducted in spring semester of 2015-2016 academic years with the students of Elementary Education Department at Faculty of Education in Pamukkale University. 99 students who were attending the chemistry course in their first year curriculum participated in the study. The data collection tool was "Attitudes Towards Chemistry Course Scale" which was developed by Hançer, Uludağ and Yılmaz (2007). Whether the attitude scores of participants changed according to gender and the high school that they graduated from were tested with independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA. According to the analyses, the students were observed to have negative attitudes towards chemistry class and these negative attitudes did vary according to neither gender nor the high school that graduated from.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Studies on Education

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Seçil Erökten
PAMUKKALE UNIV
Türkiye

Publication Date

July 1, 2017

Submission Date

December 11, 2016

Acceptance Date

December 11, 2016

Published in Issue

Year 2017 Volume: 4 Number: 2

APA
Erökten, S. (2017). Pre-service Elementary Teachers’ Attitudes towards Chemistry Course. International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 4(2), 115-121. https://doi.org/10.21449/ijate.275803

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