Student Views on Attitudes towards Chemistry Laboratory Skills

Abstract

This study aims to determine the views about the attitude towards chemistry laboratory skills of first-year science students taking the General Chemistry Laboratory course. The sample of the study consists of 33 students studying in the 1st year of the Science Education Department of a state university in Ankara and the study was carried out in the fall semester of the 2018-2019 academic year. Throughout the work, in which the qualitative research approach was adopted and the survey research model was used, an open-ended question form was used as a data collection tool. As a result of the research; it was determined that the majority of the students were able to better define the experiment equipment and chemical substances thanks to their laboratory studies. Also, taking into account the feedback from their friends and lecturers contributed to them. Furthermore, most of the students’ laboratory studies affected their communication with their groupmates and lecturers very well and well. Finally, thanks to laboratory studies, they feel ready for chemical substance information, dangerous effects of chemicals, manual dexterity, and naming knowledge. In addition, the majority of the students felt themselves sufficient about the adequacy of knowledge and skills related to the chemistry laboratory.

Keywords

• Chemistry laboratory
• Attitudes towards chemistry laboratory skills
• Student opinion

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