An Assessment of Science-Related Attitudes among Freshmen Students in a Philippine University
Keywords:
assessment, attitudes, science, studentsAbstract
This study explored the freshmen students’ attitudes toward science who were taking
physical science course. There were one hundred and seventy-eight (178) respondents. The
research instrument on “Science-Related Attitudes” by author in [4] was used and is
designed to measure the following seven (7) distinct science-related attitude scales: Social
Implications of Science (S); Normality of Scientists (N); Attitudes to Scientific Inquiry (I);
Adoption of Scientific Attitudes (A); Enjoyment of Science Lessons (E); Leisure Interest in
Science (L); and Career Interest in Science (C). The profile of each scale mean score was
calculated, plotted and compared to the profile of the field-tested sample. It was found out that the
science-related attitude scale on Normality of Scientists (N) has the least mean score while that of
Adoption of Scientific Attitudes (A) and Enjoyment of Science Lessons (E) scale got the highest
mean score.
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