An investigation of ninth grade students attitudes toward daily life chemistry

Factors Affecting Secondary Schools Students’ Attitudes toward Learning Chemistry: A Review of Literature

“…Among the eleven factors, gender was tackled in 19 studies out of 36. Thirteen clearly showed their significant main effect (p < 0.05 (Can, 2012;Heng & Karpudewan, 2015;Kenar et al, 2015;Kubiatko et al, 2017;Menis, 1983), a highly significant effect with p<0.01 (Anwer et al, 2012) and others with a very high significant main effect of p < 0.001 (Cheung, 2009b;Heng & Karpudewan, 2015;Hofstein et al, 1977;Salta & Tzougraki, 2004). However, six studies showed no effect of gender on the attitude of students (Akcay et al, 2010;Inye, 2011;Montes et al, 2018;Najdi, 2018;Ngila & Makewa, 2014;Sakariyau et al, 2016), (p > 0.05).…”

“…Social-environmental factors (parents, peers, friends, social-economic class, and social-cultural context) were also found to induce students' attitudes toward chemistry learning, as emphasized in three studies (Akarsu & Kariper, 2013;Inye, 2011;Kenar et al, 2015). Though Inye (2011) did not found a significant effect of parents on students' attitudes toward science, some studies (Akarsu & Kariper, 2013;Kenar et al, 2015) showed parents' role in developing attitudes of students. One of the reasons for this finding may be that each parent (either the mother or father) has ambitions and aspirations that he/she wants for his/her child's future education and occupation.…”

“…Unfortunately, there were no reliable results that were provided by their works. While in some studies, girls were found to develop favorable attitudes toward learning chemistry when compared to their boys' counterparts (Heng & Karpudewan, 2015;Hong & Lin, 2011;Kenar et al, 2015;Liaghatdar et al, 2011), this was not the case in some other studies that proved the positive attitudes of boys toward chemistry compared to girls in general (Anwer et al, 2012;Cheung, 2009b;Kousa et al, 2018;Menis, 1983;Salta & Tzougraki, 2004;Seba et al, 2013). Furthermore, other studies highlighted that boys' and girls' attitudes were equivalent to chemistry education (Akcay et al, 2010;Najdi, 2018;Ngila & Makewa, 2014;Sakariyau et al, 2016).…”

“…No 9 Social, environmental factors (Kenar et al, 2015) A significant difference was observed while considering the mother's educational status (p < 0.05). Also, a significant difference was observed according to the income level variable (p < 0,05)…”

“…No (Montes et al, 2018) No significant effect of gender on attitude was found (p = 0.57). No (Kenar et al, 2015) A significant effect of gender on attitude was found with p = 0.002 Yes (+) (Sakariyau, Taiwo, & Ajagbe, 2016) There was no significant difference between male and female attitudes towards science (t-calculated = 0.42< t-table value of 1.97 at 0.05 level of significance).…”