Development of the Attitude towards Science Scale: A Validity and Reliability Study

Özcan, Hasan; Koca, Esra

doi:10.14689/ejer.2020.85.6

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“…Yousaf (2018), asserts that Indonesia therefore, should adopt a model of supervision that fosters and stimulates creativity among students and teachers. As otherwise, the state of the education system will remain abysmal and students will not be able to compete in the market (Owan & Agunwa, 2019;Ozcan & Esra, 2020;Rusman, 2020). Indeed, humans are generally motivated by three things when it comes to choice of professions, that is, a posit power or authority, prestige, and monetary benefits.…”

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The influence of school principal supervision, motivation, and work satisfaction on teachers’ performance

Suriagiri

Akrim

Norhapizah

2022

CJES

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This paper aims to explore the relationship between school principal supervision, motivation and work satisfaction vis-a-vis teacher’s performance in Indonesian education system. The accountability and quality assurance mechanism developed by the Indonesian government in the form of principal supervision works and directly impacts teacher’s performance. It binds teacher to follow predefined patterns and if they deviate, they can face penalties. Moreover, motivation is linked with choice of profession and excellence in profession. Motivation can be drawn from monetary benefits, power associated with profession and prestige, or social status and respect. It has been observed that teachers are usually demotivated by lack of monetary and social benefits. It has been noted that teacher’s performance enhances dramatically when they’=are not under undue pressure and are given their due liberty. Performance also increases when work place environment is suitable for nurturing the professional and personal skills of teachers. Furthermore, teachers are well motivated when they receive approval from their supervisors and when their colleagues were more cooperative. This also compensates for the lower monetary benefits and prestige associated with teaching. Data is collected from teaching sector of Indonesia via questionnaires. This study will help in ensuring a bright educational future for next generation in Indonesia. Keywords: Principal Supervision, Work Satisfaction, Motivation, Teacher Performance

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The influence of school principal supervision, motivation, and work satisfaction on teachers’ performance

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Akrim

Norhapizah

2022

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“…In addition, the students referred that their imagination and engineering skills were developed and that students wanted to choose STEM fields as a profession in the future. In the research carried out with 7th graders, Özcan & Koca (2019a) stated that STEM activities positively affect group work. Genç & Uğraş (2018) claimed that STEM activities encourage students to collaborative learning.…”

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The Effect of Engineering Design-based STEM Activities on the Refugee Students’ Sense of School Belonging

2022

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In the research, the effect of engineering design-based STEM activities on the school belonging to seventh-grade refugee students was examined. A mixed-method was used in the research. The research sample consists of 32 Syrian refugee students studying in the 7th grade in the fall semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. The study lasted for ten weeks, with two lessons per week. In addition, the “School Attachment Scale for Children and Adolescents” was used as a quantitative data collection tool. On the other hand, qualitative data collection tools were used as “STEM Education Reflective Diary Form, STEM Education Interview Form, and Teacher Interview Form,” which were prepared based on quantitative scale items. Statistical methods were used to analyze the quantitative data obtained in the research, and content analysis was used in the qualitative data analysis. The quantitative data showed a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores. As a result, It was concluded that the engineering design-based STEM activities carried out contributed positively to the individual and social development of Syrian refugee students; their positive attitudes towards the lesson and the teacher impacted their sense of belonging to the school.

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“…The results of statistical analysis based on EFA and CFA showed that the survey was reliable and acceptable to identify the STEM -A of high school students. The developed survey was not an adaptation of a survey as in other studies (Ozcan & Koca, 2019;Unlu et al, 2016;Yilmaz et al, 2017). The demographic characteristics of Turkish students were considered in the developed survey.…”

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“…Many researchers (Guzey, Harwell, & Moore, 2014;Kier, Blanchard, Osborne, & Albert, 2014;Landicho, 2020) have developed surveys on attitudes towards STEM based on the demographics of their own country. Some researchers (Ozcan & Koca, 2019;Unlu, Dokme, & Unlu, 2016;Yilmaz, Koyunkaya, Guler, & Guzey, 2017) in our country adapted the developed STEM attitude surveys to our students. The aim of studies in this field should be to develop attitude survey considering the social and cultural structure of the country where students live.…”

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The Determination of High School Students’ Attitudes Towards STEM

Gok

2021

MJESTP

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The study aims to determine the attitudes of high school students toward STEM. During the development of the survey, a pilot study and the main study was conducted. The pilot study was conducted primarily for the collection and statistical analysis of the research data. Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis was carried out for the pilot survey. The statistical results show that the pilot study was reliable and acceptable. The main study was conducted for the comparison and discussion of the research data. The sample of the study comprised 2118 high school students in 12 high schools during the academic year 2018-2019 in Izmir, Turkey. The results showed that the mean score of students’ attitudes on STEM decreased from 9th grade to 12th grade in both the metropolitan and suburban areas of the city. Results for gender differences show that the mean score of male high school students’ attitude towards STEM was higher than the mean score of female high school students in both metropolitan and suburban areas.

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Development of the Attitude towards Science Scale: A Validity and Reliability Study

Cited by 12 publications

References 26 publications

The influence of school principal supervision, motivation, and work satisfaction on teachers’ performance

The influence of school principal supervision, motivation, and work satisfaction on teachers’ performance

The Effect of Engineering Design-based STEM Activities on the Refugee Students’ Sense of School Belonging

The Determination of High School Students’ Attitudes Towards STEM

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