Οι στάσεις των μαθητών για τις φυσικές επιστήμες: τέσσερις χώρες, ένα μοντέλο

Περίληψη

Using a structural equation model this research study investigated the student attitudes towards science of the 8th grade students in Cyprus. This study proposes a model of the effects of educational background of the family, school climate, reinforcement and teaching on student attitudes toward science. Through the use of LISREL, a structural equation model was developed with data obtained from the TIMSS-R 1999 database, the model contains three exogenous constructs -the educational background of the family, the reinforcement and school climate- and two endogenous constructs -leaching and student attitudes. The study demonstrated that reinforcement and school climate influence teaching; the family's educational background, the environmental reinforcement: and the school climate influence student attitudes toward science, and teaching has direct effect on science attitudes, in general, the Cyprus model fits the data from Australia, Canada, and Korea, although there are some minor differences among them.