| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 課程設計與潛能開發學系 === 101 === The purpose of this study was to investigate students' attitudes toward science based on the four variables: achievement, gender, grade level, and area of schools. The samples of the research consist of 1023 male and female students in Aceh province of Indonesia. The study was conducted at elementary and junior high school in urban and rural areas. An instrument named Test of Science Related Attitudes (TOSRA) was employed to collect the data concerning students' attitudes toward science. The independent t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to analyze the collected data under four variables.
The results were as following: first, female students reflected more positive attitudes toward science than male students within all sub-scales of TOSRA. Second, a high achiever in science learning showed higher attitudes toward science, while a low achiever revealed lower attitudes toward science. Third, there was no significant difference between elementary and junior high school students toward science attitudes. Finally, students from urban area showed more positive attitudes toward science than rural area.
The results may make important feedback for science educators to improve students' attitudes toward science, especially those of the male students that reveal lower attitudes toward science learning than females. The finding suggests that innovative programs and instructional methods, such as cooperative learning and science-based project, may raise students' attitudes toward science.
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