Abstract:

The aim of the research is to analyze the 6th grade secondary school students' attitude towards science course in terms of their gender, parental professions, the number of the books they read and their interest in science. A questionnaire, specially prepared for this research, was used to examine the attitude of the students towards the science course. The surveys of this study accomplished 318 sixth grade students in two different schools of Dulkadiroğlu, Kahramanmaraş. The data collection was carried out during the 2016-2017 academic years. One way analysis of variance and independent samples t test were used. According to the research results, the students' attitude towards the science course were at high level and positive. The students who are interested in the science course were observed to have considerably high attitude towards the science course. However, no significant and meaningful relationship was found between students' science course attitude and their gender and parental profession.

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