Abstract:

The aim of present research is to examine whether the attitudes of elementary school students towards science are varied according to certain variables. Survey model was used in the study and cluster sampling strategy was utilized to recruit participants. The total of 1041 elementary school students were participants in this research. Science and Technology Course Attitude Scale (Yaşar, & Anagün, 2008) was used to collect data. It was seen that the data did not spread of the normal distribution and that the non-parametric techniques could be used. For this, in the analysis of the research data, the Mann-Whitney U test was used for frequency, percentage, arithmetic average, paired comparison among the groups, and the Kruskal-Wallis test for multiple comparisons. The level of significance in the analysis of the data was accepted as .05. The results showed that the elementary school students have positive attitudes towards science. Female students, students from urban schools, and students that want to occupy in science related jobs in their future have significantly higher scores than their counter peers. Moreover, the scores differed significantly as the students’ families’ income and their education level increases

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