Abstract:

Education plays a decisive role in the level of development of communities. As it will be clear when compared the levels of education in developed countries with the levels of education in other countries, the main reason for this is the attitudes and efforts of individuals who make society towards scientific research. Since the activities in this field will be quite weak in societies of non-scientific individuals, individuals can use non-scientific ways to solve problems. This situation, which has many examples in the world, as it can cause them to live depending on advanced societies by increasing their problems instead of solving them, should vaccinate the scientific attitude of each individual in society and create the necessary ground for scientific research. The study should not be delayed in this goal, and educational activities should be organized to provide children with a scientific attitude in the early age. To develop a scientific attitude, from very young age, individuals of all ages must create scientific work environments. It is a fact that work is done in this context. However, knowing where we are in the process of acquiring scientific attitude is very important in terms of making future plans. Therefore, the study studied the differences of the scientific attitudes of 6th grade students according to the variables of gender, mother education level, father education level and family income levels. The study’s sample consists of a total of 400 students, including 195 girls and 205 men, who studied in the central districts of Samsun in the second semester of the 2013-2014 academic year. In the collection of research data, the scientific attitude scale was developed by Moore and Foy (1997) to determine the level of scientific attitude of students and adapted to the Turkish by Demirbaş and Yağbasan (2006). The research data was studied according to the lower dimensions of the scale, and the analysis used t-test and anova test. The study found no significant differences in the lower dimensions of the scale, and significant differences in the lower dimensions of the scale compared to the other variables. According to the research findings, the mother’s education level, the father’s education level, and the income levels of the families have been found to have positive changes in the student’s scientific attitudes as they rise. In accordance with these findings, the scientific attitudes of the students were proposed in the form of developing activities and expanding the scope of the research to other stages of education.   Keywords: attitude, scientific attitude, student scientific attitude