Karchung
Zhemgang Lower Secondary School, Zhemgang, Bhutan
Received: Aug 03, 2021 / Revised: Sept 13, 2021/ Accepted: Sept 22, 2021
Abstract
This study was conducted in three schools under Trashi Yangtse Dzongkhag. The main purpose of this study was to determine the grade seven and eight student’s attitudes towards learning science and to find the factors affecting student’s attitudes towards learning science. A total of 279 students (age 11-19) answered a 15-item questionnaire adapted from the attitude towards the science inventory. The study population consisted of 126 male and 153 female students. In terms of grade, the population consisted of 137 students from grade seven and 142 students from grade eight. To find the factors affecting students’ attitudes towards learning science, focused group interviews were conducted with eight students (four boys and four girls) selected randomly from both grades from each school. Recording, computing, and analysis of the quantitative data were done with the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS-22). The findings from the quantitative analysis revealed that grade seven and eight students’ attitude towards learning science was negative. In addition, descriptive statistics showed that there was a decline in favourable attitude with the increase in age. It was also found that male students possessed a slightly favourable attitude towards science compared to female students. Focused group interviews indicated that several factors like difficulties in learning science, subject teacher, and the vastness of the contents affected students’ attitude towards learning science.
Keywords Population, Recording, Learning Science, Bhutan
How to cite this article
Karchung (2021). Student’s Attitude towards Science Learning in Lower Secondary School under Tashi Yantse Dzongkhag. Science Archives, Vol. 2 (3), 227-237. http://dx.doi.org/10.47587/SA.2021.2313
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