Publication details
Vnímanie fyziky žiakmi základných škôl so zameraním na vplyv genderu a ročníka
| Title in English | The lower secondary school pupils perception of physics with the focus on the influence of gender and year of study |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Technológia vzdelávania (Slovenský učiteľ) |
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| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | questionnaire; gender; attitudes toward physics; year of study; lower secondary school pupils |
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| Description | The main aim of the study is find out Czech lower secondary school pupils attitudes toward physics as a school subject. Next, the influence of gender and year of study was investigated. The sample size was created by 390 pupils. The number of respondents from the grades was approximately similar, the higher number was from 9th year of study (n = 105), the lowest one from 8th year of study (n = 88), from the 6th were 93 pupils and rest was from 7th (n = 104). The number of boys was 205, the rest was girls (n = 185). The questionnaire with 25 scaled items was as research tool, the items were divided into four categories by the using of factor analysis: 1. Future life and physics; 2. Physical experiments; 3. The interest in physics; 4. The relevance of physics. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used for the determination of differences among groups. The boys hag got the more positive attitudes toward physics in comparison with girls. The highest score achieved the pupils from the 6th year of study and the lowest one pupils from the 7th year of study. |