Abstrakt

A Study On The Scientific Attitude Of The Secondary School Students

Jyothi Victoria

The main objective of the present study is to study students' attitudes towards science. The success of science has more to do with an attitude common to scientists than with a particular method. This attitude is one of inquiry, experimentation, and humility before the facts. The main objective of the present study is to examine the effect of type of management of the school, locality, and gender on the scientific attitude of the secondary school students. Scientific Attitude Scale prepared by Avinash Grewal and published by National Psychological Corporation (1977) is a standardized tool which was used for determining a student's scientific attitude. The scale consists of 20 items. A sample of 100 secondary school students of class IX students from government and private schools of Telangana, test was employed for analysis of the data. The findings are, the private students had significantly higher levels of scientific attitude compared to the government students, the rural students had similarly high and low levels of scientific attitude like of urban students and the female students had significantly similar, more or less levels of scientific attitude like that of the male students.