High School Students’ Attitude towards Science

Abstract

Attitude towards Science indicates feeling of an individual or a group concerning Science like faith in scientific method, opinion about scientists, value of Science, interaction of Science with individual and society, opinion held about Science related social issues.  This piece of research work aimed to find the attitude towards Science of Ninth standard students. This investigation is a part of an Experimental Study. The data was collected from 35 English Medium students those who studied under State Board of Education, Tamil Nadu. The tool, attitude towards Science developed by Barmby, Kind and Jones (2008) was used to collect the data. The tool has 37 statements.  Out of which 32 items are favourably worded and the remaining 5 items are unfavourably worded.  Likert’s method of summated ratings was adopted to find the level of attitude.  This scale has face validity, content validity and construct validity.  The reliability of the tool is 0.86. The result shows that the Ninth standard students have a favourable attitude towards Science.