The Relationship among secondary scholl students' attitudes, motivation and self-efficacy beliefs toward chemistry lessons

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İçöz, Ömer Faruk

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among secondary school students’ attitudes, motivation and self-efficacy beliefs toward chemistry lessons and to determine the effect of grade levels, gender and school type on each dependent variable. The study was conducted during fall semester of 2011–2012 academic year in four high schools which are general public high school, Anatolian public high school, vocational public high school, and general private high school in Ankara. Cluster random sampling method was applied and 813 students taking chemistry course participated to the study. Attitude Scale Toward Chemistry (ASTC), Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire-Turkish Version (MSLQ-TV), and High School Chemistry Self Efficacy Scale for cognitive skills (HCSS) were used as measuring instruments. The collected data were analyzed with correlational analysis and with three-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) for each dependent variable. v The results of the analyses displayed that there were high correlations among students’ attitudes, motivation, and self-efficacy beliefs toward chemistry lessons. Furthermore, the results showed that school type and gender of the students had ignificant effect on their attitudes, motivation, and self-efficacy beliefs toward chemistry lessons. For instance, students in private public high school had the highest and students in vocational public high school had the lowest attitudes, and girls were more motivated than boys toward chemistry lessons. However, grade level of the students had no significant effect on their attitude, motivation, and self-efficacy beliefs toward chemistry lessons.

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Students, Students, Self-perception., Self-efficacy., Chemistry, Motivation in education.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22022

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Ö. F. İçöz, “The Relationship among secondary scholl students’ attitudes, motivation and self-efficacy beliefs toward chemistry lessons,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.