AKTAMIŞ, Hilal Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi, Turkey , ÇALIŞKAN, Serap Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi - Buca Eğitim Fakültesi, Turkey , AKTAMIŞ, İbrahim Seyhan Aydın-İncirliova Anadolu Lisesi, Turkey

EXAMINING SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ IN THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARDS SOLVING PROBLEMS OF PHYSICS

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In this research, the objective was to determine how the students’ attitudes towards solving problems in physics changed and improved throughout their 4-year secondary school lives. The participants of the research which was conducted using relational survey method in descriptive type are the students studying at 9, 10, 11 and 12th grades in the fall of 2011-2012 at a secondary school in a city in the Aegean region of Turkey. In order to measure the students’ attitudes towards solving problems of physics, 5-point Likert type Scale for Attitudes towards Solving Problems of Physics was used. As a result of reliability study of the scale, Cronbach Alpha coefficient was found to be .96. As a result of the analyses, there were statistically significant differences in terms of problem solving attitudes of male and female students in favor of male students; in terms of problem solving attitudes of physics of students who were good at physics and bad at physics in favor of the ones who were good at physics. Besides, it was found out that as the level of the students increased, there was a decrease in the students’ attitude towards solving problems of physics.

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Physics Curriculum , Problem Solving Ability , Attitudes

Mustafa Kemal University Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences

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