Assessing the Science Laboratory Learning Environments at the Senior Secondary Level in An Indian School

Gupta, Adit; Koul, Rekha; Sharma, Moolraj

doi:10.5958/2230-7311.2015.00001.x

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“…The result of the study confirms with the conclusion of Venville and Dawson (2004) that the purpose of practical activities for the students is to provide them with opportunities for the development of their scientific skills and understanding of the very nature of science as supported by Gupta et al (2015). The result of the study contradicted the postulation of Kwok (2015) that an open-ended inquiry approach seldom takes place in laboratories and on the result of the study conducted by Henderson and Fisher (1998) that all five indicators of the Science Laboratory Environment Inventory (SLEI) were related positively on students' attitude, except that open-endedness was related negatively with students' attitudes in some students' samples.…”

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“…However, the result in Table 1 shows that student cohesiveness has no significant relationship with students' liking for chemistry theory lessons because during their theory classes they were working independently as well as their behavioral tendency to learn chemistry. The result of the study also supports the research findings of Gupta et al (2015) that there is a relationship between science laboratory environment and the attitude towards chemistry lessons.…”

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“…Furthermore, it was affirmed by Opateye (2014) suggesting that laboratory was effective to develop students' conceptual understanding and scientific thinking skills as well as to foster a positive attitude towards science. This study is also anchored to the proposition of Gupta et al (2015) that students' attitude towards science can be attributed to the science laboratory environment and thus the better the laboratory environment the more positive are the students' attitudes towards science.…”

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Science Laboratory Environment and Attitude Towards Chemistry Lessons of Senior High School Students

Elesio

2023

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This study determined which domain of science laboratory environment best influenced the attitude towards chemistry lessons on senior high school Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) students. The research design used in this study are non-experimental quantitative and descriptive-correlational technique, utilizing universal sampling procedure. The total respondents were 144 Grade 12 STEM students enrolled in a sectarian school of Davao City. Survey questionnaires on science laboratory environment and attitude towards chemistry lessons were used as the research instrument in data gathering. Utilizing the mean scores; science laboratory environment and attitude towards chemistry lessons among the respondents were both assessed at a high level. Moreover, obtained data revealed that there is a significant relationship between science laboratory environment and attitude towards chemistry lessons among senior high school STEM students. Furthermore, open-endedness and future intention to study science significantly influenced students’ attitude towards chemistry lessons, but its open-endedness best influenced among all the domains of science laboratory environment.

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Science Laboratory Environment and Attitude Towards Chemistry Lessons of Senior High School Students

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2023

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“…Subsequent analysis revealed a significant predictive relationship between teachers' perception of science laboratory learning environments and their teaching and learning satisfaction. Gupta, Koul and Sharma (2015) investigated that learning science can be made more interesting by providing the students hands on experience through experimentation and project work etc. This is especially true for science laboratories where students get a chance to test their ideas and learn difficult science concepts by performing experiments.…”

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An Assessment Of Physics Laboratory Learning Environments, Teacher Interpersonal Behaviour And Their Association With Student s ' Attitude Towards Physics In Higher Secondary Schools of Jammu City

Lata¹,

Gupta²

2021

MJESTP

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This study presents an assessment of the physics laboratory learning environments, teachers' interpersonal behaviour and students' attitudes towardsphysics at thehigher secondary level. Two widely used questionnaires, i.e. Science Laboratory Inventory (SLEI) and the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI) along with an Attitude towards Science Scale was used to assess the perceptions of students about physics laboratory learning environments. The sample consisted of300 students taken from six higher secondary schools of Jammu city. The results of the study showed that students had positive perceptions about their physics laboratory learning environment. Students were found to be helpful, cooperative and supportive of each other in the laboratory classes. They rated their teachers in terms of exhibiting helpful and friendly behaviour, understanding of their needs and were giving freedom and responsibility in the classroom. Significant associations between student attitudes towards physics and physics laboratory learning environments were observed. Also, significant gender differences were found, and the results showed that female students felt that they were more cooperative, interested and encouraged in their physics laboratory classroom as compared to male students. No significant associations have been found to exist between teacher-student interactions and attitude towardsphysics.

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“…In a study conducted by Gupta, Koul, and Sharma (2015) the student's perceptions of the Science laboratory learning environments at the Senior Secondary were studied. This study was the first of its kind in India and reports the use of the modified form of the SLEI for assessing the students' perceptions of their learning environments in general science laboratories.…”

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An assessment of the chemistry laboratory learning environments and teacher student interactions at the higher secondary level

Gupta¹,

Sharma²

2017

IJRSE

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Chemistry laboratories provide students with a chance to test their ideas and learn difficult concepts by performing experiments. The study assesses students' perceptions of their learning environments and their teacher-student interactions in a chemistry laboratory setting at the higher secondary level in selected private schools using the Science Laboratory Environment Inventory (SLEI) and Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI). The sample consists of 250 students studying in classes 11th and 12th. The learning environments in the chemistry laboratory at the higher secondary level show that the mean scores of the preferred form of the SLEI are higher than the actual form. This means that the students' preferred learning environments that are more open ended in terms of decision making on the part of the students, seek better material support to perform the laboratory experiments in terms of equipment, chemicals and more cohesiveness with one another in terms of providing support for each other etc. The results on the QTI show that the students see their teachers as good leaders most of the time and have also rated their teachers in terms of exhibiting helpful and friendly nature, understanding and giving students freedom and responsibility in the chemistry laboratory. No significant gender differences have been reported in the chemistry laboratory learning environments however, significant gender differences were found to exist in students' perceptions of their teacher interpersonal behavior in chemistry laboratory settings.

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Assessing the Science Laboratory Learning Environments at the Senior Secondary Level in An Indian School

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Science Laboratory Environment and Attitude Towards Chemistry Lessons of Senior High School Students

Science Laboratory Environment and Attitude Towards Chemistry Lessons of Senior High School Students

An Assessment Of Physics Laboratory Learning Environments, Teacher Interpersonal Behaviour And Their Association With Student s ' Attitude Towards Physics In Higher Secondary Schools of Jammu City

An assessment of the chemistry laboratory learning environments and teacher student interactions at the higher secondary level

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