High school students attitudes and opinions regarding biology course and biological sciences

The Barcelona Conference on Education 2023: Official Conference Proceedings

“…However, there are plenty of such study targeting school students. The current study's findings are in line with some previous literature which found that high school students are interested in zoology, genetics, biotechnology; so they believe that the researches on the medicine, genetics and human biology (Ekli et al, 2009). Positive attitude of school students are found to be influenced by factors such as gender, grade, education environment, life style (Acarlı & Acarlı, 2020;Almasri et al, 2021;Weinburgh & Englehard, 1994).…”

“…Numerous studies have explored students' attitudes towards various biology-related disciplines, shedding light on factors that influence their preferences, motivations, and perceptions either at secondary (Acarlı & Acarlı, 2020), high school (Ekli et al, 2009) or college level of education (Beumer, 2019).…”