The Attitude of Pre‐Service Elementary Teachers Toward Science<sup>1</sup>

Shrigley, Robert L.

doi:10.1111/j.1949-8594.1974.tb09237.x

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“…A correlation coefficient (r) of 0.55 (p. < .03) was obtained. A significant correlation of Beli efs and Attitudes (Shrigley & Johnson, 1974: Spooner, Szabo & Simpson, 1982.…”

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Beliefs and attitudes of urban primary teachers toward physical science and teaching physical science

1991

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Eighteen primary teachers (K-3) from five urban schools in the southeastern part of the United States participated in this study. The purposes of this study were to provide insight into options for inservice education programs dealing with urban teachers and their unique needs and to determine some of the attitudes and beliefs of urban primary school teachers toward physical science and physical science teaching. The results of this study indicated that these elementary teachers realized the importance of hands-on activities. However, they felt a need for a stronger knowledge of chemistry and physics to competently teach elementary physical science using that instructional strategy. There were significantly positive relationships between their attitudes and beliefs about physical science.

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“…A correlation coefficient (r) of 0.55 (p. < .03) was obtained. A significant correlation of Beli efs and Attitudes (Shrigley & Johnson, 1974: Spooner, Szabo & Simpson, 1982.…”

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confidence: 99%

Beliefs and attitudes of urban primary teachers toward physical science and teaching physical science

1991

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“…Some of the instruments contained items for which it is unclear which component of attitude is being measured or what a positive or negative response implies. This was, for example, the case for a number of items on the various versions of SAS (Hassan & Shrigley, 1984;Shrigley, 1974;Shrigley & Johnson, 1974;Thompson & Shrigley, 1986). This instrument includes the following items: "I daydream during science classes," "I would not enjoy working in a science laboratory for a summer," and "I have a preference for science teaching over other subjects."…”

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“…For example, many studies used a version of SAS (Harty et al, 1991;Koballa, 1986;Liang & Gabel, 2005;McDevitt et al, 1993;Pedersen & McCurdy, 1992;Ramey-Gassert et al, 1996). This instrument (and the different versions thereof) measures aspects of personal attitude (feelings toward handling science equipment and toward anything that is associated with science), aspects of professional attitude (feelings and beliefs toward teaching science), feelings and beliefs toward college science courses, and the use of scientific ideas within daily life intermixed (Hassan & Shrigley, 1984;Shrigley, 1974;Shrigley & Johnson, 1974;Thompson & Shrigley, 1986). These different attitude objects are measured within one scale and result in one overall score.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Because no information is provided concerning the instrument that was used to measure professional attitude, it is not possible to analyze what was actually measured. Furthermore, the Science Attitude Scale (SAS) (Shrigley, 1974) that the researchers used to measure personal attitude, actually contains items addressing both personal and professional attitude. Koballa (1986) compared the predictive power of personal attitude toward science with professional attitude toward teaching science on teachers' intention to teach science.…”

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Primary teachers' attitudes toward science: A new theoretical framework

2011

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Attention to the attitudes of preservice and inservice primary teachers toward science is of fundamental importance to research on primary science education. However, progress in this field of research has been slow due to the poor definition and conceptualization of the construct of primary teachers' attitude toward science. This poor theoretical background has led to the use of a multitude of different concepts and measurement instruments. The main goal of this article is to present a new and comprehensive theoretical framework for primary teachers' attitudes toward science. The framework is based on an extensive review of previously used concept definitions of the construct. It is argued that this framework should serve as a necessary conceptual basis for future research and interventions in this domain, as well as for the construction of valid measurement instruments. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Sci Ed 96:158–182, 2012

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“…Conventionally, attitude precedes behavior (Shrigley, 1974). However, Myers (1980) considers attitude and behavior reciprocal and "We are as likely to act ourselves into a way of thinking as think ourselves into a line of actions" (p. 16).…”

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Bohning

Hale

1998

J Elem Sci Edu

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Research studies have reported an overall positive change of attitude toward teaching science after prospective elementary teachers complete a science methods course. The studies also reveal an absence of a description of the attitude change from the individual participant's point of view. It was the purpose ofthis three-yearqualitative study to generate a framework of categories to describe perspective teachers' change ofattitude toward teaching science over the term of a science methods course. Participants were graduate change-of-career prospective elementary science teachers. Sources of narrative data were participants' science journal entries and post-lesson plan comments. 39

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The Attitude of Pre‐Service Elementary Teachers Toward Science¹

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Beliefs and attitudes of urban primary teachers toward physical science and teaching physical science

Beliefs and attitudes of urban primary teachers toward physical science and teaching physical science

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