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The distinguishing characteristics of high schools with high and low enrollments in physics
Author(s) -
Van Koevering Thomas E.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
journal of research in science teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.067
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1098-2736
pISSN - 0022-4308
DOI - 10.1002/tea.3660080106
Subject(s) - mathematics education , science education , physics , educational research , psychology , pedagogy
This Paper presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to determine if high schools with either high or low enrollments in physics exhibit any distinguishing characteristics that are measurable. The study involved 48 schools, 51 physics teachers, and 3767 students in the State of Michigan. Questionnaire: were administered to (1) physics teachers, (2) physics students, (3) chemistry students, and (4) guidance counselors to collect data pertaining to the personality characteristics of the physics teachers, teaching loads, teaching experience, the learning environment, physics enrolment, the vocational choices of physics students, achievement anO ,:ades in physics and the reasons students give for taking physics. '..ne findings show that (1) only a small percentage of students indicated that the physics teacher had either a positive or negative influence on their decision to take physics,