Open AccessInvestigation of human values effect on high school students’ physics achievements
Author(s) -
Hakan Güzel,
İmran Oral
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of human sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2458-9489
DOI - 10.14687/jhs.v15i4.5601
Subject(s) - honesty , friendship , psychology , feeling , social psychology , test (biology) , scale (ratio) , dimension (graph theory) , human values , mathematics education , social science , mathematics , sociology , geography , cartography , paleontology , pure mathematics , biology
The values define the things that a person considers important. Values, which are directly related to feelings, opinions and behavior levels of individuals, are very important for their personal improvement. This research was done to investigate the human values (responsibility, friendship, peaceful, respect, honesty and tolerance) and its relationship between the physics achievements of high-school students. The research was carried out with 303 students from three public high schools in the center of Konya in the academic year of 2017-2018. The 46.2% (f=140) of the participants were male students, while 53.8% (f=163) of participants were female. The data of this research were obtained by the "Human Values Scale (HVS)" developed by Dilmaç (2007). The obtained data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, correlation and independent samples-t test in SPSS 20 program. The findings have figured out that there wasn’t a significant difference between male and female students' mean scores of responsibility, friendship, peace, respect, honesty and tolerance subscales scores. Also, a positive correlation between the achievement of physics course and responsibility sub-dimension of human values scale, while there was not found any significant relationship between the achievement of physics with friendship, peace, respect, honesty and tolerance sub-dimensions, respectively.