Open AccessScience Processes Skills Acquisition & Relationship thereof with Academic Level & Students' Attitude towards the Laboratory
Author(s) -
Mohammed S. Al-rsa’i,
Khetam Mousa Al-Helalat,
Reem Suleiman Ali Saleh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of studies in education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2162-6952
DOI - 10.5296/jse.v7i3.11562
Subject(s) - mathematics education , positive attitude , psychology , process (computing) , academic year , test (biology) , medical education , computer science , social psychology , medicine , biology , paleontology , operating system
This study aimed to identify the acquisition degree of life sciences' students of science processes' skills and the relationship thereof with their academic level and attitude towards the laboratory. A test was designed to measure the science process skills while another was designed to measure lab interest. The generated outcomes showed weak degree average of such an attitude acquisition, though slight improvement with statistical significance, and academic level rise was noticed; (academic year). The study also, showed high and stabled attitude of life sciences section students in Al-Hussein Bin Talal University towards labs during study years. There was no liaison between the possessing degree of science processes and their attitude toward the lab. Therefore we recommended herein the need arise herein to invest the students wish in lab works in order to raise their science process skills and to develop teaching strategies used in teaching within the lab premises.