A STUDY ON STUDENT TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS TEACHING OF SCIENCE AT EDUCATION COLLEGES
Abstract
- The purpose of the study is to investigate attitudes of student teachers towards the teaching of science at Education Colleges. In order to produce qualified teachers, the positive attitudes of student teachers are fundamentally important. The sample of the study consisted of 600 primary student teachers at six Education Colleges in upper and lower Myanmar. Questionnaire survey method was used to collect data from the participants in January, 2020. The collected data were analysed by applying descriptive statistics. The results of findings are that most of student teachers have positive attitudes towards the teaching of science. According to the results of mean scores, ‘science learning’ is the highest while ‘assessment’ is the lowest despite numerical values are not different. It is found that over 90% of student teachers are in the high understanding level on the attitudes towards the teaching of science whereas below 10% of them are in the lower group of it. The results indicated that there are strong correlations between variables and most of the student teachers have favourable attitudes on the teaching of science.
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Year
- 2021
Author
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Aye Aye Myint
Subject
- Educational Methodology
Publisher
- Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS)