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Yunanlı ortaöğretim öğrencilerinin biyoloji hakkında görüşleri

Greek secondary school students’ views about biology

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217–232
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2022-10-18
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Results revealed that Greek secondary school students have almost neutral overall views about biology: they are slightly positive about biology’s usefulness in their lives, perceive it as rather easy, but 26.4% finds no interest in it.

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Objective & Hypothesis:This paper aims to give a picture of Greek students’ views about biology and some of the factors that affect them.
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Key Findings & Data:A questionnaire measuring students’ intrinsic motivation to learn biology, individual interest in biology and perceived difficulty of biology, along with in-formation about students’ gender, level, parents’ occupation and educational level was ad-ministered to 368 Greek students.
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Conclusion & Impact:Results revealed that Greek secondary school students have almost neutral overall views about biology: they are slightly positive about biology’s usefulness in their lives, perceive it as rather easy, but 26.4% finds no interest in it.
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This paper aims to give a picture of Greek students’ views about biology and some of the factors that affect them. A questionnaire measuring students’ intrinsic motivation to learn biology, individual interest in biology and perceived difficulty of biology, along with in-formation about students’ gender, level, parents’ occupation and educational level was ad-ministered to 368 Greek students. Results revealed that Greek secondary school students have almost neutral overall views about biology: they are slightly positive about biology’s usefulness in their lives, perceive it as rather easy, but 26.4% finds no interest in it. Gender does not seem to affect students’ overall views about biology, neither their scores in any of the subscales - biology in Greece is as popular among boys as among girls. Younger and older students differ only in their perceived difficulty of biology, with the older students considering it more difficult than the younger ones. Parents’ educational level (both moth-ers and fathers are taken into account) is important in affecting only students’ intrinsic mo-tivation, since the more educated a parent is the higher intrinsic motivation a student has towards biology. Parents’ occupation does not affect students’ views about biology.

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Bu çalışma biyoloji ve bunları etkileyen bazı faktörleri hakkında Yunanlı öğrencilerin gö-rüşlerinin bir resmini vermeyi amaçlamaktadır. Cinsiyet, sınıf düzeyi, aile mesleği, eğitim seviyesi öğrencilerin biyoloji, bireysel ilgi ve öğrenciler biyoloji zorlukları hakkında bil-gilerini değerlendirmek için içsel motivasyon ölçen bir anket 368 Yunanlı öğrencisine uygulanmıştır. Öğrencilerin sadece büyük çoğunluğu biyoloji pozitif düşünceye sahipken, % 26,4’ü biyoloji konusunda ilgisizdirler. Sonuçlar Yunan ortaöğretim öğrencilerinin bi-yoloji hakkında neredeyse nötr genel görüşlere sahip olduğunu ortaya koymuştur. Cinsi-yet öğrencileri etkileyecek düzeyde olmasında rağmen, biyoloji kızlar arasında erkekler arasında da popüler bir yerdir. Yaşa göre öğrencilerin biyoloji dersini zor yada kolay oalrak algılamaları farklıdır, yaşları büyük olan öğrenciler biyoloji dersini yaşları küçük olana göre daha zor olarak algılamaktadır. Ebeveynlerin meslekleri öğrencilerin biyoloji hakkındaki görüşlerini etkilememektedir.

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MAVRİKAKİ, E., KOUMPAROU, H., KYRIAKOUDI, M., PAPACHARALAMPOUS, I., TRIMANDILI, M. (2022). Yunanlı ortaöğretim öğrencilerinin biyoloji hakkında görüşleri. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education (elektronik), Cilt: 7 - Sayı: 2, 217–232. https://ajindex.com/articles/540806

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