Abstract
Students’ interest in learning a particular subject depends on their love for the subject and in turn, their interest is determined by their attitude towards the subject. A quantitative study on the attitude of grade seven to ten students toward learning science subjects was conducted in Phuentsholing Middle Secondary School, Bhutan to evaluate and implement necessary interventions if they possess any negative attitudes and to enhance their belief towards science further if students are with a positive attitude. The study adopted a survey research design, where 16 questions were distributed among four constructs; school factors, outside-school factors, future scope related to science, and attitude toward science. SPSS20 and Microsoft Excel 2013 were used to analyze data using descriptive analysis, paired t-test, ANOVA, and multiple regression to test hypotheses. The results indicated a high positive attitude of students towards science with no significant gender difference. There was no significant variation in responses among the different grades. School factors were found to be a major (61%) influencing factor for the attitude of students to learn science followed by future scope related to science (40%) while learning of science outside school (17%) contributed the least. All the factors were found significant at P<0.05, R2 = 62.3%. Recommendations are derived from the findings further to enhance the attitude of students toward learning science subjects
Keywords
Attitude, Grades, Learning, Science subjects, Students