Assessing Form Four Students' Attitude Towards Science In North East District Of Penang

This study aimed to adapt and validate an ATS measure, assess students’ ATS, and investigate the effect of track position on students’ ATS. A total of 749 Form Four students from eight secondary schools in the state of Penang, Malaysia were involved in this study. An ATS measure, namely Attitude tow...

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Main Author: Chin, Sook Fui
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2012
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description This study aimed to adapt and validate an ATS measure, assess students’ ATS, and investigate the effect of track position on students’ ATS. A total of 749 Form Four students from eight secondary schools in the state of Penang, Malaysia were involved in this study. An ATS measure, namely Attitude towards Science Scale (ATSS) was adapted from Test of Science-Related Attitude, TOSRA (Fraser, 1981) and Attitude towards Science Measure, ATSM (Kind, Jones, & Barmby, 2007) upon considerations of appropriateness, theoretical framework, and psychometric properties.
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spelling usm-447912019-07-01T07:19:14Z http://eprints.usm.my/44791/ Assessing Form Four Students' Attitude Towards Science In North East District Of Penang Chin, Sook Fui L7-991 Education (General) This study aimed to adapt and validate an ATS measure, assess students’ ATS, and investigate the effect of track position on students’ ATS. A total of 749 Form Four students from eight secondary schools in the state of Penang, Malaysia were involved in this study. An ATS measure, namely Attitude towards Science Scale (ATSS) was adapted from Test of Science-Related Attitude, TOSRA (Fraser, 1981) and Attitude towards Science Measure, ATSM (Kind, Jones, & Barmby, 2007) upon considerations of appropriateness, theoretical framework, and psychometric properties. 2012-05 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/44791/1/CHIN%20SOOK%20FUI.pdf Chin, Sook Fui (2012) Assessing Form Four Students' Attitude Towards Science In North East District Of Penang. Masters thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
spellingShingle L7-991 Education (General)
Chin, Sook Fui
Assessing Form Four Students' Attitude Towards Science In North East District Of Penang
title Assessing Form Four Students' Attitude Towards Science In North East District Of Penang
title_full Assessing Form Four Students' Attitude Towards Science In North East District Of Penang
title_fullStr Assessing Form Four Students' Attitude Towards Science In North East District Of Penang
title_full_unstemmed Assessing Form Four Students' Attitude Towards Science In North East District Of Penang
title_short Assessing Form Four Students' Attitude Towards Science In North East District Of Penang
title_sort assessing form four students' attitude towards science in north east district of penang
topic L7-991 Education (General)
url http://eprints.usm.my/44791/
http://eprints.usm.my/44791/1/CHIN%20SOOK%20FUI.pdf