Prospective Elementary Teachers’ Attitudes toward Chemistry Course

<p>The current research aims to investigate attitudes of prospective elementary teachers toward chemistry course according to their gender and the type of high school they graduated from. The study employs the scanning model. The current study was conducted in 2015-2016 academic year, spring semester with Pamukkale University, Faculty of Education, Elementary Education Department students. 99 students who were attending the chemistry course in their first year curriculum participated in the current study. The data collection was conducted using "Attitudes towards Chemistry Course Scale" developed by Hançer, Uludağ and Yılmaz (2007). Whether the attitude scores of participants changed according to gender and high school they graduated were tested using independent t-test and one-way ANOVA. As the result of the data analysis it was observed that the students have a negative attitude toward the chemistry class and these negative attitudes did not vary according to neither gender nor high school graduated from.