Opinions of primary school sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students about subjects of science-technology-society-environment

Abstract

In this study, opinions of primary school students about science-technology-society-environment and relation of these opinions in terms of many variables are analysed. For this purpose, screening type of commonly used descriptive researches in education field was used in the study. Total 408 students, as 228 of them are girls and 180 of them are boys attending to two state one private school during the first term of school year of 2010-2011 in Antalya constitute the study group of research.  Student questionnaire about the subjects of STSE developed by the researcher as data collection tool was applied to sixth, seventh and eighth grade students in the research. It was determined opinions of students about STSE are positive by analyzing sub-titles “science and technology, technology, effect of technology on society, effect of science-technology on society, effect of society on science and technology, effect of science and technology on environment, effect of technology on environment and effect of society on environment” included in the questionnaire, and significant variations were determined between variable of sex and type of school and some iteIn this study, opinions of primary school students about science-technology-society-environment and relation of these opinions in terms of many variables are analysed. For this purpose, screening type of commonly used descriptive researches in education field was used in the study. Total 408 students, as 228 of them are girls and 180 of them are boys attending to two state one private school during the first term of school year of 2010-2011 in Antalya constitute the study group of research.  Student questionnaire about the subjects of STSE developed by the researcher as data collection tool was applied to sixth, seventh and eighth grade students in the research. It was determined opinions of students about STSE are positive by analyzing sub-titles “science and technology, technology, effect of technology on society, effect of science-technology on society, effect of society on science and technology, effect of science and technology on environment, effect of technology on environment and effect of society on environment” included in the questionnaire, and significant variations were determined between variable of sex and type of school and some items