Gapet har minskat: skillnader mellan hög- och lågpresterande flickors och pojkars attityder till biologi, fysik och kemi 1995 och 2007

Autor: Lena Adolfsson, Sylvia Benckert, Marie Wiberg
Jazyk: Danish<br />English<br />Norwegian<br />Swedish
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Nordina: Nordic Studies in Science Education, Vol 7, Iss 1 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1504-4556
1894-1257
DOI: 10.5617/nordina.243
Popis: This article explores the change over time of boys’ and girls’ attitudes towards biology, physics and chemistry. We use data from the TIMSS studies for grade 8 in Sweden to investigate how the attitudes for high- and low performing pupils have changed between 1995 and 2007. The attitude is measured by four questions from the student questionnaire in the TIMSS study. The results indicate that there have been some changes in attitudes between 1995 and 2007. High-achieving pupils and especially boys have a more negative attitude towards all three subjects, biology, physics and chemistry, in 2007 compared to 1995. The low-achieving students think that they are performing better in all three subjects 2007 compared to 1995. The difference between the group that are most positive to physics and chemistry and the least positive group has diminished between the two years. The results are discussed in relation to the changes in Swedish schools during the period.
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