College Students' Attitudes towards Sexually Themed Science Content: A Socioscientific Issues Approach to Resolution

Autor/inn/en	Yahaya, Jamil Mikhail; Nurulazam, Ahmad; Karpudewan, Mageswary
Titel	College Students' Attitudes towards Sexually Themed Science Content: A Socioscientific Issues Approach to Resolution
Quelle	In: International Journal of Science Education, 38 (2016) 7, S.1174-1196 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0950-0693
DOI	10.1080/09500693.2016.1174349
Schlagwörter	College Students; Student Attitudes; Sexuality; Course Content; Science Instruction; Conventional Instruction; Lecture Method; Comparative Analysis; Experimental Groups; Control Groups; Attitude Change; Interviews; Foreign Countries; Social Influences; Controversial Issues (Course Content); Likert Scales; Attitude Measures; Pretests Posttests; Mixed Methods Research; Nigeria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; Sexualität; Kursprogramm; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Ausland; Sozialer Einfluss; Controversial issues; Kontroverse; Likert-Skala
Abstract	A socioscientific issues integrated instruction was used in the study to resolve college students attitude towards sexually-themed science content. Some 200 college students participated in the study as experimental and control groups. The former consisting of 98 students from one college was taught the content using the socioscientific issues integrated instruction. The later with 102 students from another college was taught the same content using a traditionally teacher dominated lectures. Both groups were taught over a period of eight weeks. Qualitative and quantitative data were obtained before and after the intervention. The quantitative data were analysed using analysis of covariance. The results revealed that there was a significant difference between the experimental and the control groups (F (1, 247) = 426.97, p = 0.00, partial eta squared = 0.64) where the experimental group showed a significant change in attitude towards the content studied. The qualitative data obtained some experimental group students showed a change in attitude the second interview. It was concluded that the use of the approach has significantly made the college students feel comfortable and confident to learn and teach the content. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01