LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 6 June 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

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A Comparison of an Inquiry Lab Teaching Method and Traditional Lab Teaching Method upon Scientific Attitudes of Biology Students

Muzaffar Khan

Abstract

The aim of this study was to compare inquiry lab teaching method with traditional lab teaching method upon scientific attitudes of biology students studying in 9th grade. For this purpose, students divided into two groups control and experimental group on the basis of their previous achievement test. Scientific attitude test was administered to students of both the groups. After the pre-test, experimental group was taught with inquiry lab teaching method while control group was taught with traditional lab method. After treatment, scientific attitude test was used again as a post-test. t-test was used for analysis of data. It was observed that the students taught through inquiry lab teaching method showed more performance in scientific attitude than the students of control group. Results showed that inquiry lab teaching method is more effective in developing scientific attitudes among the students of biology at secondary school level.

Introduction

In science education at schools level, efforts are spent to make students gain scientific knowledge, scientific attitudes and scientific skills. In these three areas, scientific attitudes have great significance and importance. A question is raised as to the scientific attitudes of the individuals and the societal decisions made by them throughout their lives are reliable or not. These issues are closely linked. Regarded to be among the attitudes peculiar to science course, scientific attitudes can be explained as the ways and procedures followed by scientists in comprehending and interpreting knowledge. Science courses are different from other curriculum courses. Science courses value only one correct answer. It requires that certain attitudes be adopted and questioned. Individuals with scientific attitudes bear qualities such as being realistic, considerate towards events, consistent in his or her judgments, avoiding generalizations which are not based on phenomena, being objective, and not failing in to dogmatic beliefs (Yasar & Selvi, 1997 and Yildirun, 2000).

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Muzaffar Khan, Ph.D.
Senior Subject Specialist
Govt. Christian Higher Sec. School
Raja Bazar, Rawalpindi
Pakistan
khanmzfr@yahoo.com
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