Relationship between Science Teachers’ Attitude and Students Academic Achievement at Secondary Level in Abbottabad.

Abstract

The target of this study was to uncover the relationship between Science teachers’ attitude and students’ academic achievement. For this purpose, a survey type questionnaire was set to find data regarding science educators’ academic/ professional qualifications and experience. To find the attitude of science educators for science, a 50 items’ attitude scale consisting 5 components was formulated and adapted from TOSRA. Present questionnaire was distributed among 80 secondary grade science educators as of 40 institutions consisting gender, urban/rural and private/public secondary institutions. Quantitative analysis of data specified an opposite correlation of educators’ academic as well as professional qualifications/teaching experience with their students’ academic performance. Most of the educators obsessed extremely positive attitude for their respective subjective. Also, a positive relationship was found between science educators’ attitude towards science and academic achievements of their pupils. More studies may be carried out for finding the reasons about a negative correlation of educators’ academic/professional qualification/ experience with their students’ achievements and also to explore definite variables that influence the attitude of educators towards science.