Study on the attitude of introductory physics students

Authors

Alvin Karlo G. Tapia ⋅ PH Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Physics, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Marvin U. Herrera ⋅ PH Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Physics, University of the Philippines Los Baños

Abstract

A study that characterizes attitudes of introductory Physics students of UPLB was conducted during the 1^st Semester of Academic Year (AY) 2002-2003. A questionnaire was prepared to determine the students' attitude towards physics. The reliability found using Cronbach Alpha is 0.9473. To characterize attitude of students in physics, means, and standard deviations were computed per course and the frequency distribution were fitted to Gaussian and normal curve. The attitudes of males are not significantly different from the attitudes of females for all introductory physics courses. The attitudes of the students per course are significantly different from each other at 0.05 significance level. There were weak correlations though significant (p < 0.05) between the weighted means of the physics attitude and final grades of the students.

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Issue

2003: Proceedings of the 21st Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Physics Congress

Article ID

SPP-2003-PB-19

Section

Poster Session PB

Published

2003-10-22

How to Cite

[1]

AKG Tapia and MU Herrera, Study on the attitude of introductory physics students, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 21, SPP-2003-PB-19 (2003). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2003-PB-19.