Evaluation of Affective Behaviors of High School Science Students

Authors

Gary E. Downs, Iowa State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

American education has been in a constant state of change during the last half-century. Some of the changes in science education are being questioned by the critics. Some of the criticism has come about because of the emphasis on subject matter content and very little emphasis, if any at all, on values. Science education must be part of the movement to a more humanistic education for young people. One method that teachers can use to help determine the direction of science education is to try and teach for and measure the affective behavior of their students. This paper is a brief summary of a study that was conducted to answer the following question: How does the affective behavior of high school science students differ and change during a semester as measured with an affective domain instrument?

Publication Date

December 1980

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Volume

17

Issue

3

First Page

2

Last Page

6

Copyright

© Copyright 1980 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Downs, Gary E. (1980) "Evaluation of Affective Behaviors of High School Science Students," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 17: No. 3, Article 2.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol17/iss3/2