High School Students’ Scientific Epistemic Beliefs
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This study was to explore students’ epistemic beliefs in learning science. There were 291 Thai high school students participated. The average age of the participant was 17 years old. They were from different school areas over Northeastern regional of Thailand. The Scientific Epistemological Beliefs (SEBs) Questionnaire by Conley et.al. (2004) was used for probing the participants’ epistemic beliefs in science. The Descriptive statistics were used to analyze by considering to mean and standard deviation. To analyze the gender difference, the t-test analysis was conducted. The result shown that the scores of dimensions of ‘justification’ and ‘development’ were high. That is, most of students held complex beliefs, but ‘source’ and ‘certainty’ dimensions have still high scores. It maybe due to having the students’ simple beliefs in science. However, boys tend to have beliefs the science knowledge is uncertainty more than girls in statically (p=.05)
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