摘要：In Turkey, science festivals have become more widespread and have begun to be
organized especially in secondary schools. The aim of this research was to determine and compare
the science festival attitudes of students participating as observers in 4006- TUBITAK science
fairs organized at schools. In the research, descriptive survey was employed. The sample of the
research consisted of 531 (268 female, 263 male) secondary school students of four different
schools in different provinces of Turkey. Data were collected with the students of two schools in
Elazığ, a school in Malatya and a school in Diyarbakır, using science festival attitude scale. Data
were analyzed by using the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The results show that
students participating in the science fairs have moderate attitude to science festivals. The attitudes
of the different school students to science festivals were significantly different. This situation was
interpreted as the fact that the workshops taking place at the fairs were varied and different
approaches of the teachers and administrators in charge. The attitudes of the students can be raised
from moderate to high with the increase of the number of fairs in which students exhibit their
projects without competition environment.
关键词：Science fair; secondary school students; attitudes
