期刊名称：International Journal of Environmental and Science Education
电子版ISSN：1306-3065
出版年度：2012
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：217-232
出版社：IJESE
摘要：This paper aims to give a picture of Greek students’ views about biology and some of the factors that affect them. A questionnaire measuring students’ intrinsic motivation to learn biology, individual interest in biology and perceived difficulty of biology, along with in-formation about students’ gender, level, parents’ occupation and educational level was ad-ministered to 368 Greek students. Results revealed that Greek secondary school students have almost neutral overall views about biology: they are slightly positive about biology’s usefulness in their lives, perceive it as rather easy, but 26.4% finds no interest in it. Gender does not seem to affect students’ overall views about biology, neither their scores in any of the subscales - biology in Greece is as popular among boys as among girls. Younger and older students differ only in their perceived difficulty of biology, with the older students considering it more difficult than the younger ones. Parents’ educational level (both moth-ers and fathers are taken into account) is important in affecting only students’ intrinsic mo-tivation, since the more educated a parent is the higher intrinsic motivation a student has towards biology. Parents’ occupation does not affect students’ views about biology.
关键词：biology; secondary school students’ views; interest; perceived difficulty; intrin-sic motivation
