AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE ATTITUDE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS TOWARDS READING COURSES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION IN PLATEAU STATE.

ABSTRACT The study is an investigation into the attitude of senior secondary school students towards reading courses in science education in plateau state, Nigeria. Four senior secondary schools were use. students consisting of 63 males and 57 females were selected from four secondary schools using stratified random sampling techniques. A 23-item Attitude to Science Questionnaire on a four-point likert scale was adopted for the study. The instrument has a reliability coefficient of 0.73 using Cronbachs reliability method. Frequency counts and percentages were used to obtain an overall picture of students attitude towards science while students t-test was used to find out whether there was significance difference between the attitude of male and female students. Findings showed that there is no significant difference between the science attitudes acquired by male and female science students in secondary schools it is also recommended that emphasis should be laid on the teaching of science along with homemade cheap materials for different experiments. Students should be encouraged to construct new equipment for these experiments.