مستوى الثقافة العلمية لدى الطلبة الجامعيين تخصص العلوم الحياتية في جامعة آل البيت في الأردن : المساهمات المشتركة و المنفردة لمتغيرات الجنس و العمر و المستوى الدراسي

Abstract EN

The purpose of this study was two-fold.

Firstly, to determine the level of scientific literacy of Biology undergraduate students at Al al-Bayt University and secondly to investigate the individual and joint contributions of sex, age and level of study to the level of scientific literacy of the students.

A total of one hundred and one (101) Biology undergraduate students from across the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and final years, participated in the study.

The instrument chosen for this investigation, was the Basic Scientific Literacy Questionnaire (BSLQ), which consisted of twenty-four (24) ‘True’ and ‘False’ questions.

The instrument was found to be reliable with Cronbach Alpha value of 0.74.

The contributions of the variables sex, age range and level of study to the level of scientific literacy, were also analyzed and these were done via One –Sample (t) test, Independent Sample (t) tests, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Multiple Regression Analysis.

The study results showed low levels of scientific literacy among undergraduate Biology students.

There were no statistically significant differences in the level of scientific literacy based on age range and level of study.

However, sex was found to have contributed most and significantly to variations in the level of scientific literacy of the undergraduate Biology students.