مستوى فهم طبيعة العلم لدى طلبة الصف العاشر الأساسي في مدارس جنوب الخليل

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This study aimed at clarifying the basic 10th grade students’ level of understanding of the nature of science and whether there is a relationship bettween this understanding.

To achieve the objective of the study, the researcheers designed the instrument, which consisted of a test to measure the level of understanding of the nature of the science.

Experts and university professors specializing in education tested the validity of the test.

The reliability was examined by Cronbach alpha and it was (0.90).

The test was distributed on a sample which consisted of (469) students from the basic 10th grade who follow the Directorate of Education in Southern Hebron.

The sample was chosen by the cluster random method.

After the data collection, they were analyzed by using the means, the standard deviations, Two Way Analyzed of Variance and LSD test.

The study revealed the following results: The level of the students’ understanding of the nature of the science is moderate.

There were no significant differences in the students’ level of understanding of the nature of science due to gender.

There were significant differences in the leveel of understanding of the students of the nature of science due to their level of achievement in favor of excellent.

There were significant differences at due to the interaction between gender and achievement in favor of excellent, very good, good, medial and acceptable females and weak males in learning achievement.

Based on the previous results the researcher arrived at some recommendations.