tailieunhanh - The relationship between teacher-related factors and students' attitudes towards secondary school chemistry subject in Bureti district, Kenya

This paper examines the relatonship between teacher-related factors and student’s attudes towards Chemistry subject in secondary schools in Kenya. The paper is based on a study conducted in Buret District in Kericho County, Kenya. This paper highlights issues on the teaching methods used by chemistry teachers, the teachers’ availability to atend to various needs of students on the subject, their use of teaching and learning resources in teaching, teachers’ personal levels of skills and knowledge of the subject mater in Chemistry and the impact of students’ negatve attudes towards Chemistry on teachers’ efectveness. The research design used in the study was descriptve survey. | Journal of Technology and Science Education THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHER-RELATED FACTORS AND STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS SECONDARY SCHOOL CHEMISTRY SUBJECT IN BURETI DISTRICT, KENYA Salome Chepkorir, Edna Marusoi Cheptonui, Agnes Chemutai Department of science educaton, University of Eldoret Kenya salomechepkorir@, , agneschemu@ Abstract This paper examines the relatonship between teacher-related factors and student’s attudes towards Chemistry subject in secondary schools in Kenya. The paper is based on a study conducted in Buret District in Kericho County, Kenya. This paper highlights issues on the teaching methods used by chemistry teachers, the teachers’ availability to atend to various needs of students on the subject, their use of teaching and learning resources in teaching, teachers’ personal levels of skills and knowledge of the subject mater in Chemistry and the impact of students’ negatve attudes towards Chemistry on teachers’ efectveness. The research design used in the study was descriptve survey. The target populaton comprised Form Four students in ten selected secondary schools in Buret District of Rif Valley Province Kenya. Stratfed random sampling technique was used to select the study sample. Schools were selected from the following categories: Girls’ schools, Boys’ schools and Co-educatonal schools. Simple random sampling was used to select the respondents from Form Four classes as well as a teacher in each school. In all, one hundred and eighty-nine students and ten teachers flled the questonnaires. The data collecton instruments were questonnaires based on the Likert scale and document analysis. Data was analyzed descriptvely using frequency tables, means and percentages while hypotheses were tested using Analysis of Variance. From the study fndings, a number of indicators revealed that there are some factors infuencing students’ attudes towards Chemistry, including lack of successful experiences in

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