Fact-finding Research into the Upper Secondary School Students' Knowledge on the History of Science

Abstract

The auther made a fact-finding research into the senior high school students' knowledge on the history of science, asking to answer the following three questions; the names of the authers of the classics on science, the names of persons who are closely related to the scientific terms and their ages, the stage of the development of scientific concept. Consequently the individual variation of the levels of the knowledge was very large, but the following result could be generally obtained by this research. (1) The levels of the knowledge are deviated by the fields of questions, but they increase as the grades of students do. (2) There exisists week, but positive corelationship between the levels of the knowledge on science and tho3e of the history of science. (3) The degree of interest and the de3ire to study the history of science and the recognition of its importance grown large as the grades of students increase. But those three and the levels of the knowledge on the history of science can not be corelated.