A Study about the Effects of Elementary and Secondary School Science Education in the Affectional Domain

Abstract

What impressions have the college students about the science education in their elementary and secondary school days? The author made his college students write their impressions about the science education which they had received in their past school days. The author classified and analyzed these free described discriptions, and gained some findings about the effects of science education in the affectional domain. The major findings are as follows. (About experiments and observations) 1.Outdoor activities were very impressive and attractive. 2.Plant cultivation and animal breeding were both very impressive and instructive. 3.Experiences of anatomy were incentive. 4.The observations through microscope were introduction to another view of nature. 5.Generally speaking, hand-on experiments were very incentive. (About subjectmatters and teaching method) 1.Interests were stimulated by the materials about the daily lives and the surrounding matters. 2.Abstractive and theoretical matters were not so interesting if those matters were taught without concrete examples. In such cases, science teachings affect minus effects. 3.Even if the subject matters were needed to be memorized for the entrance examination, the compulsion of memory were one of the most unpleasant learning. It affects as minus factors for affectional domain. 4.The teaching in lecture-only style were also unpleasant for students, but sometimes the teachers' interesting introduction and speech techniques made them very interesting and attractive.