Attitude Towards Science and Science Process Skills of Junior High School Students

Abstract

This paper incorporated attitude towards science and science process skills as the independent variable (IV) and dependent variable (DV), respectively. This study aimed was to determine the relationship of attitude towards science and science process skills of junior high school students of Bongabong National High School through employing quantitative non-experimental process using correlation technique, with 275 students enrolled for the academic school year 2020-2021 as respondents. Mean, Pearson (r), and Regression Analysis were used as the statistical tools for data treatment. Results revealed students’ very high level of attitude towards science in terms of academic value, science activity, and classroom environment, and their science process skills at a moderate level in terms of basic process skills and integrated process skills. Accordingly, results showed no relationship between the students’ attitude towards science and science process skills which depicts that no domains of attitude towards science that relates to the science process skills of junior high school students of Bongabong National High School.