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International Journal on New Trends in Education and Their Implications 2013, Vol. 4(4) 75-87

An Exploration of Undergraduate Engineering, Education, Art's and Sciences Students’ Chemistry Laboratory Anxiety Levels

Dilek KARISAN, Ozgul YILMAZ TUZUN

pp. 75 - 87

Publish Date: October 31, 2013  |   Single/Total View: 0/0   |   Single/Total Download: 0/0


Abstract

This study examined the difference among undergraduate engineering, education, and arts and sciences students’ chemistry laboratory anxiety levels and aimed to describe the causes of these differences. Chemistry Laboratory Anxiety Instrument (CLAI), developed by Bowen (1999) and adapted into Turkish by Azizoğlu and Uzuntiryaki (2006), was used as the data source. There are four dimensions of the scale which are: using equipment and working with chemicals, working with other students, collecting data, having adequate time. 295 college students were participated in the study. Participants consist of three different faculty students (engineering, art-science, and education faculty). SPSS and AMOS statistics programs were used to analyze students’ anxiety levels. MANOVA was performed to explore the relation between gender, faculty and chemistry anxieties (i.e using chemicals, peer work, data collection, and time management) of undergraduate students. Results of the study have shown that gender has no significant effect on students’ chemistry laboratory anxiety levels. However, there is a significant difference among different faculty students’ anxiety levels. These variations were tried to be explained by conducting semi-structured interviews with lowest and highest anxious students.

Keywords: Anxiety, Chemistry laboratory anxiety, Undergraduate students


How to Cite this Article?

APA 7th edition
KARISAN, D., & YILMAZ TUZUN, O. (2013). An Exploration of Undergraduate Engineering, Education, Art's and Sciences Students’ Chemistry Laboratory Anxiety Levels. International Journal on New Trends in Education and Their Implications, 4(4), 75-87.

Harvard
KARISAN, D. and YILMAZ TUZUN, O. (2013). An Exploration of Undergraduate Engineering, Education, Art's and Sciences Students’ Chemistry Laboratory Anxiety Levels. International Journal on New Trends in Education and Their Implications, 4(4), pp. 75-87.

Chicago 16th edition
KARISAN, Dilek and Ozgul YILMAZ TUZUN (2013). "An Exploration of Undergraduate Engineering, Education, Art's and Sciences Students’ Chemistry Laboratory Anxiety Levels". International Journal on New Trends in Education and Their Implications 4 (4):75-87.