ATTITUDE OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TOWARDS SCIENCE USING TWO MEDIA OF INSTRUCTION

The study was conducted to determine the attitude towards Science of high school students. Sixty-eight students from Juan R. Liwag Memorial High School participate in the study. The instrument adapted from the Science Attitude Scale was utilized. The study used Campbell and Stanley‘s (1966) quasi-experimental design of non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design. The survey questionnaire was used to determine their attitude towards Science. Mean and standard deviation was computed to assess the attitude of the respondents under two medium of instruction. At the same time, inferential statistical methods such as the T-test for independent samples were obtained to determine the difference in the attitude of students when either Filipino or English is used as a medium of instruction. The study showed that before and after the instruction, the mean attitude scores of the respondents meant that they agreed on the positive beliefs/opinions about Science. The control and experimental groups exhibited a statistically comparable mean in the attitude before and after instruction. The language appeared to not affect the students’ attitude on Science. Hence, students taught using English and Filipino had the same attitude towards Science. The research study implied that other factors affect the students' attitudes towards Science. Those factors may help must be identified to uplift the attitude of the students, especially the youth, towards Science, which may offer a solution to improve the country's science education.