The Relationship between Primary School Teacher and Student Attitudes towards Science and Technology

Table 1

Descriptive statistics of beginning and end of school year student attitudes towards science and technology (range 1–4).

			Student enjoyment
			Beginning		End
			m	sd	m	sd
Year 5	Boys	309	3.32	.59	3.28	.67
	Girls	292	3.24	.56	3.27	.61
	Total	601	3.28	.58	3.27	.64
Year 6	Boys	280	3.41	.52	3.30	.55
	Girls	297	3.21	.56	3.10	.60
	Total	577	3.31	.55	3.20	.59
Year 7	Boys	261	3.32	.57	3.19	.59
	Girls	281	3.04	.63	2.88	.64
	Total	542	3.17	.62	3.03	.64
Year 8	Boys	46	2.96	.52	2.82	.56
	Girls	56	2.51	.63	2.39	.62
	Total	102	2.72	.62	2.58	.63
Total	Boys	896	3.33	.57	3.24	.62
	Girls	926	3.13	.61	3.04	.66
	Total	1822	3.22	.60	3.14	.64