What Makes Children Like Learning Science? An Examination of the Attitudes of Primary School Students towards Science Lessons

This study examines attitudes to school science classes amongst primary school children, based on theassumption that these will influence their attitudes and choices later in life. 1298 primary school students ingrades 4-6 were given a Likert-type questionnaire and asked to provide verbal explanations for theiragreement/disagreement with each item. The items were divided into three