The Effect of Inquiry Teaching on the Development of Scientific Thinking and Positive Attitudes towards Environmental Issues among Secondary School Students in Kuwait

Abstract

The aim of the study is to explore the effect of inquiry teaching method on development of scientific thinking and positive attitudes towards some environmental issues among secondary school students in Kuwait. The Researcher has prepared the topic of photosynthesis (the fourth chapter of the first unit of Biology course taught at grade 11th in secondary schools) to be taught for the experimental group using the inquiry teaching model. He also prepared a scale to measure the development of scientific thinking and a questionnaire to reveal the attitudes towards some environmental issues among those students. The study concludes the following: 1- There are significant differences between the averages of students' degrees of pre/post test on both the development of scientific thinking and positive attitudes towards environmental issues. 2- This indicates that there is a strong effect of the inquiry teaching model on the two dependent variables; therefore the two null hypotheses were rejected.