composed of 169 students to have attended Science High School in Kırklareli Province,
Turkey, in 2008-2009 education year. In the scope of the present study, the scale developed
by Demirci (2003) for the science course was adopted to biology course. The scale (which
was a one-dimension in its original format) was subjected to factor analysis, which showed
that adopted scale was also a one-factor scale with factor loads varying in. 40-. 75 range …