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A random sample of 243 pupils (115 girls, 128 boys: age range 12-17 years) comprised the respondents. The study was premised on survey paradigm with a self designed and administered questionnaire as the main tool for data collection. Meta analysis based on (Ho) testing was implemented, leading to F- ratios at p < 0.05 being tabulated and discussed. It was found out that teacher experience, teacher qualification and teacher gender were significantly related to pupil attitude towards the learning of classroom science. It was concluded that science must be taught by well qualified and experienced teachers. Institutions of higher learning educating science teachers must envisage gender equity and equality, among others. \end{abstract} \keywords{science, demographic, attitude, pupil, teacher, antecedent, qualification, gender} \begin{textblock*}{18cm}(1cm,1cm) % {block width} (coords) \textcolor{GJBlue}{\LARGE Global Journals \LaTeX\ JournalKaleidoscope\texttrademark} \end{textblock*} \begin{textblock*}{18cm}(1.4cm,1.5cm) % {block width} (coords) \textcolor{GJBlue}{\footnotesize \\ Artificial Intelligence formulated this projection for compatibility purposes from the original article published at Global Journals. However, this technology is currently in beta. \emph{Therefore, kindly ignore odd layouts, missed formulae, text, tables, or figures.}} \end{textblock*} \let\tabcellsep& \section[{Introduction}]{Introduction}\par he Cockcroft committee reporting the findings of a study in which about 5 000 people aged 15 or over were interviewed about physics, (a science subject) noted that, "the extent to which the need to undertake even an apparently simple physics calculation could induce feelings of anxiety, helplessness, fear and even, guilt in some of those interviewed was, perhaps, the most striking feature of the study", {\ref (Cockroft Committee, 1984 p. 16)}. Is it not strange that Science, often described as the "Queen of the school subjects", should be regarded with distaste, and even fear? I therefore sought to find out whether teacher demographic variables had an association with pupil attitude toward teaching and learning of Science in Zimbabwe. \section[{II.}]{II.} \section[{Context}]{Context}\par On the basis of studies of attitudes toward Science \hyperref[b14]{(Gudyanga \& Gudyanga, 2013;}\hyperref[b24]{Myers \& Fouts, 1992;}\hyperref[b32]{Yore, 1991;}\hyperref[b33]{Zoller, Ebenezer, Morley, \& Paras, 1990)}, the following Null hypothesis (Ho) was examined: Teachers have no significant influence on the pupils' attitude towards the learning and teaching of science.\par Author: Midlands State University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Foundations, Management and Curriculum Studies, Bag 9055, Gweru, Zimbabwe. e-mail: gudyangae@gmail.com In this study, the term, teaching was used to refer to all classroom activities. Various types of classroom activities can be cited as examples of Science teaching and learning. Science students are taught to observe, to classify, to control variables, to design, to report experiments, to tabulate results amongst others. Science teaching also involves group or individual practical work. This is an important part of normal teaching techniques or teaching methods. If a teacher carries out such classroom activities, he / she is deemed to have correct Science teaching techniques and students are considered to be learning science. \hyperref[b2]{Bonnstetter et al (1983)} surveyed the views of science teachers and found that there was some denial about a swing from science and suggestion "of a shift of emphasis from physical to biological science|". Reasons for the swing came in two categories:\par ? Science teachers were either too young and inexperienced or too old and out of date. ? Specialist teaching in the sixth form left no time for junior school teaching, hence teacher demographic variables were associated with pupil attitude toward science, \hyperref[b4]{(Committee, 1984;}\hyperref[b30]{Talton \& Simpson, 1987)}. Affective behaviours in the science classroom, particularly achievement motivation and science selfconcept, were strongly related to achievement \hyperref[b2]{(Bonnstetter, Penick \& Yager, 1983;}\hyperref[b25]{Oliver \& Simpson 1988)}. About the influences of home, school and peer groups on student attitudes and achievement in Science revealed a strong interrelationship among the affective and cognitive variables \hyperref[b28]{(Schibeci, 1989)}.\par Previous studies have shown that students maintain a poor attitude toward Science, with that attitude declining from the junior to the Senior High School \hyperref[b6]{(Ebenezer \& Zoller, 1993;}\hyperref[b12]{Fleming \& Malone, 1983;}\hyperref[b14]{Gudyanga \& Gudyanga, 2013;}\hyperref[b18]{Hofstein \& Welch, 1984;}\hyperref[b21]{Jegede, 1989;}\hyperref[b33]{Zoller et al., 1990)}.\par Attitudes hold varied meanings for different people. However, one meaning of attitude generally accepted is that attitudes have three components, the cognitive, the affective and the psychomotor. \hyperref[b5]{(Deaux \& Wrightsman, 1984;}\hyperref[b13]{Freedman \& Carlsmith, 1981)}. The cognitive component is that part of our attitude which has something to do with our beliefs, ideas and knowledge about an object. The affective component is our emotional feelings of like and dislike. The psychomotor component is the action or the practicals of Science. Within social psychology, there is an emerging consensus that, attitudes are best understood as structures that reside in long term memory \hyperref[b8]{(Fazio, Sabonmasu, Powell, \& Kardes, 1986;}\hyperref[b9]{Fazio \& Williams, 1986;}\hyperref[b31]{Tourangeau, 1987)} and are activated when the issue or object of the attitude is encountered \hyperref[b9]{Fazio \& Williams, 1986)}.\par The conventions that have been found useful for representing other information in long term memory ought to be useful for representing attitudes as well. In most psychological work, attitudes have been represented networks of interrelated beliefs. Although social psychologists tend to refer to the constituents of attitudes as beliefs, the term has been loosely used to encompass memories of e.g. specific experiences, general propositions, images, feelings, value systems held by different cultures, convictions, desires, feelings, opinions \hyperref[b7]{(Edwards, 1957)}. All these must be interwoven as a set of interconnected ideas lying in the long term memory.\par Other researchers argue that attitudes are organized into schemata \hyperref[b10]{(Fiske \& Dyer, 1985;}\hyperref[b11]{Fiske \& Kinder, 1981;}\hyperref[b16]{Hastie, 1981)} or stereotypes \hyperref[b15]{(Hamilton, 1981;}\hyperref[b22]{Linville \& Jones, 1980)}. But whenever attitudes form network structures, schemata, stereotypes, or some combination of these, it is clear that the dimensional representation of attitude structure implicit in classical scaling techniques, such as Likert, Guttman and Thurstone scaling, does not fully capture the important structural properties of attitudes. However, since interested mainly in the affective domain, the Likert scale was the best possible to measure such \hyperref[b0]{(Anderson, 1983;}\hyperref[b3]{Bower, 1981;}\hyperref[b29]{Sears, Huddy, \& Schaffer, 1986)} and it is the one which was used in this study.\par The study is informed by the gestalt school of thought. Gestaltism (the lens through which I viewed my study) is based on the fact that perception, just like attitudes, should be considered as a whole or a gestalt (a German word), if it is to be meaningful. The whole of a phenomenon is greater than the sum of its parts \hyperref[b26]{(Reyna, 2012)}. The sum total of individual components of attitudes, (i.e. cognitive, affective and psychomotor) is more important than individual parts. In this study, total attitude towards science teaching and learning is more important than perceiving demographic variables as being associated to cognitive domain, affective and psychomotor domain. For this investigation, Metaanalysis procedure is respected, in order to raise the reliability and validity of the study. \section[{III.}]{III.} \section[{Method}]{Method}\par A pilot study was carried out to establish the construct validity and reliability of the Likert instrument, which I designed to measure attitude traits. A sample of 50 respondents was randomly selected in the same district where the main study was carried out. After content analysis of the instrument, some items were modified and reworded. Factor analysis, using Principal components with Varimax Rotation, Kaiser Normalisation and Scree testing, were used to determine validity and reliability coefficients of instrument and categorization of factors.\par Two hundred and forty-three randomly selected Gweru urban district secondary school pupils took part in the main study. One hundred and fifteen were females and one hundred and twenty-eight were males. Forty-nine of the respondents were in form one, thirtyfour in form two, ninety three in form three and sixty seven were in form four. All respondents completed the ATS scale, which was self administered.\par Data were analysed using the SPSS -PC program \hyperref[b20]{(Hull \& Nie, 1984;}\hyperref[b27]{Rust \& Golombok, 1989}). The hypothesis was tested using Analysis of Variance statistics (ANOVA) and one way Anova statistics. The independent variables were teacher qualification, teacher's experience, and teacher gender. The dependent variables were total attitude, cognitive domain, affective and psychomotor domains which were carried out in order to test the hypothesis. The power of a statistical test depended on: The level of significance adopted, via, the probability of rejecting a true null hypothesis and accepting a false alternative hypothesis or Type 1 error, and the sample size. In this study, the hypothesis was tested using 3 levels of significance. These were 0, 05; 0, 01 and 0,001 which are all relatively high levels of significance, \hyperref[b27]{(Rust \& Golombok, 1989)}.\par Variables with factor loading of 0.3 and above, Eigen values of 1 and above were considered for the main research study \hyperref[b27]{(Rust \& Golombok, 1989} p. 1220). A 65 item attitude scale was considered long enough to keep the probability of random error low, yet not so long as to introduce data unreliability resulting from fatigue and boredom. The split half-alpha reliability and Cronbach reliability was .68 and .61 respectively. This suggested adequate reliability of the Attitude Toward Science (ATS) scale since the alpha and Cronbach values were relatively high enough \hyperref[b17]{(Helmstadter, 1988;}\hyperref[b23]{Mason \& Bramble, 1991)}. Table \hyperref[tab_0]{1} shows the Analysis of variance statistics for total attitude of pupils towards teaching and learning of Science by teacher's demographic characteristics, (antecedent variables).\par The main effects for each of teacher qualification (F=7.559; p=.006<.01), teacher experience (F = 9.046; p= .003<.01), teacher gender (F=9.768; p=.002<.01), thus, for total attitude variable, the sources of variance were teacher qualification, teacher experience, and teacher gender.\par Similarly, interaction effects for all the variance were significant, (F=5.738; p=.000<.0010. The demographic variables of teacher qualification, teacher experience, teacher gender, reflected significant variance at .01 level, ETA values for above variables are as follows: teacher qualification (.17), teachers experience in years (. \hyperref[b18]{19}), teacher gender (. \hyperref[b18]{19}), these values for the above demographic variables accounted for the observed alphas at .05 or less of 2,89\%; 3,61\%, and 4\% respectively.\par It is interesting to also note that all the demographic variables are important in explaining the total pupil attitude towards the teaching and learning of Science. The hypothesis that teachers have no significant influence on the pupil's attitude towards the learning and teaching of Science is rejected. Table \hyperref[tab_1]{2} shows a one way analysis computed for pupil total attitude by teacher's independent (demographic) variables. It was observed that although teachers' gender and teachers experience were significant in Table \hyperref[tab_0]{1} of ANOVA, the one way analysis only showed teachers experience, and gender being not significant. Table \hyperref[tab_2]{3} shows the results of Anova for knowledge and or beliefs of pupils towards teaching and learning of Science by teachers demographic variables. The main effects for each of teacher qualification (F=3.897; p= .005 < .01), teacher experience in years (F = 7.464; p =.007 <.010, gender of teacher (F = 7.807; p= .006 < .01), were significant. Thus, like in Table \hyperref[tab_0]{1}, for cognitive dimension variable, the significant sources of variance were teacher qualification, teacher experience, and teacher gender. In the similar manner, the interaction effects for all the variance were significant, (F=3.520; p =.002<.01). The demographic variables of teacher qualification, teacher experience, and teacher gender reflected significant experience (.17), gender of teacher (.15). These values for the above demographic variables accounted for the observed alphas at .01 of 1, 69\%; 2, 25\%; and 0, 36\%. respectively. \section[{b) One way analysis for Total attitude by demographic variables}]{b) One way analysis for Total attitude by demographic variables} \section[{c) Antecedent variables by pupil knowledge and beliefs about Science}]{c) Antecedent variables by pupil knowledge and beliefs about Science}\par It is interesting to note that teacher variable accounts for a large (comparatively) 6, 83\% of the variance of total attitude. The hypothesis that teachers have no significant influence on the pupil's attitude towards the learning and teaching of Science is rejected. d) One way analysis for cognitive dimension variable by teacher's demographic variables The hypothesis that says that teachers have no significant influence on the pupil's attitude towards learning and teaching of science is rejected. e) Teachers antecedent variables by pupil affective domain about Science Table \hyperref[tab_4]{5} shows the analysis of variance statistics for total feelings (affective dimension) of pupils towards teaching and learning of Science by teacher's demographic characteristics, (antecedent variables). The main effects for each of teacher qualification (F=13.629; p =. 000<.001), teacher experience p=.018<.05). Thus, for affective domain variable, the sources of variance were teacher qualification, teacher experience and teacher gender. Similarly, interaction effects for all the variance were significant, (F =9.804; p= .000<.001). Eta values for above significant variables are as follows: teacher qualification (.23), teachers experience in years (.21) and teacher gender (.14), These values for the above demographic variables accounted for the observed alphas at .05 or less of 5,29\%; 4,41\%; and 1,96\% respectively.\par It is interesting to note that all teacher demographic variables are important in explaining the total pupil feelings towards the teaching and learning of Science. The hypothesis that teachers have no significant influence on the pupil's attitude towards the learning and teaching of Science is rejected. f) One way analysis for pupils affective dimension variable by teacher's demographic variables. Both F-ratios for teachers experience, teachers gender are not significant at (p<0.05) therefore the hypothesis that teachers have no significant influence on the pupils attitude towards the learning and teaching of science is not rejected. g) Antecedent variables by pupil action about Science. Table \hyperref[tab_6]{7} shows the results of analysis of variance statistics for action / practical orientation of pupils towards the teaching and learning of Science by teacher demographic variables. It can be observed that the overall main effects, teacher qualification, teacher experience, teacher gender for psychomotor dimension for teacher demographic variables were all insignificant (p<0.05).\par V. \section[{Discussion and Conclusion}]{Discussion and Conclusion}\par The results of this study suggest that teacher gender, teacher qualification, teacher experience influenced secondary school pupil total attitude towards teaching and learning of Science (Tables \hyperref[tab_4]{1, 3 and 5}). However, when attitudes were analysed in their different components i.e. cognitive, affective and psychomotor, the teacher demographic variables were found not to have a significant effect, Tables \hyperref[tab_6]{2, 4, 6 and 7}). The Gestalt psychology, whose theoretical framework informed this study, emphasizes a holistic overview of events if any phenomena are to be explained meaningfully. Total attitude is therefore a meaningful picture, in this case, rather than to explain attitude in their individual components, cognitive, affective and psychomotor. The findings that teacher variables are associated with pupil attitude towards teaching and learning of science are considered meaningful. In the schools where the study was carried out, there were no female Science teachers. The girl child lacked feminine role models. This impacted negatively on the attitude towards Science teaching and learning.\par Teachers' colleges must encourage positive attitude and inculcate into future science teachers, a strong interest and knowledge of the subject, in order to promote proper scientific methodology. Through modeling \hyperref[b1]{(Bandura, 1997)}, the secondary school pupils develop strong interest and positive attitude towards science. All males and females; experienced and nonexperienced teachers, must aim at making science enjoyable to others through their good and correct Scientific teaching approaches. Science teachers should pay greater attention to selecting those teaching methods that would point out to the students the relevance of science to life. Students are to be motivated to like Science subjects. Institutions of higher learning which educate science teachers must envisage gender equity and equality as a mechanism for promoting pupil's attitudes towards classroom science. I am forced to conclude that to improve attitude towards Science teaching and learning, recruitment and retention of able, bright, experienced and enthusiastic teachers of Science is critical.\par I have to mention as well the limitations of my study which are with regards to the representative character of my respondents, which was wholly selected from urban schools. In pursing this study, it was not in the hope of finding out the practical solutions to problems, but rather in the hope that findings would be relevant to understanding of attitudes towards teaching and learning of Science. It was not possible, in this study, to link pupil's attitude with their Science performance in class and with career aspirations. Future study in this area is therefore called for, not only to seek answers to these questions but also to further investigate the relationships between pupils' attitudes towards science subjects and their perceptions of the world of science at work.\begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{1} \par \begin{longtable}{P{0.35589430894308943\textwidth}P{0.11747967479674797\textwidth}P{0.020731707317073172\textwidth}P{0.10020325203252033\textwidth}P{0.09329268292682927\textwidth}P{0.12093495934959349\textwidth}P{0.041463414634146344\textwidth}} Source of Variance\tabcellsep Mean\tabcellsep DF\tabcellsep Means\tabcellsep F-Ratio\tabcellsep \multicolumn{2}{l}{Sign. of F Eta}\\ \tabcellsep Square\tabcellsep \tabcellsep \tabcellsep \tabcellsep \tabcellsep \\ Main effects\tabcellsep 7151.549\tabcellsep 6\tabcellsep 84.567\tabcellsep 5.738\tabcellsep .000**\tabcellsep .36\\ Teaching qualification\tabcellsep 1708.421\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 41.333\tabcellsep 7.559\tabcellsep .006*\tabcellsep .17\\ \multicolumn{2}{l}{Teaching experience in years 2044.431}\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 45.215\tabcellsep 9.046\tabcellsep .003*\tabcellsep .19\\ Teacher gender\tabcellsep 2028.989\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 45.044\tabcellsep 9.768\tabcellsep .002*\tabcellsep .19\end{longtable} \par \caption{\label{tab_0}Table 1 :}\end{figure} \begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{2} \par \begin{longtable}{P{0.4004807692307692\textwidth}P{0.032692307692307694\textwidth}P{0.12259615384615383\textwidth}P{0.15528846153846151\textwidth}P{0.1389423076923077\textwidth}} Variable\tabcellsep DF\tabcellsep Means\tabcellsep F-Ratio\tabcellsep F-Prob.\\ Teacher experience in years\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 23.93\tabcellsep 2.4653\tabcellsep .1177\\ Teacher gender\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 16.09\tabcellsep 1.1155\tabcellsep .2920\end{longtable} \par \caption{\label{tab_1}Table 2 :}\end{figure} \begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{3} \par \begin{longtable}{P{0.32719665271966525\textwidth}P{0.14581589958158997\textwidth}P{0.021338912133891212\textwidth}P{0.10313807531380753\textwidth}P{0.09602510460251046\textwidth}P{0.10313807531380753\textwidth}P{0.05334728033472803\textwidth}} Source of Variance\tabcellsep Mean Square\tabcellsep DF\tabcellsep Means\tabcellsep F-ratio\tabcellsep Sign of F\tabcellsep Eta\\ Main Effects\tabcellsep 1158.722\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 34.040\tabcellsep 3.520\tabcellsep .002*\tabcellsep .17\\ Teacher qualification\tabcellsep 603.970\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 24.576\tabcellsep 3.897\tabcellsep .005*\tabcellsep .13\\ Teacher experience in years\tabcellsep 1156.827\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 34.012\tabcellsep 7.464\tabcellsep .007*\tabcellsep .17\\ Teacher gender\tabcellsep 902.584\tabcellsep 3\tabcellsep 30.043\tabcellsep 7.807\tabcellsep .006*\tabcellsep .15\end{longtable} \par \caption{\label{tab_2}Table 3 :}\end{figure} \begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{4} \par \begin{longtable}{P{0.3707446808510638\textwidth}P{0.036170212765957444\textwidth}P{0.12659574468085105\textwidth}P{0.17180851063829786\textwidth}P{0.14468085106382977\textwidth}} Variable\tabcellsep DF\tabcellsep Means\tabcellsep F=Ratio\tabcellsep F-Prob.\\ Teachers experience\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 23.69\tabcellsep 3.5785\tabcellsep 0597\\ Teacher Gender\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 3.92\tabcellsep 0.0971\tabcellsep .7557\end{longtable} \par \caption{\label{tab_3}Table 4 :}\end{figure} \begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{5} \par \begin{longtable}{P{0.3204918032786885\textwidth}P{0.13237704918032786\textwidth}P{0.020901639344262295\textwidth}P{0.09754098360655737\textwidth}P{0.13934426229508196\textwidth}P{0.08709016393442623\textwidth}P{0.05225409836065573\textwidth}} Source of Variance\tabcellsep Mean Square\tabcellsep DF\tabcellsep Means\tabcellsep \multicolumn{2}{l}{F-Ratio Sign. of F}\tabcellsep Eta\\ Main effects\tabcellsep 125.390\tabcellsep 6\tabcellsep 11.198\tabcellsep 9.840\tabcellsep .000***\tabcellsep .18\\ Teacher qualification\tabcellsep 201.958\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 14.211\tabcellsep 13.629\tabcellsep .000***\tabcellsep .23\\ Teacher experience in years\tabcellsep 165.273\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 12.856\tabcellsep 11.153\tabcellsep .00188\tabcellsep .21\\ Teacher gender\tabcellsep 72.375\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 8.507\tabcellsep 5.959\tabcellsep .018*\tabcellsep .14\end{longtable} \par \caption{\label{tab_4}Table 5 :}\end{figure} \begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{6} \par \begin{longtable}{P{0.37978723404255316\textwidth}P{0.036170212765957444\textwidth}P{0.1175531914893617\textwidth}P{0.17180851063829786\textwidth}P{0.14468085106382977\textwidth}} Variable\tabcellsep DF\tabcellsep Means\tabcellsep F-Ratio\tabcellsep F-Prob\\ Teachers' experience\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 4.65\tabcellsep 1.3880\tabcellsep .2399\\ Teacher gender\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 7.26\tabcellsep 3.4186\tabcellsep .0657\end{longtable} \par \caption{\label{tab_5}Table 6 :}\end{figure} \begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{7} \par \begin{longtable}{P{0.3506726457399103\textwidth}P{0.13340807174887892\textwidth}P{0.015246636771300448\textwidth}P{0.0952914798206278\textwidth}P{0.10291479820627802\textwidth}P{0.0952914798206278\textwidth}P{0.05717488789237668\textwidth}} Source of Variance\tabcellsep \multicolumn{2}{l}{Mean Square DF}\tabcellsep Means\tabcellsep F.Ratio\tabcellsep Sign. of F\tabcellsep Eta\\ Main Effects\tabcellsep 26.403\tabcellsep 6\tabcellsep 5.138\tabcellsep 1.538\tabcellsep .166\tabcellsep .08\\ Teacher qualification\tabcellsep 5.955\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 2.440\tabcellsep 0.340\tabcellsep .560\tabcellsep .04\\ Teacher experience in years\tabcellsep 5.110\tabcellsep 1\tabcellsep 2.261\tabcellsep 0.292\tabcellsep .590\tabcellsep .03\\ Teacher gender\tabcellsep 8.334\tabcellsep 3\tabcellsep 2.887\tabcellsep 0.070\tabcellsep .71\tabcellsep .04\end{longtable} \par \caption{\label{tab_6}Table 7 :}\end{figure} \backmatter \par 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