How can we augment female students’ participation in first and second year Physics classes; The case of Adigrat University

  Mengisteab Gebrehiwot Meressa,  Berhe Zewde Aregawi,  Haftom Gebremariam Mihretu

The primary purpose of this study was to enhance female students’ participation by recognizing and diminishing the existing factors that affect female students’ participation in case of First and Second Year Physics students at Adigrat University. Physics learning content in University classrooms would not only be related to the textbooks and materials used in classrooms, but would also be embodied in the knowledge structure, the ways the knowledge was presented, as well as being strongly associated with classroom activities and classroom teaching strategies. Contextual and content factors are likely to interact with each other to have a combined influence on female students’ learning motivation and career interests in physics, which in turn jointly have an influence on learning experiences, and hence, the development of physics self-efficiency. However, little research has been conducted at the University level with respect to considering the relationship between physics learning content and physics self-efficiency. In order to address this gap, this study was conducted to evaluate the factors that affect female students’ participation in physics classes. Study data was collected by the researchers using data collection instruments such as questionnaires, interview and observation. The data collected through interviews, questionnaires and observation was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequency distribution and percentages. In this analysis descriptive statistics frequency was calculated and tabulated. Based on the research findings it was concluded that the most influential factor on female students’ low participation in physics is their poor opinions about physics classes

Keywords- Physics, questionnaire, interview, observation

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1801081
Page Number(s) - 476-482
Pubished in - Volume 6 | Issue 1 | January 2018
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Mengisteab Gebrehiwot Meressa,  Berhe Zewde Aregawi,  Haftom Gebremariam Mihretu,   "How can we augment female students’ participation in first and second year Physics classes; The case of Adigrat University", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.6, Issue 1, pp.476-482, January 2018, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1801081.pdf