Speakers
Dr
Danilo Catena
(Department of Physics "E. Pancini")
danilo catena
Description
The purpose of this study was to analyze whether high school and university students’ attitudes towards physics show evidence of a gender bias. To this aim, we used a new framework, the Semiotic Cultural Psychological Theory (SCPT). A view-of-physics questionnaire was used as instrument to collect data with 1,603 high school and university Italian students. We identified four attitudes towards physics: a) interesting and important for society; b) quite interesting, but not useful for society; c) difficult and irrelevant for society; d) niche that protect from society. The identified attitudes do show a significant gender bias but with a weak effect.
Author
Dr
Danilo Catena
(Department of Physics "E. Pancini")
Co-author
Italo Testa
(University Federico II Naples)
