Science curriculum-linked career education activities enable middle school students to Influence on scientific attitude and scientific career orientation

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of career education activities linked to science subjects on the scientific attitude and science career orientation of first-year middle school students. The subjects of the study were 60 first-year students from 00 middle schools in the metropolitan area who chose science curriculum-related career education, and 16 sessions of science curriculum-related career education were provided to these students. The scientific attitude and science career orientation tests were used as research tools, and the pre-test and post-test results were compared. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS WIN 23.0, and paired-sample t-test was performed. The research results are as follows. First, comparing the pre-test and post-test after applying the program, the average scores for each item of scientific attitude and science career orientation both improved. Second, in particular, among the scientific attitude factors, openness, criticism, and voluntariness, and among the science career orientation factors, preference for science learning, science career preference, and value perception of a science career had a statistically significant effect at the significance level of .05. It's crazy. Third, as a result of analyzing the research results and student surveys, it was concluded that a career education program linked to science subjects through free grade topic selection activities helps improve the scientific attitude and science career orientation of first-year middle school students. This program can also be said to be a meaningful study in that it can be used in subject classes.