The elementary school students' perceptions towards teaching science the effect of some variables

The present study aims to determine the relationship between fourth and fifth grade elementary school students? perceptions of science teaching and some variables drawing upon their self-drawings. The study group comprise 704 fourth and fifth grade students receiving education at schools selected within the province of Afyonkarahisar. The data of the research were obtained through the responses of 704 students to `Draw-A-Science-Teacher-Test Checklist? and `Areas of Multiple Intelligence Observation Form?. In accordance with the purposes of the study, the data obtained through the applied scales were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, correlation analysis, mann whitney u-test and kruskal-wallis test. SPSS 16.0 software was used for the statistical analysis of the data. The level of significance in the study was agreed to be .05. The data analysis shows that students? perceptions of science teaching differ in terms of gender, grade level, socio-economic level, fathers? educational level, mothers? educational level and furthermore, a high correlation was found between students? perceptions of science teaching and their conceptions of multiple intelligence types.