Effect of science and technology club on students' science and technology literacy and attitudes towards science

The purpose of this study is to determine whether The Science and Technology Club has effect on the scientific and technology literacy and the attitude towards science of primary school students or not. The study was applied to the second level students of an elementary school which attached to the Ministry of National Education in Kandıra town of Kocaeli province in the second term of 2010-2011 educational year.The study is an experimental study one, in this study pre-test ? post-test control group pattern is used. A total of 48 students randomly selected by assigning were included in the survey, 24 students from the experimental group and 24 students from the control group. In the experimental group, activities of the Science and Technology Club were applied; whereas in the control group, activities of the other clubs were applied.In this study, Scientific Literacy Scale developed by Keskin (2008) and Attitude Towards Science of Scale by Duran (2008) were used for data collection. Scientific Literacy Scale and Attitudes Toward Science Scale was applied as pre-test and post-test to control and experimental groups. The data were analyzed in SPSS 15.0 computer program. The meaningful level of the results was accepted .05. In analysing data, aritmetic mean, t-test, Mann Whitney U-testi for Independent Samples and ANCOVA were used.End of the study, it was found that there were no diffrences between experimental and control groups, but, in the other hand both experimental and control groups science and technology literacy have been increased. It was understood that studies of The Science and Tecnology Club has no effect on the attitude towards science on the second level of primary school students. Based on the results obtained in the research, some suggestions were given to the educators and the researchers.Key Words: Science and Technology Education, Science and Technology Club, Science and Technology Literacy, Attitude