Secondary School Teachers’ Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Educational Research

Abstract

This study investigated relationships among secondary teachers’ attitude toward and knowledge of educational research and selected demographic characteristics of the sample. A sample of 204 teachers voluntarily completed a knowledge of educational research test, a semantic differential attitude inventory, and a personal data form. Using ANOVA, it was concluded that: 1.) knowledge and attitude scores are related to subject area taught; 2.) knowledge scores are related to subject area taught, recency of course work in educational research, measurement, or statistics, and research participation; 3.) attitude and knowledge scores are unrelated to the sex of the teacher, years of teaching experience, and grade level taught; and 4.) the correlation between knowledge and attitude scores is not significantly different from zero.