The Research On The Middle School Students' Interest Of Studying Chemistry

The objective of the new curriculum on chemistry at the compulsory education phase aims not only to help the student to master the basic knowledge and skill in order of the subject, but also to raise their learning interest of in studying chemistry in their future study by the way of learning an equal, pleasant, automatic leaning process. Therefore, it's vital to improve students'learning interest and make good use of the nonintellectual factor, which may help students make progress in their individual development. However, according to the current education situation survey, there'still some distance between the reality and the objective within the junior middle-school chemistry class. For instance, the social factors and value systems which lay less emphasis on the subject have some bad influence on students'leaning interest; the disagreement between the newly-designed textbook and the out-of-date teaching methods makes the chemistry class lack of autonomy and creativity, furthermore, staggers students'leaning interest.The reform on chemistry curriculum is being undergone. It is designed to make the chemistry teaching more suitable to the social reality, more practical for the students to take good advantage of their own experience and more attractive to the student. For the chemistry teachers, they need to meet all the above requirements in order to put forward the teaching methodology reform and enhance the teaching effectiveness. Thus the author of this thesis conducted survey and among students in 5 junior middle schools in Huhhot by using questionnaire, interviews in the autumn of 2005 and at the beginning of 2006.Data collected from the surveys show that there are 91.6% students who were interested in learning chemistry before they started to have...