Prospective Biology and Chemistry Teachers’ Satisfaction with Laboratory and Laboratory Facilities: The Effect of Gender and University

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate last year prospective biology and chemistry teachers’ satisfaction level with laboratory and laboratory facilities offered by their department and faculty with regard to gender and university. 60 senior prospective Biology Teachers and 101 senior prospective Chemistry Teachers participated in the study. Prospective Science Teacher Satisfaction Scale (PSTSS) was used for obtaining relevant data. PSTSS consists of five sub-scales. For this study, we used “laboratory and its facilities” subscale consisting of 14 items. The alpha (α) level of this subscale was .93. The results pointed out that last year prospective Biology and Chemistry Teachers had a tendency towards satisfaction on biology and chemistry laboratories but not at the desired level. Significant difference was not observed between male and female participants. Most of variance of dependent variable was accounted by the effect of school (university) which suggests that school facilities greatly influence student satisfaction.