High School Students' Motivation Towards Biology Learning

The vision of the biology curriculum in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) is to improve the students' biology literacy. Motivation plays an important role in this vision of biology curriculum. In this study, we examined the motivation levels of 9th grade students attending two different schools in Nicosia. The findings have shown that Turkish Cypriot high school students are eager to learn biology. Results have shown that there is a significant gender difference in stimulation of learning environment between the science high school students. It has been also that male students were better motivated in stimulation of learning environment of biology than female students. In addition, active learning strategy and stimulation of learning environment are significant predictors for biology learning value for these samples. Finally, it has been also found that there are positive, mid, and low-level relations among the motivation subscales.