STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE AND THEIR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT INVIRTUAL LABORATORY CLASS

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to determine the students` attitudes, assess their learning environment, and find out the relationship between students` attitudes and learning environment in virtual laboratory class among 173 science education students from the College of Education, Central Mindanao University. This quantitative study used descriptive correlation research as research design and data analysis. The results of the study revealed that the students' attitude in virtual laboratory classes in terms of inquiry was acceptable, and the enjoyment was highly acceptable among the respondents. For the learning environment in virtual laboratory classes, five dimensions were moderately practiced, namely: integration, material environment, teacher support, task orientation, and investigation. Only the dimension of differentiation was fairly practiced among the science education students. The result of the Pearson (r) correlation shows the significant relationship between the learning environment and students' attitudes in virtual laboratory classes. The study recommends that enhancing the setup for virtual laboratory is one of the keys to promoting a positive attitude and in performance of the students in the activities and experimentations.