A Study On Chemical Self-concept Relating To Chemical Performance Of Junior Middle School Student And Their Parenting Styles

The core idea of New Curriculum Reform aims at the development of all the students.In recent years,many schools and teachers on the front line have made great efforts and achieved impressive progress in aspects such as teaching concept and teaching methods,as examples of which are five-step teaching mode and flipped classroom.These class patterns and assessment formats are student-oriented,which stimulates students'enthusiasm and initiative.However,there are still some real questions under these reforms.In some classes,students seem to be activated,but in fact,most students in the class try to be active for the purpose of meeting the teachers' requirements or get better scores.Among the students are some who are making up a number without effective work.Very few students who gives up this course,sleeps in class.It's no use changing the teaching methods or improving the teaching assessment.Obviously the reasons for this phenomenon don't lie in teachers but students.If students' self concept of chemistry and their subjective initiative are not strong,their performance in chemistry will be influenced directly.If this essential issue is solved,students will make new progress.Trying to adapt High school students,chemical self concept scale written by Yibing Liu into Junior high school students' chemical self concept scale,which is more suitable for the-local circumstances and putting this scale into practice by doing questionnaires survey on students in grade nine from three schools like Nanya Middle School,Nanya Xiangjiang Middle School in Changsha and Fukou Middle School in Lianyuan,Loudi,and finally making a comparison between the parenting patterns of top students and that of potential students,the essay aims to find the relationship between students' self-concept in chemistry and parenting patterns with the help of correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis.Conclusions are made as follows.(1)Measurements results show that currently the self-concept in chemistry of students from these three schools is of middle level.The average score in respective dimensions ranks from high to low like this:self-experience in chemistry,self-regulation in chemistry and self-cognition in chemistry.(2)Self-conception in chemistry of students in grade nine is quite different from three dimensions with regard to academic achievement.Their development level can be divided into three levels,that is,high score group,middle score group and low score group.(3)Results show that there is no difference in parental warmth and understanding between top students and potential students,but in other dimensions,difference is significant as parents of potential students get higher scores in punishment,being strict,rejection,denial,excessive interference and over-protection.(4)The correlation between top students' parenting patterns and self-concept in Chemistry shows that three dimensions in Chemistry,namely,self-experience,self-regulation and self-cognition,have a positive correlation with the two dimensions of parental warmth and parental understanding.Self-cognition in Chemistry has an obvious negative correlation with parents' refusal and denial.Meanwhile,a negative correlation also exits between self-regulation in chemistry and mothers' punishment as well as severity.(5)The correlation between potential students' parenting patterns and self-concept in Chemistry shows that two dimensions in Chemistry,namely,self-cognition and self-experience,have a positive correlation with parental warmth as well as parental understanding.Self-cognition in Chemistry has a remarkable negative correlation with parents' refusal and denial.Meanwhile,a negative correlation also exits between self-experience in chemistry and fathers' rejection as well as denial.