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The goal of this research is to identify the awareness level among the primary school Science teachers on the importance of Science laboratory management. The targeted respondents are 116 primary school Science teachers from the Manjung district. The study used and instrument (Soal Selidik Tahap Kesedaran Kepentingan Pengurusan Makmal Sains (STKKPMS) that was used by Noordin & Othman (2017), to identify the awareness level of secondary school preservice teachers on Science laboratory management. Though the questionnaire is designed for secondary school teachers, but it had been adapted to primary school Science teachers’ knowledge. The collected data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25.0. The results support that primary school Science teachers have high level of understanding and knowledge in almost all the domains and subdomains tested in this study. Two main domains discussed are Science Laboratory Management and Science Laboratory Safety Management, where in the first domain, the highest mean is from teachers’ awareness on maintenances and purchasing done for the Science laboratory. In Science Laboratory Safety Management, the highest mean contributor is on laboratory guidelines and the least would be on chemical handling.
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Baskaran, V. L., Abdullah, N., & Teck, W. K. (2024). The Awareness Level among Primary School Science Teachers on The Importance of Science Laboratory Management. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 14(1), 3261–3275.
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