In 21. century, science and technology continually develop, change. Thus, countries constantly necessitate replacing the training initiatives to keep pace with this change. Children's attitudes towards science and scientists may affect their interest in science and scientific fields, desires to have a career to be a scientist.

Research on students' images of scientists that they have has increased since 1950. The first studies on this subject in the United States in 1957 were by Mead and Metraux, their findings of the study shoes that for the students, scientist is the person who "white apron wearing and working in laboratories, usually bearded, surrounded by test tubes, plates, etc. and acce surrounded by days of undergoing the test.

Turkmen (2008) found out 286 fifth grade elementary school students perceived scientists usually male, Caucasian race, quite old, wearing a white apron and think of them as the people who work in the laboratory. In addition, the findings of the different studies available in the literature, some of the students see scientists smiling, wearing a tie and perceived as people who work in the garden.

The purpose of this study, to determine gender, and class-level’s effect on the attitudes and perceptions of scientists of secondary school level of 5 6. 7. and 8 grade students. Research, 2012 - 2013 academic year, will consist of class of a secondary school in the district of Yozgat Sorgun, with 5, 6, 7, 8 grade. In this study, in order to determine the image of middle school students to scientists, DAST (Draw a Scientist) test developed by Chambers (1983), will be used. DAST is organized an open-ended test to provide information about students' images of scientists. In addition, a Likert-type scale to be obtained from the literature study will be used. We will have an interview with a group of students a certain number of levels of class. The study will be a fact-finding study used both qualitative and quantitative methods

Dissertation  analysis based on the data from YOK in our country shows the limitation on the findings of studies conducted in this area. this study will contribute to the strengthening of the literature. In addition, the findings of the study, teachers who work in this field, will contribute to the program developers and educational politicians study, one of the expected results. as a result of the science education, the higher the grade level, students' attitudes towards scientists show a change in a positive direction and images closer to reality. Another consequence expected, the male students than female students have the more positive attitudes towards scientists since science is considered as limited to mechanical issues, especially men are encouraged to those issues. 

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