Determination of science and biology teachers’ ethical sensitivities towards the use of experimental animals
Determination of science and biology teachers’ ethical sensitivities towards the use of experimental animals

Summary/Abstract: It is important to determine the ethical sensitivities of teachers who have a high potential to work with experimental animals due to their branches. With this purpose, the current study aimed to determine science and biology teachers’ ethical opinions about the use of experimental animals. To collect data, the questionnaire of opinions about the use of experimental animals was employed. The collected data were analysed by using descriptive statistics, percentages, frequencies, mean values and t-test. There were 70 participants. While the science and biology teachers approached the sixth item, ‘Animals can be used in experiments in which they experience some pain for the benefits of humanity’, with higher ethical sensitivity, the female participants were found to be more sensitive towards the second item, ‘Alternative methods should be the first methods to be employed by researchers’. It is suggested that science and biology teachers should be subjected to training to raise their ethical sensitivities about the issue.

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