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Designing a Likert-Type Scale to Assess Attitude toward Metrication.
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Shrigley, Robert L.; Trueblood, Cecil R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1979
Describes the design of an instrument to measure the attitudes of teachers toward metrication, and reports on its reliability and validity. (GA)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Educational Research, Higher Education, Instrumentation
The Effects of Immediate Achievement and Retention of Middle School Students Involved in a Metric Unit Designed to Promote the Development of Estimating Skills.
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Jones, Michael L.; Rowsey, Robert E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1990
Seventh-grade students (n=397) were studied to determine the effect on immediate achievement and retention of a unit designed to promote the development of estimating skills involved in metric measuring. Identical metric instruction was used with the exception of activities in estimation for the treatment group. The treatment group retained…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Research, Estimation (Mathematics), Grade 7
Persuasive Communication: A Theoretical Model for Changing the Attitude of Preservice Elementary Teachers toward Metric Conversion.
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Shrigley, Robert L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1982
Based on Hovland's four-part statement, "who says what to whom with what effect," opinions were surveyed from preservice elementary teachers (N=139) and mathematics educators (N=45) to establish characteristics of metric educators (who) and content (what) of persuasive communication useful in influencing attitudes of preservice teachers…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers