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Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Students' Engagement and Participation in Science Activities through Factor Analysis and Rasch Analysis
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Testa, Italo; Costanzo, Giovanni; Crispino, Marianna; Galano, Silvia; Parlati, Alessio; Tarallo, Oreste; Tricò, Francesca; Scotti di Uccio, Umberto – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
In this study, we present a new instrument, the Participation and Engagement Scale (PES), for the evaluation of the students' involvement in STEM-oriented activities. The instrument was administered to about 1000 secondary school students who participated in the activities of the Italian "Piano Nazionale Lauree Scientifiche" in Biology,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Science Instruction, Science Activities, Distance Education
Attitude towards the Discipline of Physics-Chemistry and School Achievement: Revisiting Factor Structure to Assess Gender Differences in Portuguese High-School Students
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Vilia, Paulo; Candeias, Adelinda A. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
The importance of attitudes and other variables of the affective domain in education is acknowledged for a long time. In this study, we used an attitude questionnaire to survey 498 Portuguese 9th-grade students to determine the predictive ability of the attitudes towards the discipline of Physics-chemistry on school achievement. Possible gender…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Student Attitudes, Factor Structure, High School Students
The Analysis of High School Students' Conceptions of Learning in Different Domains
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Sadi, Özlem – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether or not conceptions of learning diverge in different science domains by identifying high school students' conceptions of learning in physics, chemistry and biology. The Conceptions of Learning Science (COLS) questionnaire was adapted for physics (Conceptions of Learning Physics, COLP), chemistry…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes
Toward a Tripartite Model of Research Motivation: Development and Initial Validation of the Research Motivation Scale
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Deemer, Eric D.; Martens, Matthew P.; Buboltz, Walter C. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2010
An instrument designed to measure a 3-factor model of research motivation was developed and psychometrically examined in the present research. Participants were 437 graduate students in biology, chemistry/biochemistry, physics/astronomy, and psychology. A principal components analysis supported the retention of 20 items representing the 3-factor…
Descriptors: Motivation, Measures (Individuals), Graduate Students, Factor Structure