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Dear Kit,
When you did your first pre/post administration, did you see any changes
in attitudes? How long was the science intervention between pre and
post? What tool did you use to observe the students? Did your
observations show that there was gain, but the TOSRA results were stable
over time or declined?
These references are great. I will especially look at TOSRA 2. As we
were going to administer only a few subscales from the original tool,
this might be a better option.
I have another reference where they used TOSRA pre/post, but they did
not document any significant changes.
Turner S. & Ireson G. (2010). Fifteen pupils’ positive approach to
primary school science: when does it decline?. Educational Studies,
36:2, 119-141.
Would be interesting to know if other folks used TOSRA or other tools to
measure attitudes towards science in a pre/post format.
Thank you for your response and references.
Anahit
On 1/29/13 3:38 PM, Kit Klein wrote:
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> Hi Anahit,
> Great question! I hope others will reply too. I found the TOSRA on your
> website, www.pearweb.org/atis <http://www.pearweb.org/atis> and was glad I
> did. Now that I'm using it, I see the need for something better. Can
> anyone recommend a good tool for measuring attitudes toward science and
> scientists?
>
> I've been using the TOSRA2 (a shorter version of TOSRA) with an evaluation
> at the Saint Louis Science Center. I've given one pre- and one post-test,
> but will have another round this spring and summer. The audience, teens in
> the Youth Exploring Science program, are an urban, mostly African American
> and recent immigrant population. The results of the first round didn't
> match our observations and other data, so we will be looking at each item
> soon to see if perhaps a few questions are out of date or not appropriate
> to our urban teens facing an economic downturn.
>
> I have three references. I've tried contacting all the authors. Fraser is
> the only one who replied. I asked for newer information (he had none) and
> permission to use it (he was fine with that). Does anyone have better
> information?
>
> Fraser, B. J. (1981). TOSRA Test of Science-Related Attitudes Handbook.
> Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, Australian Council for Educational Research.
>
> Ledbetter, C.E., and Nix, R. 2002. TOSRA2: Instrument for External
> Evaluation for National Science Foundation, Project SCORE. NSF: Washington
> DC.
>
>
>
> Mountz, D.K. (2006). The effect of a science core sequence reform on
> students’ attitudes toward science. Unpublished dissertation, Immaculata
> University.
>
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Kit
>
>
> Christine (Kit) Klein, Ph.D.
>
> Klein Consulting
>
> ckleinconsulting.com
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Anahit Papazian <
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>> Hello,
>> I was wondering if anyone has conducted studies using the Test of Science
>> Related Attitudes (TOSRA) in a pre-post format (triangulated with other
>> tools, or just by itself), or if you know of such studies or articles that
>> you can point me to.
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Anahit
>>
>> Anahit Papazian, M.Ed., M.P.H.
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>> Harvard University and McLean Hospital
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