IJSE appendices
Research report
Appendices for the following article:
The impact of teachers and their science teaching on students’ ‘science interest’: A four year study Marianne Logan and Keith Skamp
School of Education, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia International Journal of Science Education, DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2012.667167
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Appendix A: Interview Questions for Semi-Structured Interview with Individual Students
Appendix B: Short Survey Questions for Student Participants
Appendix C: Individual Students’ ‘Science Interest’ and ‘Difficult Science’ scores followed by their Sub-Scale scores for Science Enthusiast, Social Context and Independent Investigator (Pell & Jarvis, 2001). Year Level Teachers are Shown
Appendix D: Favourite Subject, Science Career across Years 7 to 10, and Senior School Science Choices when in Year 10 (Also shown are Class Ability Levels, SI/SE Scores and Year level teachers)
References
APPENDIX A Interview Questions for Semi-Structured Interview with Individual Students
- What sort of things do you like to do when you are not at school? (Reiss, 2000).
- Why do you like doing these things?
- What are your favourite subjects at school?
- What have you been doing in science at school? (Reiss, 2000).
- What do you like about science lessons? (Goodrum, Hackling & Rennie, 2001, p. 215]).
- Why do you like doing these things?
- Is there anything you find difficult to do in science? (Murphy & Beggs, 2003).
- What don’t you like about science lessons? (Goodrum, Hackling & Rennie, 2001, p. 215]).
- Why don’t you like doing these things?
- Why do you think you do science in school? (Jo & Song, 2003; Goodrum, Hackling and Rennie, 2001, p. 215).
- If you were in charge of planning science for your class, what sort of science lessons would you plan?
- How would you compare science in year X (previous year) to science this year?
APPENDIX B Short Survey Questions for Student Participants
- What did you like doing in science?
- Why did you like doing it?
- Why are you interested in still doing it?
- Is there anything in science that you don’t like doing?
- (If so) Why don’t you like doing it? (Jo & Song, 2003; Goodrum, Hackling and Rennie, 2001, p. 215).