Best Practices for Measuring Students’ Attitudes toward Learning Science
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Best Practices for Measuring Students’ Attitudes toward Learning Science
Science educators often characterize the degree to which tests measure different facets of college students' learning, such as knowing, applying, and problem solving. A casual survey of scholarship of teaching and learning research studies reveals that many educators also measure how students' attitudes influence their learning. Students' science attitudes refer to their positive or negative fe...
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عنوان ژورنال: CBE—Life Sciences Education
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1931-7913
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.12-11-0197