Shaping Attitudes Toward Science in an Introductory Astronomy Class

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2009-02-19

arxiv.org/abs/0902.3321v2

Physics Teacher 47, 591 (2009)

Physics

Physics Education

v2 includes a copy of the survey

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At many universities, astronomy is a popular way for non-science majors to fulfill a general education requirement. Because general-education astronomy may be the only college-level science course taken by these students, it is the last chance to shape the science attitudes of these future journalists, teachers, politicians, and voters. I report on an attempt to measure and induce changes in science attitudes in my general-education astronomy course. I describe construction of the attitude survey, classroom activities designed to influence attitudes, and give numerical results indicating a significant improvement. In contrast, the literature on attitudes in introductory physics courses generally reports stagnation or decline. I briefly comment on some plausible explanations for this difference.

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