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BASICS Study ECS Teacher Implementation and Contextual Factor Questionnaire Measures

Assessment Type: Questionnaire

This questionnaire collects background information, measures the implementation of Exploring Computer Science (ECS) curriculum, contextual factors that influence teacher use of the CS curriculum, and socio-demographics.

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Children's Environmental Attitudes & Social Knowledge Scale (CHEAKS)

Assessment Type: 36 5-point Likert scale items (addressing attitude) & 30 multiple-choice questions (addressing knowledge)

Measures children's global attitudes and knowledge about environmental issues, such as animals, energy, pollution, recycling, water, and general issues.

Average Review: 3 (3.7)

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Discovery Inquiry Test in Science (DIT)

Assessment Type: 29 multiple choice items (11 focusing on life science, 8 on physical science, 6 on earth and space science, and 4 on the nature of science); 20 items involve solving problems or conducting inquiry

Measures students' ability to analyze and interpret data, extrapolate from one situation to another, and utilize conceptual understanding.

Average Review: 4 (4.0)

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Exploring Physics Confidence Survey

Assessment Type: 6 closed-ended questions

This evaluation instrument was developed for Exploring Physics, an extra curricular program for 5-7 grade students, with a focus on female students. It is part of an NSF funded program entitled Promoting Young Women in the Physical Sciences.

Average Review: 3 (3.0)

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National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Science Assessment Instrument

Assessment Type: Multiple choice, short constructed response questions, and extended constructed response questions.

Evaluates students' knowledge of three fields of science (earth, physical, and life), three elements of knowing and doing science (conceptual understanding, scientific investigation, and practical reasoning), and two overarching domains in science (the nature of science and themes-systems, models, and patterns-present in science).

Average Review: 5 (5.0)

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Project Quantum

Assessment Type: Surveys/Online Assessments

Project Quantum is an ambitious project to crowd source a bank of high quality multiple choice questions for assessing computing in schools, developed jointly by Computing At School, The Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM), Cambridge Assessment and the Diagnostic Questions team.

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Views about Science Survey (VASS)

Assessment Type: 30 multiple choice items (13 related to scientific dimensions, 17 related to cognitive dimensions) set up as contrasting alternatives design (CAD).

Probes personal beliefs about the nature of science within 3 scientific dimensions (structure, methodology, and validity of science) and learning science within 3 cognitive dimensions (learnability, reflective thinking, and personal relevance of science).

Average Review: 4 (4.0)

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Views of Nature of Science Questionnaire (VNOS-D)

Assessment Type: 7 open-ended questions, along with an individual interview.

Assesses students' views about the empirical, tentative, inferential, and creative and imaginative nature of science, as well as the distinction between observation and inference.

Average Review: 4 (4.0)

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Views on Science-Technology-Society (VOSTS)

Assessment Type: Catalogue of 114 multiple choice questions

"Monitors" students' views concerning the epistemological, social & technological aspects of science.

Average Review: 3 (3.0)

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