An approach to measuring scientific attitudes

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“…Por su parte, los académicos, generalmente poseen solo formación técnica en su disciplina, lo que los limita en la responsabilidad de guiar el proceso de cambio, y afrontar los impactos negativos que ello pueda provocar en los estudiantes de mayores carencias. Como consecuencia, el docente universitario, se limita a atribuir los malos resultados, a factores familiares y a la educación básica previa del estudiante (Kozlow & Nay 1976). Podemos agregar que las expresiones de intolerancia del profesor, frustrado por la falta de conciencia de algunos estudiantes sobre la necesidad de mejorar sus comportamientos, genera un clima de enojos, temores y desconfianza, que impide el aprendizaje de calidad.…”

Successful achievements by girls in physics learning

“…The practical tests concerned Manipulative Skills (MS) and Problem Solving (PS). The pencil-and-paper tests were a Knowledge Achievement in Physics Test (KAP), a Preference for Sources of Evidence Test (SOE) and Kozlow and Nay's (1976) Test of Scientific Attitudes (SA). Apart from the last test, all the tests were specifically developed for this study.…”

The affective domain related to science education and its evaluation

“…Reliabilities for this scale with different groups ranged from 0.55 to 0.74 which the developers reported as being satisfactory and acceptable based upon the reliabilities obtained by other instruments measuring scientific attitudes. Kozlow and Nay (1976) developed a similar instrument to Billeh and Zakhariades using the same six components. Their test of scientific attitudes (TOSA) contained cognitive and affective aspects.…”