Thursday, March 21, 2013
Jackie Stewart (Chemistry)
With contributions from: Gulnur Birol (SCLT), Paul Carter (CS), Jim Carolan (Physics), Warren Code (SCLT), Louis Deslauriers (Physics), Bruce Dunham (Statistics), Brett Gilley (EOAS), Malin Hansen (Biology), Allison Elliott Tew (CS)
This supper series will explore the development and use of discipline specific attitudinal surveys in the Faulty of Science at UBC. These surveys measure shifts in students’ perceptions of the discipline against a novice-expert-continuum. Since 2006, thousands of Science students in lower and upper level science courses have been surveyed and provided invaluable insights into our understanding of student attitudes and beliefs in their discipline. While we share results from the CLASS-Chemistry survey, we will also provide highlights from attitudinal surveys that are being used in other science disciplines at UBC. We will then collaboratively explore best practices in implementing such instruments and explore potential uses of such data to improve student learning as it is proven to be related to their attitudes in the discipline.
