Dear List members ,
Sorry for this posting. Actually I was not aware that I should not attach the
file along with the mail. Kindly find pested below the statements from both the
tools.
Instrument 1
Astronomy Scale
Introduction:
This survey is designed to study the attitude of the visually impaired school
students toward Science in general and Astronomy in particular at upper primary
level. It is modeled on a survey of "Survey of Attitudes Toward Astronomy"
developed by Michael Zeilik University of New Mexico.
The items fall into four subscales: affect (attitude), cognitive
competence, value, and difficult. Affect relates to positive and negative
attitudes about astronomy and science (8 items). Cognitive competence
describes attitudes about the students' intellectual knowledge and skills when
applied to astronomy and science (9 items). Value involves attitudes about the
usefulness, relevance, and worth of astronomy and science in personal and
professional life (9 items). Difficulty entails attitudes about the difficulty
of astronomy and science as subjects (8 items).
The Instrument
The questions below are designed to identify your attitudes about
astronomy and science. The item scale has 5 possible responses; the responses
range from 1 (strongly disagree) through 3 (neighter agree nor disagree) to 5
(strongly agree). Please read each question. From the 5-point scale mark the
response that most clearly represents your agreement with the statement. Use
the entire 5-point scale. Try not to think too deeply about each response;
there are no correct or incorrect answers.
1.. Astronomy is a subject which can be learned even by visually impaired
people.
2.. I had trouble understanding astronomy because of how I think.
3.. Astronomy concepts are easy for me to understand.
4.. Astronomy is irrelevant to my life.
5.. I get frustrated going over astronomy tests in class.
6.. I was under stress during astronomy class.
7.. I can understand the causes and effects of the Astronomical concepts I
learn.
8.. Learning astronomy requires a great deal of intellectual ability.
9.. I have no idea of what's going on in astronomy class.
10.. I like astronomy.
11.. What I learned in astronomy will not be useful in my future career.
12.. One has to learn a new way of thinking to learn astronomy.
13.. Astronomy is highly technical.
14.. I feel insecure when I have to do astronomy homework.
15.. I find it difficult to understand astronomy concepts.
16.. I enjoy learning astronomy.
17.. I make a lot of mistakes in learning concepts in astronomy.
18.. Astronomy involves memorizing a lot of facts.
19.. Astronomy is a complicated subject for me as it involves lot of visual
matter.
20.. I can learn astronomy.
21.. Astronomy is worthless for visually impaired people.
22.. I am scared of astronomy.
23.. Astronomy concepts are rarely related to everyday life of visually
impaired person.
24.. Astronomy concepts are not that difficult to understand for visually
impaired person.
25.. Science in general and Astronomy in particular is not useful to the
typical professions for visually impaired people.
26.. The thought of taking a science degree in future scares me.
27.. I like science.
28.. I find it difficult to understand scientific concepts.
29.. I am confident that I can learn science.
30.. Education in Science will make me more employable.
31.. Science is a complicated subject.
32.. I feel that Science is to be used in everyday life.
33.. Scientific thinking is not applicable to my life.
34.. Science should be a required part of my future professional training.
35.. Visually impaired persons should not take any risk to choose Science as
their future career.
Instrument 2
Science Curiosity Scale
Please read the following statements and circle the choice that most truthfully
tells how your feel about that statement.
1.. Books and Stories on Science are interesting.
2.. I like to listen to television or radio programs about science.
3.. I enjoy collecting leaves or other things from the outdoors.
4.. I like to hear about different magic shows.
5.. It is boring to read about different kinds of animals.
6.. I really don't want to know the life under the oceans.
7.. I would like to listen to scientists talk about their inventions.
8.. I want to know what causes wind.
9.. I would like to explore with different gadgets in the home.
10.. It is boring to read the biographies of various scientists.
11.. It is fun to see inside of toys to learn how they work.
12.. I like to talk about the planets and stars.
13.. Information about volcanoes is interesting.
14.. I would like to know about the sky and the stars at night.
15.. I don't enjoy reading about space missions.
16.. It is fun to take walks in the nature and feel the plants and animals.
17.. I like to grow plants.
18.. I like to read about how the life started on the earth.
19.. I like to listen the TV or radio news reports about the eclipse.
20.. I would like to visit a museum to feel dinosaur bones.
21.. It is boring to heart other people tell about things astronauts have
seen or done
22.. I like to ask questions about how animals live.
23.. 23. I am interested in knowing about how different plants , flowers
look.
----- Original Message -----
From: KALPANA
To: [email protected]
Cc: Prashant Naik ; shailendra Bhakare ; [email protected]
Sent: 21 April, 2013 1:02 PM
Subject: Kindly give your valuable inputs
Dear Moderator,
Kindly permit me to post this message for list members. This is the only
platform where I can approach to our friends. I feel the inputs given by our
list members will be a great value addition to my project for our vi kids.
Dear List members,
Warm Greetings!
I had posted one mail earlier about my getting the approval to conduct
research on making Astronomy accessible to the vi children from ICSSR. I
received warm response from our list members. Many expressed their desire to
give their inputs in this project. I am in the process of working out the
strategy for the same. In this process first I have developed some research
instruments to measure the attitude of our vi children toward Science in
general and Astronomy in particular. I also want to measure their curiosity in
Science. It is in this context I am attaching 2 scales with this mail. Please
find some time from your busy schedule and give comment on the statements in
both the tools. Please feel free to be even critical. Your inputs will really
show me a direction. Kindly reply on my personal email: [email protected]
Best Regards.
Dr. Kalpana Kharade
M: 7738607358, Res: 91-22-25148196
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