Research Tools

In this research we intend to trace the trajectory of teachers' professional development over the 5 years of the project. To provide for this description, we will use a mixture of quantitative and qualitative tools along a number of constructs. We are providing those tools here as well as others that we've strongly considered in an effort to streamline the work of other researchers.

Construct	Instrument	Literature
Affective Measures
	Science Teacher Pedagogical Discontentment	Southerland, et al., 2006
	Science Teachers' Self-Efficacy (STEBI-B)	Riggs & Enochs, 1990
	Revised STEBI-B	Bleicher, 2004
	Test of Science Related Attitudes (TOSRA)	Fraser, 1981
	Views about Science Survey (VASS)	Halloun, 2001
	The Context Belief about Science Teaching (CBAST)	Lumpe et al., 2000
	Scientific Attitude Inventory (SAI_II)	Moore & Foy, 1997
	Teaching Science as Inquiry (TSI)	Dira-Smolleck, 2004
	Thinking about Science Survey Instrument (TSSI)	Cobern, 2002
	Views of Nature of Science Instruments (VNOS) VNOS-A,VNOS-B, VNOS-C, VNOS-D, VNOS-E	Lederman and O'Malley, 1990/ Abd-El-Khalick et al., 1998, Bell et al, 2000/ Abd-El-Khalick, 1998, Lederman et al., 2001
	Views of Science Instruments (VOSI) VOSI-E, VOSI-P, VOSI-S, VOSI-4	Schwartz, 2004/ Schwartz et al, 2001/ Lederman & Ko, 2003 Schwartz, Lederman, Lederman, 2008
	Beliefs about Reformed Science Teaching and Learning (BARSTL)	Sampson & Banton, 2006
Conceptions/belief Measures
	Science Teaching Orientation Card Sort E S	Friedrichsen & Dana, 2003
	Salish Inventory: SIDESTEP, TPPI and STAM Instruments in Appendices B, C & D	Brown, 2002
	Salish Inventory	Luft, 2005
	Submission of Inquiry Teaching Lesson
	STIR Analysis of Lesson and Interview with Teachers	Beerer & Bodzin, 2003/2004
	STIR and Inquiry Lesson Interview Protocol
	Views of Science and Education Questionnaire	Chen, 2006
	Teacher Belief Inventory	Luft & Roehrig, 2007
Teaching Observation Protocols
	RTOP FORM	RTOP Vid1, Expert Score1 Vid2, Expert Score2 Vid3, Expert Score3
	OTOP	Wainwright,Flick, & Morrell, P. ,Fall 2003
	RET Observation Rubric
	Portrait of the Learner
Description of School Sites
	Survey for Enacted Curriculum for K-8
	Survey for Enacted Curriculum for High School
Description of Teaching Practice
	Unit Planning Lesson Plan Rubric

 

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