Under-Represented Populations Instruments

Student Surveys

Instrument 4: Exploring Physics Confidence Pre- and Post-Evaluation

Project: Experiment Based Physics for Girls in Elementary and Middle Schools
University of Missouri

Funding Source: NSF: Program for Women and Girls (HRD)

Purpose: To gather information on student's confidence and interest in specific physics activities. This information would be used to make pre/post-project comparisons.

Administered To: Participating Smithton Middle School students

Topics Covered:

• Self-Assessment (Student): confidence, knowledge, skills
• Background Characteristics & Activities (Student): academic interests, interests

Format/Length: 12 questions total. Each survey consists of 6 closed-ended Likert scale questions. Each question is accompanied by an illustration of the physics-related issue that the question addresses.

First and Last Names ______________________________________

For each of the following problems, indicate your confidence in being able to correctly solve it by circling a number on the scale from 1-9, with 9 being very confident. REMEMBER, you do not have to solve these problems; just rate your confidence in being able to solve them.

First and Last Names ______________________________________

For each of the questions, circle the number from 1-9 that indicates how interested you are in the following activities, with 1 being the most interested.

How interested would you be in .....