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(Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey)

 

 
 

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Introduction

Here are a number of statements which may or may not describe your beliefs about learning chemistry. You are asked to rate each statement by selecting a number between 1 and 5 where the numbers mean the following:

  1. Strongly Disagree
  2. Disagree
  3. Neutral
  4. Agree
  5. Strongly Agree

Choose one of the above five choices that best expresses your feeling about the statement. If you don't understand a statement, leave it blank. If you have no strong opinion, choose 3.

Survey
  1. A significant problem when learning chemistry is being able to memorize all the information I need to know.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  2. When I am solving a chemistry problem, I try to decide what would be a reasonable value for the answer.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  3. I think about the chemistry I experience in everyday life.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  4. It is useful for me to do lots and lots of problems when learning chemistry.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  5. After I study a topic in chemistry and feel that I understand it, I have difficulty solving problems on the same topic.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  6. Knowledge in chemistry consists of many disconnected topics.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  7. As scientists learn more, many scientific ideas we use today are likely to be proven wrong.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  8. When I solve a chemistry problem, I locate an equation that uses the variables given in the problem and plug in the values.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  9. I find that reading the text in detail is a good way for me to learn chemistry.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  10. There is usually only one correct approach to solving a chemistry problem.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  11. I am not satisfied until I understand why something works the way it does.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  12. I cannot learn chemistry if the teacher does not explain things well in class.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  13. I do not expect chemistry equations to help my understanding of the ideas; they are just for doing calculations.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  14. I study chemistry to learn knowledge that will be useful in my life outside of school.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  15. If I get stuck on a chemistry problem my first try, I usually try to figure out a different way that works.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  16. Nearly everyone is capable of understanding chemistry if they work at it.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  17. Understanding chemistry basically means being able to recall something you've read or been shown.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  18. There could be two different correct answers to a chemistry problem if I used two different approaches.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  19. To understand chemistry I discuss it with friends and other students.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  20. I do not spend more than five minutes stuck on a chemistry problem before giving up or seeking help from someone else.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  21. If I don't remember a particular equation needed to solve a problem on an exam, there's nothing much I can do (legally!) to come up with it.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  22. If I want to apply a method used for solving one chemistry problem to another problem, the problems must involve very similar situations.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  23. In doing a chemistry problem, if my calculation gives a result very different from what I'd expect, I'd trust the calculation rather than going back through the problem.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  24. In chemistry, it is important for me to make sense out of formulas before I can use them correctly.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  25. I enjoy solving chemistry problems.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  26. In chemistry, mathematical formulas express meaningful relationships among measurable quantities.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  27. It is important for the government to approve new scientific ideas before they can be widely accepted.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  28. Learning chemistry changes my ideas about how the world works.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  29. To learn chemistry, I only need to memorize solutions to sample problems.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  30. Reasoning skills used to understand chemistry can be helpful to me in my everyday life.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  31. We use this statement to discard the survey of people who are not reading the questions. Please select agree (not strongly agree) for this question to preserve your answers.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  32. Spending a lot of time understanding where formulas come from is a waste of time.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  33. I find carefully analyzing only a few problems in detail is a good way for me to learn chemistry.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  34. I can usually figure out a way to solve chemistry problems.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  35. The subject of chemistry has little relation to what I experience in the real world.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  36. There are times I solve a chemistry problem more than one way to help my understanding.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  37. To understand chemistry, I sometimes think about my personal experiences and relate them to the topic being analyzed.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  38. It is possible to explain chemistry ideas without mathematical formulas.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  39. When I solve a chemistry problem, I explicitly think about which chemistry ideas apply to the problem.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  40. If I get stuck on a chemistry problem, there is no chance I'll figure it out on my own.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  41. It is possible for chemists to carefully perform the same experiment and get two very different results that are both correct.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  42. When studying chemistry, I relate the important information to what I already know rather than just memorizing it the way it is presented.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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