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CLASS
(Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey)
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Introduction
Here are a number of statements that may or may not describe your beliefs about learning biology. You are asked to rate each statement by selecting a number between 1 and 5 where the numbers mean the following:
- Strongly Disagree
- Disagree
- Neutral
- Agree
- 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.
We are asking that you express your own beliefs. Your answers will not affect
your grade. Your instructor
will never see your individual answers, only whether you participated and
the class results as a whole. This information will be very helpful to us in an effort to design more effective biology courses.
Survey (8-10 minutes)
- My curiosity about the living world led me to study biology.
- I think about the biology I experience in everyday life.
- After I study a topic in biology and feel that I understand it, I have difficulty applying that information to answer questions on the same topic.
- Knowledge in biology consists of many disconnected topics.
- When I am answering a biology question, I find it difficult to put what I know into my own words.
- I do not expect the rules of biological principles to help my understanding of the ideas.
- To understand biology, I sometimes think about my personal experiences and relate them to the topic being analyzed.
- If I get stuck on answering a biology question on my first try, I usually try to figure out a different way that works.
- I want to study biology because I want to make a contribution to society.
- If I don�t remember a particular approach needed for a question on an exam, there�s nothing much I can do (legally!) to come up with it.
- If I want to apply a method or idea used for understanding one biological problem to another problem, the problems must involve very similar situations.
- I enjoy figuring out answers to biology questions.
- It is important for the government to approve new scientific ideas before they can be widely accepted.
- Learning biology changes my ideas about how the natural world works.
- To learn biology, I only need to memorize facts and definitions.
- Reasoning skills used to understand biology can be helpful to my everyday life.
- It is a valuable use of my time to study the fundamental experiments behind biological ideas.
- If I had plenty of time, I would take a biology class outside of my major requirements just for fun.
- The subject of biology has little relation to what I experience in the real world.
- There are times I think about or solve a biology question in more than one way to help my understanding.
- If I get stuck on a biology question, there is no chance I'll figure it out on my own.
- When studying biology, I relate the important information to what I already know rather than just memorizing it the way it is presented.
- There is usually only one correct approach to solving a biology problem.
- When I am not pressed for time, I will continue to work on a biology problem until I understand why something works the way it does.
- Learning biology that is not directly relevant to or applicable to human health is not worth my time.
- Mathematical skills are important for understanding biology.
- I enjoy explaining biological ideas that I learn about to my friends.
- Please answer agree (not strongly agree) to this question.
- The general public misunderstands many biological ideas.
- I do not spend more than a few minutes stuck on a biology question before giving up or seeking help from someone else.
- Biological principles are just to be memorized.
- For me, biology is primarily about learning known facts as opposed to investigating the unknown.