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- Title
Using Q methodology to investigate undergraduate students' attitudes toward the geosciences.
- Authors
Young, Julia M.; Shepardson, Daniel P.
- Abstract
Undergraduate students have different attitudes toward the geosciences, but few studies have investigated these attitudes using Q methodology. Q methodology allows the researcher to identify more detailed reasons for students' attitudes toward geology than Likert methodology. Thus this study used Q methodology to investigate the attitudes that 15 undergraduate students had toward the geosciences. Three different groups of undergraduates were sampled: geoscience majors, science majors, and nonscience majors. Three distinct perspectives emerged from the analysis: (1) knowledge-based outlook, (2) class isolated knowledge, and (3) specific geoscientific interests. Even though all students see value and importance in learning geoscience concepts, several students suggested that a better connection of the geosciences to their everyday lives would improve their attitude toward geology.
- Subjects
UNDERGRADUATES; EARTH science students; EARTH science education; PERSPECTIVE (Art); Q technique; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
Science Education, 2018, Vol 102, Issue 1, p195
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.21320