Ángel Vázquez Alonso|María Antônia Manassero Mas|José?Antonio Acevedo?Díaz
An analysis of complex multiple?choice science–technology–society items: Methodological development and preliminary results
Universitat de les Illes Balears|Universitat de les Illes Balears|Junta de Andalucía|Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León
abstract scarce attention assessment evaluation science education research especially harmful teaching sciencetechnologysociety sts issues due dialectical tentative valueladen polemic nature sts topics paper tackles methodological difficulties instruments monitor views related sts topics rationalizes quantitative methodology analysis technique improve utility empirically developed multiplechoice item pool questionnaire opinions sts methodology embraces itemscaling psychometrics based judgments panel experts multiple response model scoring system data analysis methodology finally produces normalized attitudinal indices represent respondents reasoned beliefs toward sts statements respondents position item comprises several statements respondents position entire sts topic encompasses set items preliminary results show methodologys ability evaluate sts attitudes qualitative quantitative way statistical hypothesis testing lastly applications teacher training sts curriculum development science classrooms discussed 2006 wiley periodicals inc sci ed 90 681706 2006