The results from the pre-instruction demographic questions follow below. Only matched-pair results are shown, for students who were eventually able to take the post-instruction D-Survey in the last week of instruction.
Cuesta College
Demographic Survey (D-Survey)
Pre-instruction question results
Astronomy 210L Spring Semester 2009 sections 30674, 30676
(N = 107, matched pairs only,
excluding negative informed consent form responses)
1. What is your gender?
(A) Female. [40]
(B) Male. [67]
2. What is your age?
(A) 0-20 years old. [74]
(B) 21-23 years old. [23]
(C) 24-30 years old. [ 8]
(D) 31 or older. [ 2]
(E) Decline to answer. [ 0]
3. What is your college major (or current area of interest if
undecided)?
(A) Business. [18]
(B) Education. [15]
(C) Humanities, Social Sciences, or the Arts. [20]
(D) Science, Engineering, or Architecture. [10]
(E) Other. [43]
4. Have you previously taken an astronomy course?
(A) Yes. [ 8]
(B) No. [99]
5. Are you currently taking astronomy lab during this semester?
(A) Yes. [34]
(B) No. [73]
6. How many college science courses are you taking during this
semester other than astronomy lecture or astronomy lab?
(A) None. [77]
(B) 1. [14]
(C) 2. [ 8]
(D) 3. [ 5]
(E) 4+. [ 3]
7. Which of these college math classes are you taking during this
semester? Choose as many classes that apply.
(A) Algebra. [22]
(B) Trigonometry. [ 6]
(C) Geometry. [ 3]
(D) Pre-calculus. [ 8]
(E) Calculus. [ 3]
(F) Statistics. [ 9]
8. How good at math are you?
(A) Very poor. [ 3]
(B) Poor. [ 8]
(C) Average. [53]
(D) Good. [28]
(E) Very good. [15]
9. How good at science are you?
(A) Very poor. [ 0]
(B) Poor. [ 2]
(C) Average. [64]
(D) Good. [32]
(E) Very good. [ 9]
10. Which best describes the level of difficulty you expect from
this course?
(A) Extremely difficult for me. [ 2]
(B) Difficult for me. [26]
(C) Unsure. [58]
(D) Easy for me. [19]
(E) Very easy for me. [ 2]
11. How many college science courses have you completed prior to
taking this course?
(A) None. [67]
(B) 1. [17]
(C) 2. [16]
(D) 3. [ 1]
(E) 4+. [ 5]
12. Which of these college math classes have you completed
prior to taking this course? Choose as many classes that apply.
(A) Algebra. [77]
(B) Trigonometry. [19]
(C) Geometry. [21]
(D) Pre-calculus. [29]
(E) Calculus. [15]
(F) Statistics. [18]
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Cuesta College
Demographic Survey (D-Survey)
Post-instruction question results
Astronomy 210L Spring Semester 2009 sections 30674, 30676
(N = 107, matched pairs only,
excluding negative informed consent form responses)
8. How good at math are you?
(A) Very poor. [ 5]
(B) Poor. [ 9]
(C) Average. [46]
(D) Good. [34]
(E) Very good. [13]
Pre-instruction: 3.4 +/- 0.9
Post-instruction: 3.4 +/- 1.0
Student t-test p = 0.83 (t = 0.217, sd = 0.945, dof = 212)
Class-wise <g> = 0
9. How good at science are you?
(A) Very poor. [ 0]
(B) Poor. [ 8]
(C) Average. [50]
(D) Good. [44]
(E) Very good. [ 5]
Pre-instruction: 3.5 +/- 0.7
Post-instruction: 3.4 +/- 0.8
Student t-test p = 0.84 (t = 0.198, sd = 0.689, dof = 212)
Class-wise <g> = -0.01
10. Which best describes the level of difficulty you experienced
from this course?
(A) Extremely difficult for me. [ 2]
(B) Difficult for me. [44]
(C) Unsure. [22]
(D) Easy for me. [32]
(E) Very easy for me. [ 7]
Pre-instruction: 2.9 +/- 0.8
Post-instruction: 3.0 +/- 1.0
Student t-test p = 0.71 (t = -0.379, sd = 0.902, dof = 212)
Class-wise <g> = 0.02
11. How many college science courses do you expect to take after
taking this course?
(A) None. [24]
(B) 1. [33]
(C) 2. [30]
(D) 3. [ 7]
(E) 4+. [13]
12. Which of these college math classes do you expect to take
after taking this course? Choose as many classes that apply.
(A) Algebra. [16]
(B) Trigonometry. [16]
(C) Geometry. [11]
(D) Pre-calculus. [19]
(E) Calculus. [26]
(F) Statistics. [28]
13. Are you planning on taking astronomy lab sometime after this semester?
(A) Yes. [ 9]
(B) No. [70]
(C) Undecided/maybe. [28]
No significant shifts nor differences in student attitudes in self-efficacy attitudes towards math and science. However, while the perceived difficulty of the course did not change, the distribution of responses widened.
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