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Is science education relevant?
results from the ROSE-project
Henrik Busch Department of Curriculum
Research The Danish University of Education
Journeé de reflexion, EPS Bern, Switzerland July
8th 2005
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agenda

• challenges
• the rose project
• some international results
• what is wrong?

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challenges
recruitment
science for citizenship
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the rose-project/key elements

• rose relevance of science education
• interests, relevance, attitudes towards ST
• learners perspective
• 40 participating countries
• initiative svein sjøberg camilla schreiner, uio

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the rose-project/relevance

• relevance
• valuable and useful to people in their lives and
  work
• questions
• the relevance of science and science education
• valuable to whom?
• which aspects?
• which contexts?

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the rose-project/instrument

• quantitative
• 4-point Likert scale
• based on earlier project (SAS) pilot
• multicultural/national working group
• 250 items in the international version
• Little (no) methodological discussion today

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the rose-project/instrument
A. What I want to learn about How interested are
you in learning about the following?
Agree Disagree 1. Stars, planets
and the universe ? ? ? ? 2. Chemicals, their
properties and how ? ? ? ? 3. The inside of the
earth ? ? ? ? 4. How mountains, rivers and
? ? ? ?
4-point Likert scale
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the rose-project/instrument
A. What I want to learn about How interested are
you in learning about the following?
Agree Disagree 1. Stars, planets
and the universe ? ? ? ? 2. Chemicals, their
properties and how ? ? ? ? 3. The inside of the
earth ? ? ? ? 4. How mountains, rivers and
? ? ? ?
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4-point Likert scale
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the rose-project/instrument
Item groups ACE What I want to learn about
(108) F My science classes (16) G My opinions
about science and technology (16)
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the rose project/analysis/
Analysis of data Disagree ? 1 Low Disagree
? 2 Low Agree ? 3 Agree ? 4 ? Mean
values and single item frequencies
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/some international results

• All countries
• The relevant (?) science education

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some international results/all countries

• correlation with HDI
• gender differences

Boys
Girls
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some international results/all countries
Boys
Girls
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some international results/all countries

• general agreement
• boys tend to agree more

Boys
Girls
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/everyday life perspeective
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/future and career
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/future and career
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/STS-perspective
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/content/top10 for girls
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/content/top10 for boys
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summing up

• more wealth less interest in pursuing st careers
• relevance
• everyday perspective so, so
• future and career not really (gender!)
• science and technology yes!
• content? gender!
• Science is important but not for me!

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what is wrong?

• with young people?
• with science education?
• with scientists?