Producing an educated, informed public is an important goal for colleges and universities.  To this end, we have embarked upon developing a program to incorporate research-inspired experiments into the general chemistry laboratory, in hopes of increasing students' awareness of research and shifting their attitudes toward research in a positive direction.  Numerous survey instruments exist to assess individuals' perceptions of science in general and of individual fields such as chemistry.  However, this vast library of instruments does not include a valid, reliable survey to measure individuals' perceptions of and attitudes toward scientific research; thus, an instrument is needed to fill this void.  Pilot testing of the early draft of our instrument revealed it to be invalid; this presentation will describe efforts to revise and refine the survey.

Design and testing of a survey instrument to assess students' perceptions of and attitudes toward scientific research

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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