Students were asked to elaborate on their answers to these questions. Their responses were probed, especially to clarify the repertoire of ideas that they held about science, science learning, and careers in science.

Here are some of the tests and interview questions we used in the course of our research. (Complete documents can be found in .pdf format.)

• Epistemology Test   (.pdf)
• Subject Matter Test   (.pdf)
• Subject Matter Coding Key   (.pdf)
• Interview Questions
  • 8th grade   (.pdf)
  • 10th grade   (.pdf)
  • 12th grade   (.pdf)