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The Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (CLASS) for Use in Biology

Katharine Semsar

*Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309;

†Science Education Initiative, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309;

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Jennifer K. Knight

†Science Education Initiative, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309;

‡Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309;

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§Biology Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Canada;

‖Science Centre for Learning and Teaching, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada

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Michelle K. Smith

†Science Education Initiative, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309;

‡Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309;

¶Present address: School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orno, ME 04496

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Diane K. O'Dowd, Monitoring Editor

Published Online:13 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.10-10-0133

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Vol. 10, No. 3

September 01, 2011

231-327

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History

Submitted: 25 October 2010

Revised: 21 April 2011

Accepted: 17 May 2011

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© 2011 K. Semsar et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2011 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

We thank Wendy Adams, Katherine Perkins, and Matthew McQueen for help with the statistical analysis; Marjorie Frankel and Angela Jardine for their help managing the online survey and summarizing data; and Tamara Kelly and Semira Kassahun with help conducting student interviews.

We thank all CU and UBC faculty who participated in the CLASS-Bio development working groups and all who provided expert opinions on instrument statements. We are very grateful to the 14 faculty teaching biology courses who administered the survey to their students, especially William Adams and Barbara Demmig-Adams.

This project was funded by CU and UBC through the institutions’ Science Education Initiative (SEI) and Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (CWSEI), respectively.