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Astronomy Education Review / Volume 7 / Issue 2 / RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

2008, AER, 7 (2), 18, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/AER2008017

Grade 9 Astronomy Study: Interests of Boys and Girls Studying Astronomy at Fletcher’s Meadow Secondary School

Published 22 October 2008

Mirjan Krstovic

Teacher, Fletcher’s Meadow Secondary School, Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Laura Brown, Merin Chacko, and Brenda Trinh

Senior Student, Fletcher’s Meadow Secondary School

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In this report, we discuss the interests of Grade 9 boys and girls studying astronomy at Fletcher’s Meadow Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario. A total of 152 Grade 9 academic students were asked to rate their interest levels in various astronomy topics on a scale of 0–3, where 0 represented no interest and 3 represented a high level of interest. We also asked the students to rate all the in-class activities on the same scale. Our analysis of the data suggests that there are many similarities in interest levels in various astronomy topics between boys and girls. In addition, boys and girls expressed similar preferences for in-class astronomy activities with only minor differences, suggesting similar learning styles in astronomy for boys and girls at the Grade 9 level.

© 2008 Mirjan Krstovic. Copyright assigned to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.

KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords

7–9 (or middle school), Cooperative group activities, Course curriculum, Hands-on activities, Teaching approaches

PACS

PUBLICATION DATA

ISSN

1539-1515 (online)

Publisher

$abstract.society.value is a Member of CrossRef Mirjan Krstovic. Copyright assigned to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.

ARTICLE DATA

History
Received 14 December 2007
Published online 22 October 2008
Digital Object Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/AER2008017

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  11. See EPAPS supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/AER2008017 for the additional appendix content in PDF format. [EPAPS]


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