Children's perceptions of school science

By C. Murphy, Jim Beggs. 2003

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Girls in the physics classroom: a review of the research on the participation of girls in physics (2006, background): “…such as that of Northern Ireland students, which have compared attitudes towards science for different age groups (e.g. students aged 8–9 and aged 10–11 in primary schools (N 1000)), reveal that a decline in interest in science is already evident among the older students (Murphy and Beggs 2003).”
Developing a Scale to Measure Students’ Attitudes toward Chemistry Lessons (2009, background): “Although most science researchers (e.g., Dhindsa & Chung, 1999; Murphy, Ambusaidi, & Beggs, 2006; Murphy & Beggs, 2003; Parkinson et al., 1998) included items on this dimension in their attitude instruments, none of the 10 items in the Enjoyment of Science Lessons scale in the TOSRA measure…”
Effects of Inquiry-Based Science Instruction on Science Achievement and Interest in Science: Evidence from Qatar (2012, background): “…university levels have been reported in several OECD countries, such as Australia (Dekkers & De Laeter, 2001; Goodrum, Hackling, & Rennie, 2001), Canada (Statistics Canada, 2009), France (Lyons, 2006), Germany (Haas, 2005), United Kingdom (Murphy & Beggs, 2003), and the United States (Lyons, 2006).”