Evaluación de las actitudes del profesorado respecto a los temas CTS: nuevos avances metodológicos

Abstract

Science teachers' attitudes and beliefs toward Science, Technology, Society (STS) topics are analysed applying new methodological procedures based on the categorization of the Questionnaire of Opinions on STS (QOSTS) statements. The new contributions and improvements allow more accurate and new quantitative and qualitative approaches. The method is flexible and allows the diagnosis of personal specific attitudes, assessing specific STS issues or dimensions (using a set of items), and also inferential statistical procedures to contrast hypothesis. The results confirm, with stronger depth and validity, teachers' faulty training in STS topics. On the other hand, results validate the new methodology and the progress in the evaluation of these topics. Finally, the results claim for a change of the initial and continuous science teacher training, to fulfil the innovative proposals of the STS movement, which inspire the different science educational reforms all over the world.