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Development and Field Test of the Modified Draw-a-Scientist Test and the Draw-a-Scientist Rubric
- Donna Farland-Smith
- Education
- 1 February 2012
Even long before children are able to verbalize which careers may be interesting to them, they collect and store ideas about scientists. For these reasons, asking children to draw a scientist has…
Exploring Middle School Girls’ Science Identities: Examining Attitudes and Perceptions of Scientists when Working “Side-by-Side” with Scientists
- Donna Farland-Smith
- Education
- 1 November 2009
This article is the culmination of an extensive inquiry-focused interactive experience involving female middle school students and five university scientists, which demonstrated that middle school…
How does culture shape students’ perceptions of scientists? Cross-national comparative study of American and Chinese elementary students
- Donna Farland-Smith
- Education
- 1 September 2009
For decades, researchers have been convinced that one stereotypic image of scientists existed among children worldwide (Chambers, 1983; Chiang & Guo, 1996; Fung, 2002; Maoldomhnaigh & Hunt, 1988;…
Personal and Social Interactions Between Young Girls and Scientists: Examining Critical Aspects for Identity Construction
- Donna Farland-Smith
- Education
- 16 February 2012
At a 5-day summer camp designed for middle-school girls (N = 50), fifth through ninth-grade students were able to identify with individual scientists and learn more about the science field. Data from…
An Investigation of Media Influences on Elementary Students Representations of Scientists
- Donna Farland-Smith, Kevin D. Finson, W. Boone, M. Yale
- Education
- 30 April 2014
Even long before children are able to verbalize which careers may be interesting to them, they collect and store ideas about scientists. For these reasons, asking children to Draw-A-Scientist has…
How Scientists are Portrayed in NSTA Recommends Books
- Kevin D. Finson, Donna Farland-Smith, Cecile M. Arquette
- Education
- 15 February 2018
If you use trade books or picture books in your science teaching, how do you choose which books to use with your students? How important is that decision? Do you rely on someone else to evaluate the…
My Daughter the Scientist? Mothers’ Perceptions of the Shift in Their Daughter’s Personal Science Identities
- Donna Farland-Smith
- Education
- 7 January 2016
This study reports on the perspective of mothers whose daughters underwent an extensive inquiry-focused interactive one-week science camp, which involved female middle school students and university…
The Evolution of the Analysis of the Draw-a-Scientist Test
- Donna Farland-Smith
- Education, Physics
- 2017
Asking students to “draw a picture of a scientist” has been a popular method for those wishing to engage in Draw-A-Scientist Test research (Chambers, 1983; Chiang & Guo, 1996; Fung, 2002;…
Eighth Grade Students Conceptions of How Engineers Use Math and Science in the Field of Engineering: A Comparison of Two Cohorts.
- Donna Farland-Smith, V. Tiarani
- Education
- 5 September 2016
Over the last fifteen years, engineering has made its way into science curriculum at all levels, elementary, middle, and high school. A need to analyze students’ perception the field of engineering…
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