Cardinal Workforce Developers, LLC

Ruther Glen, Virginia

 

Evaluation Contractor for

 

Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center

ATEEC

 

Student Survey – Subject: Climate Change

 

Survey Completion Date: ____________________

 

To the student:  Your participation in this survey is very much appreciated as a contribution toward evaluating units designed by ATEEC and its partners to provide information and instruction about topics relevant to climate change.  Your participation in this survey is voluntary and does not contribute in any way to your grade for the course in which you studied climate change topics.

 

There are no right or expected answers to this survey.  Your perceptions expressed through the survey provide no reflections on your grades, the instructor, or the institution. 

 

Your responses to the survey will be kept fully confidential.  Your instructor is expected to maintain confidentiality of your responses locally and all student responses will be handled to avoid any identification of student, instructor, or institution by anyone other than the evaluator who receives the survey.

 

Thank you.

 

Kenneth Chapman

for Cardinal Workforce Developers, LLC

 

Student information:

 

Name: _________________________________________________________-

 

Course containing Climate Change components taken at:_________________________

                                                                                                 High School/College Name

 

Course Title (all questions below relate only to this course): ____________________________

 

Instructor Name:  ญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญ_____________________________________________________

 

As a student, are you       Full-time or Part-time?

                                            (Please, circle one response)

 

Are you employed             Full-time or Part-time?
                                            (Please, circle one response)

 

 

What is your age? ______

 

How many environmental courses have you taken before this one? _________

 

Have you studied Climate Change before taking this course?  Yes     No

                                                                                             Please, circle one response

 

Is the course intended to (please circle all relevant responses):

  1. Satisfy general education requirements of the high school/college?
  2. Be transferred to a 4-year college program?
  3. If in high school, will be used for college credit?
  4. Be used to provide specific knowledge and skills for future employment in an environmental career?
  5. Other? ______________________________________________________

 

General information and perceptions about the course and the Climate Change component:

 

The course is for  __________  semester or quarter hours of college credit.

 

The Climate Change component addressed _________ days of classroom contact from beginning to end (including external assignment coverage).

 

Please circle a numerical value to indicate your agreement with the following statements as compared to your perspectives before taking this course:

 

                                                                                                       Do not                   Fully

                                                                                                      Agree     Neutral   Agree

Climate change is more important than I previously thought.            1      2     3     4     5

 

I can better assess arguments about climate change.                                     1      2     3     4     5

 

Human actions have a measurable impact on climate change.             1      2     3     4     5

 

Everyone should study Climate Change at some time in

their school career.                                                                          1      2     3     4     5

 

Government rules/regulations/actions have a major impact                1      2     3     4     5

on Climate Change.

 

Some individual corporations can have a major impact on                    1      2     3     4     5
Climate Change.

 

Collectively, individual lifestyles can have a major impact
on Climate Change.                                                                                    1      2     3     4     5

 

My personal future decisions will consider possible
impacts on Climate Change.                                                                        1      2     3     4     5

I understand many of the science and technology issues that
are pertinent to Climate Change.                                                            1      2     3     4     5

I have an increased desire to undertake additional academic
work relevant to understanding Climate Change issues.             1      2     3     4     5

 

It was important that the Climate Change components were based            1      2     3     4     5

on very recent research.

 

Perspectives about details of Climate Change presented in the course:

 

Any combination of four possible units may have been addressed by Climate Change in your course. .

 

Please check the units that were addressed in this course.

___ a. Fundamentals of Climate Change science
___ b.
Interpreting Climate Change data

___ c. Climate Change and its potential impact on society

___ d. Actions in response to Climate Change

 

Please check any units you used/studied directly from the ATEEC CD-ROM.

___ a. Fundamentals of Climate Change science
___ b.
Interpreting Climate Change data

___ c. Climate Change and its potential impact on society

___ d. Actions in response to Climate Change

 

Please rank (1 highest; 4 lowest) the units by their emphasis in the course.

___ a. Fundamentals of Climate Change science
___ b.
Interpreting Climate Change data

___ c. Climate Change and its potential impact on society

___ d. Actions in response to Climate Change

 

Please rank (1 highest; 4 lowest) the units by their value to you in understanding Climate Change issues.

___ a. Fundamentals of Climate Change science
___ b.
Interpreting Climate Change data

___ c. Climate Change and its potential impact on society

___ d. Actions in response to Climate Change

 

Please rank (1 highest; 4 lowest) the units by their value to you in learning the science and technology needed to understand Climate Change issues.

___ a. Fundamentals of Climate Change science
___ b.
Interpreting Climate Change data

___ c. Climate Change and its potential impact on society

___ d. Actions in response to Climate Change

 

If you used the CD-ROM, did you use   None   Few   Several   Many   of the Internet
                                                              (             Circle one response            )
links provided?

 

If you used the CD-ROM, which was most useful

                          – the CD-ROM presentations  or   the Internet links?
                              (                         Circle one response                               )

 

The information/instruction presented on the CD-ROM was assembled from recently completed or ongoing research.

 

Do you feel that your instructor should have such material available?   Yes   No

 

Would it make any difference to you that the information may have been 5-10 years old – the time usually required for such material to be incorporated into textbooks?   Yes   No

 


Please make any comments you deem appropriate to the climate change unit in this course and the ATEEC CD-ROM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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