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Student attitudes toward professional practices in science

conference contribution
posted on 2011-01-01, 00:00 authored by Kieran LimKieran Lim
There has been anecdotal evidence that students from various cultures have different perspectives toward professional practices, including (1) how to use quotations, (2) occupational health and safety and (3) recording data, but there has been a lack of hard evidence to either confirm or contradict this belief. This paper presents a snapshot of student attitudes toward professional practices in Australia. The survey group consisted of students enrolled in an undergraduate 1st year, 2nd semester, chemistry subject. Students generally agreed that they should paraphrase and should cite sources of information. However, there was confusion about the use of extensive quotations and occupational health and safety. There was no significant difference in the responses by the country of secondary schooling or family background, but were some significant differences by the respondents’ age, number of years in university and by the discipline area of study.

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Event

Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education (17th : 2011 : Melbourne, Vic)

Pagination

193 - 198

Publisher

The University of Sydney

Location

Melbourne, Vic.

Place of publication

Sydney, N.S.W.

Start date

2011-09-28

End date

2011-09-30

ISBN-13

9780987183408

Language

eng

Notes

Previously known as the UniServe Science Conference

Publication classification

E1 Full written paper - refereed; E Conference publication

Editor/Contributor(s)

M Sharma, A Yeung, T Jenkins, E Johnson, G Rayner, J West

Title of proceedings

ACSME 2011 : Proceedings of the 2011 Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education : Teaching for diversity : challenges & strategies

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