Pre- and Post-project Questionnaire for Teachers
GK­12: 2004­05

GSF Name:

Date:

Please respond to the following questions as best as you can. This will help us to evaluate the impact of this project on you and on your teaching. Please bring this completed questionnaire with you to our meeting on July 27, or send it by return mail.

1. List five concepts that you feel are essential for students to understand about biodiversity.

    

    

2. While teaching science, what percent of class time do you feel should be spent on the following activities?
    
• Lecturing
   
• Reading to the students
   
• Having your students read
   
• Group discussion
   
• Hands-on activities
   
• Independent projects
   
• Outdoor explorations or field trips
   
• Other (please explain)

   

   

3. Use the scale below to indicate how well you believe high school students are able to
    

	Poor			Very well
a. Make observations	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
b. Pay attention to detail	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
c. Stay on task	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
d. Complete boring and repetitive tasks	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
e. Ask questions	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
f. Make predictions	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
g. Make inferences	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
h. Pose hypotheses	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
i. Reject hypotheses	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

4. a. Reflecting on your knowledge of students, list five field research skills that you feel high school students will be capable of learning or using during the project.

    

    

   b. List five field research skills that you feel your students will have difficulty learning or using during the project.

    

    

5. Describe the nature of science.

    

    

6. In your opinion, in what ways are museum collections useful to society and the study of natural history? (List no more than five.)

    

    

7. What types of field sampling techniques have you used, if any. Please list.

    

    

8. What are the essential components necessary for evolution to occur?

    

    

9. In your opinion, what is the most critical biodiversity issue in California?

    

    

10. Use the scale below to rate your current knowledge on each of the following:
     

a. curatorial methods	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	no knowledge			highly knowledgeable
b. database entry	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	no knowledge			highly knowledgeable
c. database analysis	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	no knowledge			highly knowledgeable
d. field sampling techniques	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	no knowledge			highly knowledgeable
e. phylogenetics	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	no knowledge			highly knowledgeable
f. systematics	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	no knowledge			highly knowledgeable
g. biodiversity issues in California	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	no knowledge			highly knowledgeable
h. flora and fauna of California	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	no knowledge			highly knowledgeable
i. macroevolution	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	no knowledge			highly knowledgeable
j. species concept	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	no knowledge			highly knowledgeable
k. microevolution	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	no knowledge			highly knowledgeable
l. population viability	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	no knowledge			highly knowledgeable

11. Is there anything you want to tell or ask us?