Children's Science Curiosity Scale (CSCS)
Measures elementary school children's attitudes towards science in a learning context.
Average Review: 
(3.7)
by anonymous,
Program Director, RALLY, 
This assessment does a good job of covering a range of topics in their questions to broaden an understanding of curiosity about science beyond the academic realm.read entire review ...
by anonymous,
Robotics Project Leader, 4-H of Santa Clara County, Adams Club, 
In my experience of bringing science related, hands-on activities to youth in my project, community outreach events, and classrooms I have seen the excitement on the faces of the youth when they are able to see science in action. In…read entire review ...
by anonymous,
Science Professional Development Teacher, San Joaquin County Office of Education,
The questions asked would be fun for a young person to think about and answer and would help a student realize how much he/she enjoys science. The total questionnaire would give a good picture of how the student felt about…read entire review ...
by anonymous,
Senior Director, Exhibits, Orlando Science Center,
While the majority of the questions about general science were effective ones, a few, such as #'s 7, 10 and 21 asked about feelings for experiences I doubt the student would have had the chance to experience e.g. ' I…read entire review ...
by V. Nelson,
teacher, Charles F. Tigard Elementary School, 
Although we all want students to have positive attitudes towards science, assessing those attitudes among grade five students with a likert scale instrument involves a leap of faith. This is difficult for adults, and very complicated for elementary school children.…read entire review ...
by anonymous,
researcher, ,
The only thing that threw me off about this measure was the sudden switch from general sciencey things approached from a variety of angles to Physics. I'm not sure if Physics was a particular focus for this study, but as…read entire review ...
by Dorothea Pitikas,
, ,
Very clear, concise, would be easy to administer in a classroom. For tracking purposes might be beneficial to have children mark gender to see if attitudes are different. I don't feel that self reports ie the what do you think…read entire review ...