Children's Ideas in Science

The agreed activities and deadlines

At the Study Meeting in Spain (2 - 5 October 1997) the project members of Spain, England, Ireland, Danmark and Germany agreed to carry out the following steps:

No.
Step
Date
1Profiles of student groups
    Each project group provides a profile, which should include a group photo and the names and hobbies / interests of the students. These profiles to be published on the internet via these Project Pages
 -30th Nov.97
2Issue the survey
    The agreed questionnaire is translated into the appropriate language and issued to three groups:
    • younger students (about 12 years)
    • second level students
    • adults (e.g. teachers or parents)
-31st Jan.98
3Analysis of questionnaires
    To analyse the questionnaires, categories of answers will need to be decided and then applied to the questionnaires returned. Many of the questions can not be answered by simple "Yes" or "No", so the project group will need to carry out a preliminary analysis of questionnaires in order to devise suitable categories of answers for the final evaluation of the responses
-15th Mar.98
4Exchange of categories
    The categories should have now been distributed to, and compared with, all other participating groups. The project teachers agree (by e-mail) a final list of categories to be used by all groups.
-15th Apr.98
5Presentation and evaluation
    All results should be presentated at the network conference in Gladenbach / Germany 2. - 6. May 1998. Subsequently, the results will be published via this Project Page and, perhaps, by individual participating schools on their own internet / intranet pages.
-6th May 98