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Programme for International Student Assessment 2006

Argentina, Australia, Austria...and 54 more, 2006
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WLD_2006_PISA_v01_M
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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Developing science skills Q26 (SC26Q01)

Data file: INT_Sch06_Dec07

Overview

Valid: 14365
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 245
End: 245
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
To what extent do you feel that teachers in your school concentrate on developing in students the skills and knowledge that will help them progress towards sciencerelated careers?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Incidental 3376
23.5%
2 Integrated 7427
51.7%
3 Focal 2603
18.1%
7 N/A 597
4.2%
8 Invalid 68
0.5%
9 Missing 294
2%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
Science-related career has been used here to include careers that involve a considerable amount of science but are beyond the traditional idea of a scientist as someone who works in a laboratory or academic environment (like a nuclear physicist). As such, a science-related career is not only one in physics, chemistry or biology. Any career that involves tertiary education in a scientific field is considered science-related. Therefore careers like engineer (involving physics), weather forecaster (involving earth science), optician (involving biology and physics), and medical doctors (involving the medical sciences) are all examples of sciencerelated careers.
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