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WP9 plays an essential role in assuring the scientific and technical quality of the project. Furthermore, WP9 aims to provide knowledge and tools that will be useful to science teachers and teacher educators in the formative assessment of practice, including the perspective of students in science classrooms. In order to accomplish the objectives of WP9, national and international instruments with regard to student, teacher and teacher educator's perspectives on science teaching will be reviewed. Priority will be given to existing instruments such as PISA 2006 which was focused on science. With instruments from PISA 2006 it will be possible to assess pupil attitudes and interest with regard to science, scientific literacy and science teaching practices and innovative methods. Furthermore, PISA 2006 offers the possibility to compare S-TEAM activities against the baseline of each country. International instruments from PISA 2006 will be complemented by national instruments and instrument targeting specific foci of S-TEAM. Questionnaire instruments will be combined with video based documentation of innovative methods in science education
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WP9a: Formative instruments for pupil and teacher views on science education WP9a (UnivStrath) will collaborate on the dissemination of formative instruments for pupil and teacher views on innovative methods in science. (product 9.5)