Summary information

Study title

Study on interest in particle physics (OA edition)

Creator

Zoechling, Sarah (University of Vienna; CERN)
Hopf, Martin (University of Vienna)
Woithe, Julia (CERN)
Schmeling, Sascha (CERN)

Study number / PID

doi:10.11587/OUDFJK (DOI)

Data access

Information not available

Series

Not available

Abstract

Full edition for public use (open access). This study developed an instrument to measure students’ interest in particle physics (IPPI). We validated the IPPI in a field test on a sample comprising 99 German-speaking 9th grade students.

Methodology

Data collection period

15/06/2020 - 06/07/2020

Country

Austria, Germany

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

One class each from Vienna (AT), Graz (AT), and a city close to Munich (DE) as well as individual students from three schools in Tyrol (federal state in AT) completed our online questionnaire. In all, 99 German-speaking 9th grade (aged 15 years) students (57 female, 41 male, 1 not specified) participated in the study.

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Availability

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based

Funding information

Funder

n/a

Grant number

n/a

Access

Publisher

The Austrian Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2022

Terms of data access

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