{"pk":26336,"title":"Measuring Interest in Science: The Science Curiosity Scale","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In the current study, we present the methods for creating andvalidating a science curiosity scale. We find that the scalepresented here is unidimensional and highly reliable.Moreover, it predicts engagement with a science documentaryclip more accurately than do measures of science intelligenceor education. Although more steps are needed, this providesinitial evidence for the utility of our measure of sciencecuriosity.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"curiosity; science curiosity; scale; psychometrics;Item Response Theory"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2q17w8gk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Asheley","middle_name":"","last_name":"Landrum","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""},{"first_name":"Joseph","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hilgard","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""},{"first_name":"Heather","middle_name":"","last_name":"Akin","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""},{"first_name":"Nan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Li","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""},{"first_name":"Dan","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Kahan","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania , Yale University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26336/galley/15972/download/"}]}