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Chapter n
4 759
5 669
90
6 50
7 243
N secondary schools / university programmes
5 schools 11 schools
several university programmes
14 schools
several university programmes
Grade secondary school or year university
10 & 11 12
Year 1 university
teaching grade 12
Year 1 university
% male
49.5 57.4 39.9
48 32.3
% science coursework in secondary school
54.9 57.4 65.1
34% science teachers
32.3
GPA GPA rst secondary year school university
6.85 NA 6.68 NA 6.81 7.17
NA NA 7.07 6.90
Method
2015 to January 2016. In this sample, females were overrepresented, as the above- mentioned degree programmes are more popular among women.
2.1.2 Teachers
Chapter 6 was a qualitative study that focused on secondary school teachers. A 2 total number of 50 teachers were interviewed in the last four months of 2015 and
in February, March, and April 2016. is was a sample of convenience, as many
teachers were employed at the schools where we already had collected the student
data.
Table 2.1 Sample characteristics
20 13 20 14 20 15
20 14 20 15 20 16
Ch. 6: teachers
Ch. 7: first year university
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Ch. 4: grades 10 & 11 Ch. 5: grade 12
Ch. 5: first year university
Figure 2.1 Timeline of data collection per school year (September – August)
2.2 Instruments
We used several existing instruments to measure the constructs of interest and developed new questionnaires. Because our systematic review (Chapter 3) showed
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