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Introductory Astronomy Survey - Winter 2023

This survey will take up to 10 minutes to complete. There are no right or wrong answers to the survey, just your own honest opinions.

The purpose of the study is to understand the perceptions of students taking an introductory level Astronomy course. Information gathered during this study will be written up as a scientific journal article and will be used to inform course design in the future. People participating in this study must be undergraduate students enrolled in Astronomy 1F03 at McMaster University in the Winter 2023 academic term. People participating in this study must be undergraduate students at McMaster University for the Winter 2023 academic term.

The survey is completely anonymous, although we will ask you to generate your own “confidential ID code” so that we can match your survey data to any future Physics studies that you may participate in. All of your responses will remain confidential, and you will never be personally linked to your answers in any way. You can withdraw from this survey at any time before clicking on the “submit” button, simply by clicking on the "Exit and Clear Survey" button in the upper righthand corner of the survey screen. Please read the Letter of Information posted on your course page on Avenue to Learn for more details.

After completing and submitting this survey, you may screenshot the “thank you” screen and upload it to Crowdmark to receive a bonus 0.5% in the course.

This study is being conducted by Dr. Miranda Schmidt, Dr. Robert Cockcroft, and Dr. Pat Clancy of the McMaster University Physics and Astronomy Department. If you still have questions or need to ask anything about this questionnaire, please contact us

(schmim10@mcmaster.ca, cockcroft@mcmaster.ca, clancyp@mcmaster.ca). Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback!

This study has been reviewed and cleared by the McMaster Research Ethics Board (MREB#5179).

If you have any concerns or questions about your rights as a participant or about the way the study is being conducted, please contact:

McMaster Research Ethics Board Secretariat

Telephone 1-(905) 525-9140 ext. 23142

E-mail: ethicsoffice@mcmaster.ca

There are 30 questions in this survey.

This survey is anonymous.

The record of your survey responses does not contain any identifying information about you, unless a specific survey question explicitly asked for it.

If you used an identifying access code to access this survey, please rest assured that this code will not be stored together with your responses. It is managed in a separate database and will only be updated to indicate whether you did (or did not) complete this survey. There is no way of matching identification access codes with survey responses.