Table 3.
Pre and post outcomes for exploratory research questions.
| Pretest | Posttest | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome | Group | N | Mean | SD | N | Mean | SD |
| Interest | BAU | 24 | 4.58 | 0.97 | 23 | 4.43 | 1.20 |
| SIWI | 26 | 4.46 | 1.14 | 25 | 5.24 | 0.72 | |
| Attitude | BAU | 23 | 4.52 | 1.01 | 23 | 4.36 | 0.92 |
| SIWI | 26 | 4.31 | 0.90 | 24 | 4.37 | 1.03 | |
| Epistemological Beliefs | |||||||
| Effort | BAU | 24 | 4.70 | 0.72 | 23 | 4.60 | 0.68 |
| SIWI | 26 | 4.49 | 0.76 | 25 | 4.84 | 0.68 | |
| Innate | BAU | 24 | 2.24 | 0.84 | 23 | 2.18 | 0.63 |
| SIWI | 26 | 2.12 | 0.59 | 25 | 2.37 | 0.67 | |
| Expert | BAU | 24 | 3.74 | 0.65 | 23 | 3.48 | 0.55 |
| SIWI | 26 | 3.33 | 0.61 | 25 | 3.53 | 0.97 | |
| Certain | BAU | 24 | 3.07 | 0.54 | 23 | 2.87 | 0.59 |
| SIWI | 26 | 2.76 | 0.60 | 25 | 2.79 | 0.64 | |
Outcomes represents the mean of a 6-point scale (1–6), from strongly disagree to strongly agree.