TABLE 2.

Spearman rank-order correlations between measures of attitudes toward and interest in science for the precourse survey, postcourse survey, and precourse to postcourse survey data^a

Scale	Grit	TOSRA enjoyment	TOSRA interest	TOSRA career	Positive perceptions	Negative perceptions
Correlations between precourse survey scales
Grit	1	0.295	0.282	0.28	0.24	−0.17
TOSRA enjoyment		1	0.66	0.69	0.55	−0.43
TOSRA interest			1	0.68	0.48	−0.4
TOSRA career interest				1	0.48	−0.35
Positive perceptions					1	−0.41
Negative perceptions						1
Correlations between postcourse survey scales
Grit	1	0.29	0.33	0.32	0.27	−0.28
TOSRA enjoyment		1	0.67	0.76	0.5	−0.42
TOSRA interest			1	0.71	0.57	−0.45
TOSRA career interest				1	0.49	−0.41
Positive perceptions					1	−0.43
Negative perceptions						1
Pre- to postcourse correlationsb
Grit	0.68	0.21	0.22	0.13	0.18	−0.12
TOSRA enjoyment	0.13	0.61	0.47	0.42	0.32	−0.34
TOSRA interest	0.14	0.51	0.7	0.49	0.4	−0.37
TOSRA career interest	0.11	0.5	0.49	0.62	0.35	−0.33
Positive perceptions	0.13	0.37	0.42	0.32	0.52	−0.38
Negative perceptions	−0.1	−0.26	−0.3	−0.2	−0.28	0.62

^aEach correlation is significantly different from 0 at the P < 0.05 level of significance.

^bPrecourse surveys are the columns, and postcourse surveys are the rows.