A survey dataset of 3,627 fifth-grade students in eastern China, supporting research on the relationships between science achievement, views about scientific inquiry, and motivational factors. The data was collected by Yindie Li and published on figshare in 2026. It examines how family, social, and school support relate to science self-efficacy and four dimensions of students' views about scientific inquiry.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between contextual support and science self-efficacy based on survey measures mentioned in the description
- Model the mediating role of self-efficacy between support and inquiry views using structural equation modeling techniques
- Compare patterns of inquiry understanding across different student achievement groups as described in the study
- Investigate the prevalence of Naive, Mixed, and Informed views about evidence-based inquiry among elementary students
Strengths
- Large sample size of 3,627 fifth-grade students
- Survey design based on social cognitive theory and ecological systems perspectives
- Analysis includes structural equation modeling and bootstrapped mediation methods
- Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the sample from eastern China
Provenance
- Source
- figshare
- Collection Method
- Large-scale survey study
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-29 07:33:11; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Eastern China