Developing a Scale to Measure Students’ Attitudes toward Science
Theaim of this study is to develop a science attitude scale (SAS). For thatpurpose, the literature review has been done for suggestions for creatingscales and a new draft scale developed. The draft scale was analyzed byspecialists and a pilot study is done after its approval by experts. The SAS ispr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020-01-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education |
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| Online Access: | https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/892763 |
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| Summary: | Theaim of this study is to develop a science attitude scale (SAS). For thatpurpose, the literature review has been done for suggestions for creatingscales and a new draft scale developed. The draft scale was analyzed byspecialists and a pilot study is done after its approval by experts. The SAS isprepared with 21 items and among these, 11 items are reverse-coded. The SASconsists of Likert-type items. The sample of the study consists of 154 collegestudents studying at the Faculty of Education, Elementary Science Education,and Elementary Education departments. Principal axis factoring with orthogonalrotation (varimax) was used for exploratory factor analysis. Factor eigenvalueswere checked with respect to parallel analysis and numbers of the factors weredetermined with respect to the analysis. Items that did not serve the purposeof the scale were omitted from the SAS. The finalized SAS’ Cronbach alpha valueis .953. For confirmatory factor analysis data were collected from a differentsample which consists of university students who were studying at elementaryscience education, elementary education, and electric electronic engineeringdepartments. Number of sample is 201. Confirmatory factor analyses run throughAmos 24.0 software. It is believed that SAS is a valuable contribution to thescience education field since it has unidimensional structure and proved itsitem discrimination power, and alongside with an excellent internal consistency.SAS also offers opportunity to develop multidimensional science attitude scale.For that purpose, original SAS and English version of it are provided inappendixes. |
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| ISSN: | 2148-7456 |