The Development of an Attitude Scale for Science and Technology Course

Abstract

The aim of this study is to develop a reliable and valid attitude scale in order to assess 6., 7.
and 8th grade middle school students’ attitudes towards science and technology course. The attitude factors
were developed by comparing existing attitudes scales and discussing with experts on the field. The sample
related to the development phase of the scale consists of 422 middle school students with three different
schools in the center of Üsküdar in stanbul. There are 10 positive and 10 negative attitude factors in the
scale. The Cronbach-Alpha internal integrity coefficient of the final version of the scale was found to be
0.8739 after factor analysis was carried out. The middle school students’ attitudes towards science and
technology course were explored by a three point Likert scale. The data were analyzed by SPSS software and
were evaluated at their attitudes towards science and technology course. In the final step it was examined to
problems during the development stage of the scale and given some suggestions about the different features
of the scale