The Development of an Instrument for Measuring Scientific Attitudes of Elementary School children

국민학생의 과학적 태도 측정을 위한 도구 개발

  • Published : 1994.12.30

Abstract

The purpose of this survey was to develop the scale for measuring scientific attitudes. This instrument was contain 37 items of five-point Likert format. This survey is designed to measure scientific attitudes of elementary school 3-6 grade. The main results of this survey are as follows: (1) The internal consistency(reliability) was estimated using Cronbach ${\alpha}$ coefficient. The ${\alpha}$ coefficient was 0.91. (2) Male students exhibited more positive attitudes than females according to 2-Way ANOVA. (3) The interaction effect of sex and grade is not significant in level ${\alpha}=.05$. (4) The constructed scale was administered to 343 childrens in grade 3 to 6 of 8 elementary schools in Seoul and Kyeung-gi province.

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