Preliminary work on the development of a science attitude scale for Jamaican high school students
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Jan. 1983
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This paper describes, in some detail, stages in the development of a Science Attitude Scale for Jamaican 10th grade students. The statistical techniques employed with the original item pool (and which resulted in a 36-item scale being proposed as a suitable instrument for the purpose intended) are discussed. Reliability and preliminary validation exercises are also reported, and proposals for further refinement of the scale are outlined