Redesign a Measure of Students' Attitudes Toward Science: A Longitudinal Psychometric Approach

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Abstract

Capturing measures of student attitudes toward science has long been a focus within the field of science education. There is considerable disagreement about whether attitudes toward science can be measured unidimensionally. However, even when it is agreed upon that the attitudes toward science construct should be measured along separate subscales, there is no consensus about which subscales should be used. We conducted factor analyses and longitudinal measurement invariance using 2,016 responses from 6th and 7th grade students, which supports that the subscales, anxiety and value and enjoyment, are two factors, independent of one another, and stable across time.

Authors

• Ji Hoon Ryoo, University of Virginia

• Angela D Skeeles-Worley, University of Virginia

• Robert H. Tai, University of Virginia