International Journal of Applied Science and Technology

ISSN 2221-0997 (Print), 2221-1004 (Online) 10.30845/ijast

 

Reliability and Validity Testing of a New Scale for Mesuring Attitudes toward Electronics and Electrical Constructions Subject
Sofia D. Anastasiadou, Lazaros Anastasiadis

 

Abstract
The aims of this paper are to determine the validity and reliability of SATEECS scale as an instrument to measure students’ attitudes that monitors affective components relevant to learning the disciple of electronics and electrical construct and its impact on students’ career in a Greek sample came from department of Electronics of the Technological Institute of Western Macedonia in Greece. Initially, it was consisted of 30 items concerning 5 conceptual subscales which measure students’ attitudes concerning Emotions toward the disipline, Cognitive Competence, Value of the disipline, Difficulty of the disipline, Sufficiency of laboratory of instructive material. In particular, the paper reports the responses of 198 Greek students from the department of Pre-school Education of the Western Macedonia University in Greece. The results of the present study provide the final scale, which is consisted of the all the 30 items of the initial SATEECS Scale and for which strong evidence was ascertained.

 

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