@article{MAKHILLTSS20083221883, title = {Development and Validation of the Students` Attitudes Toward Social Studies Scale (SAT3S)}, journal = {The Social Sciences}, volume = {3}, number = {2}, pages = {185-188}, year = {2008}, issn = {1818-5800}, doi = {sscience.2008.185.188}, url = {https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?issn=1818-5800&doi=sscience.2008.185.188}, author = {Folajogun V. Falaye}, keywords = {Validation,social studies,students,SAT3S}, abstract = {Research focusing attitudes of students toward Social Studies have dealt with interest and usefulness of the subject. There are little or no validated instruments to measure other dimensions of students` attitudes toward the subject. The purpose of this study is to develop an instrument for measuring junior secondary school students` attitudes toward Social Studies. Based on an earlier study and literature search, items initially generated were content validated, and yielded a 62-item instrument. The instrument was later on administered to 1,630 students in the final year of the Junior Secondary School. Students responded to each item on a 4-point Likert type scale ranging from strongly agree - 4, agree-3, disagree-2 to strongly disagree - 1. Factor analysis yielded 4 dimensions. The entire scale yielded a reliability of 0.93, while its sub-scales` reliability indices range between 0.73 and 0.89.} }