TY  - JOUR
T1  - Determining Significant Components of Pittsburgh Freshman Engineering Attitudes
Scale Using Exploratory Factor Analysis among Engineering Students
AU - Lashari, Tahira Anwar AU - Alias, Maizam AU - Akasah, Zainal Abidin AU - Kesot, Mohd Jahaya 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 8
SP  - 1401
EP  - 1407
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2017.1401.1407
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2017.1401.1407
KW  - Attitude towards engineering education
KW  -factor analysis
KW  -diploma students
KW  -employed
KW  -non-cognitive
AB  - Student’s attitude towards the subject matter promotes continuing effort and persistent behaviour
towards the programme. As possessing a positive attitude towards engineering education directs to increase
in academic prosperity. However, prevalent practices in engineering education do not often consider
the non-cognitive learning needs. Therefore, this study investigates to identify how an attitude towards
engineering affects student’s perception towards the subject matter. Standard tool the pittsburgh freshman
engineering attitudes scale was adopted and employed. The study used quantitative survey design with a
purposive sampling strategy. The sample consisted of 70 diploma civil engineering students (26 male and 44
female). The obtained data on factor analysis using SPSS revealed seven extracted factors with 35 measurable
items. The highest factor 0.92 was found on item 46 whereas the factor 0.410 was found on item 41.
ER  -