The Social Sciences
ISSN: Online 1993-6125ISSN: Print 1818-5800
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.
How to cite this article:
Folajogun V. Falaye . Development and Validation of the Students` Attitudes Toward Social Studies Scale (SAT3S).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/sscience.2008.185.188
URL: https://www.makhillpublications.co/view-article/1818-5800/sscience.2008.185.188