Abstract

The aim of this examination is to develop an attitude scale for measurement of scientific attitude of
upper primary students. The development was carried out by researchers with the help of 20 subject
area experts, and 240 students of approved schools of state of Rajasthan State/central boards BE/CBSE
board studying in classes 6–8. The study consists of five parts, namely literature review, components of
scientific attitude to be measured, development of scale, expert opinions, administration of scale and
computation of reliability and validity. For identifying the components of scientific attitude an extensive
review of related was carried out and five components were identified. An initial draft of scientific
attitude scale (SAS) comprising of 65 items was forwarded to 20 experts for Face and Content validity.
Subsequently Content Validity Ratios were calculated and Final SAS tool comprising of 62 items was
formulated. This was then administered to 20 percent (48) of total sample (240 students) students.
Reliability of the test was calculated for SAS using Split Half (Odd-Even) Correlation and split half
reliability to the correlation coefficient yielded a reliability coefficient of .882. Tool had five aspects on
scientific attitude for which separately Pearson‟s correlation has been found out to be 0.799. Final
outcome of the study. The scale with 62 statements was ready to be used.

Keyword: Scientific attitude, scientific attitude scale, SS-SAS, content validity ratio, statistical analysis

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