Development and Validation of Students' Attitude towards Science Scale (SATSS) for 7th-Grade Students

Abstract

Science education is attracting increasing attention, and several researchers focus on the issue of the attitude toward science, but there is still no consistent conclusion. Due to its strong relationship to the growth of a society's economy, science education is a crucial subject for students to learn. As attitude is a complicated concept, the primary studies' use of various operationalization methods for measuring it may have produced inconsistent results. In this research, the main objective was to develop and validate a scale to measure the students' attitudes toward science of 7th-grade students. Students' Attitude towards Science Scale (SATSS) has four sub-factors: SIN, SIQ, KLS, and COLLA. In this research, the researcher follows the five steps (development and validation of test, findings, conclusion, and recommendations). The initial draft consisted of four sub-factors and 31 statements. The validity and reliability of the scale were ensured by using specific criteria. CFA was also run by using SPSS and Amos 24. After running the CFA, seven (7) statements were deleted from the scale. After that, the final Students' Attitude towards Science Scale (SATSS) comprised 24 statements. The results consequently provided evidence to use the Students' Attitude towards Science Scale (SATSS) to measure students' attitudes toward science of 7th-grade students.