Reyjenie D.

Molina

MEASURING ATTITUDES

1. What are attitudes?

 A student's attitude is their tendency to respond a certain way towards something.
Naturally, the student's response can be on a continuum of positive to negative or
good to bad.
 Students' science attitudes refer to their positive or negative feelings and
predispositions to learn science. Science educators use attitude measures, in
conjunction with learning measures, to inform the conclusions they draw about
the efficacy of their instructional interventions.
 Attitude is a group of opinions, values and dispositions to act associated with a
particular object or concept.

2. How are attitudes measured?

 Researchers from a variety of disciplines use survey questionnaires to measure
attitudes. For example, political scientists study how people evaluate policy
alternatives or political actors. Sociologists study how one's attitudes toward a
social group are influenced by one's personal background.
Or it can be
 In order to measure attitudes, scales have been constructed consisting of short
statements dealing with several aspects of some issue or institution under
consideration. The statements involve favorable or unfavorable estimations,
acceptance or rejection.

3. Why is there a need to measure attitudes in education?

 Student’s attitudes refer to their positive or negative feelings and predispositions

to learn. It is important to measure attitude in education with learning measures,
to inform the conclusions they draw about the efficacy of their instructional
interventions.
 By measuring attitudes teachers/students can gather important information.
 Individuals can indicate their preference through their degree of agreement or
disagreement from the multiple -choice statements on the attitude measurement
scale.
 attitude measurement is the attempt to have respondents communicate their
feelings, attitudes, opinions, and evaluations in measurable form.