A Scale for Measuring Student Attitudes Toward Selected School Factors
- 1 December 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Educational and Psychological Measurement
- Vol. 34 (4) , 971-976
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001316447403400431
Abstract
This article presents details of construction and initial validation of a Likert scale for assessing attitude toward six categories of school life with particular emphasis on school lunch. The scale was designed for use in a research project concerned with status of school lunch in North Carolina. The purposes were: (1) to measure attitude as it exists; (2) to measure change in attitude subsequent to nutrition education; and (3) to study relationships between attitude and acceptability of school-served food. The scale has been used for three successive years for obtaining data on six areas of school life from both elementary and high school students.Keywords
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