Development Study of Attitude Scale towards Reading Book about Environmental Issues

Abstract

The aim of this research is to develop an attitude scale toward reading book about environmental issues. Teacher candidates’ attitude towards reading book about environmental issues has great important for environmental education. Therefore, it was thought that developing a scale was necessary to determine the attitudes of teacher candidates towards reading book about environmental issues. The sample of research was the teacher candidates from the elementary department of education faculty in Siirt University 267 students participated in the research study. Development of the scale had following four stages: preparing the item pool, talking to experts, application and calculating the validity and reliability. Factory analysis revealed that there are three subscale. Cronbach-alpha reliability was calculated as 0.87 for the 20 item. For each subscale, the Cronbach-Alpha coefficient was calculated as 0.92, 0.82, and 0.57 respectively. At the result of the study, an attitude scale which is including 20 item five Likert type scale was developed.