Attitude Scale Towards Coding for Secondary School Students: A Validity and Reliability Study

Abstract

In this study, it was aimed to develop an attitude scale in order to determine the attitudes of middle school students towards coding. In this direction, firstly interviews were held with 10 students and two specialist teachers and items were created. Four teachers and two lecturers and one linguist were evaluated for the validity of the content and expert opinion. At last, the scale was applied to 292 students in 6th and 7th grade in two different secondary schools that received coding education in Malatya. In order to ensure the validity of the scale structure, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis was performed first. As the result of the exploratory factor analysis, a one factor scale consisting of 10 items was obtained. All 10 items in the scale together explain 55.352% of the variance. In confirmatory factor analysis, compliance indices were examined and found to be adequate. As a result, the internal consistency reliability coefficient of the developed coding scale was found to be .90 for the entire Cronbach Alpha scale. Therefore, the validity and reliability tests of the scale developed in this study have been made successfully and are ready to be used for measuring the attitudes of the students who have received coding education.