A Study of Scale Development on Primary School Students’ Attitudes towards Project Based Learning

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to develop an attitude scale which intends to measure primary
school students’ attitudes towards Project Based Learning. A 30 item trial form of the Project Based Learning
Attitude Scale was constructed. For this, related literature was reviewed for the learning outcomes of Project
Based Learning and these outcomes were used for the construction of the items of the scale. The trial form was
administered to totally 698 participants who were fourth grade primary school students in Mersin and Adana.
Item scale correlations were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient. As a result of exploratory factor
analysis with Promax rotation, a single factor structure with two components and 15 items were obtained. While
alpha reliability of the scale was obtained as 0.967, the reliability of the components, 0.93 and 0.83 were
obtained respectively. The results of CFA indicated that factor structure fit with the data. It is concluded that the
scale is reliable and valid tool for measuring the attitudes of the students towards project based learning.