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ERIC Number: ED604203
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Apr-29
Pages: 25
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Development and Validation of an Instrument Assessing Preschool Children's Attitude Toward Science
Reid, Tingting
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Antonio, TX, Apr 27-May 1, 2017)
Children's development of attitudes about science begins early. However, little is known regarding how children feel about science in the preschool years. The lack of a psychologically sound instrument that can appropriately capture young children's attitude towards science is another challenge faced by early childhood science researchers. The present study attempts to define and investigate an instrument used to measure preschool students' science attitudes by a) providing a clear definition of the construct (its items and their correspondence to the proposed construct to be measured); b) by examining the reliability of the items defining the measure; and c) by demonstrating the validity of the measure through examining its psychometric properties with preschool children.
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hawaii
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