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Hodgin, Robert F. – 1984
Guidelines for the construction and use of an attitude instrument are presented, and the application of the instrument to measure student attitude toward economics is described. Attention is directed to the Likert-like summated forced-choice variety of attitude instrument, whereby attitude toward the object is inferred from the summed responses to…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Economics Education, Higher Education, Item Analysis
Maguire, Thomas O.; And Others – 1983
A study was commissioned to develop and validate a test to assess the attitudes of Alberta students towards the world of work. A revised instrument was created that used 75 items grouped into 15 scales, of five items each, measuring perceptions about available opportunities. During the validation field trial the instrument was administered to 467…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Education, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education
Berkay, Paul; And Others – 1994
Instructions for the administration of the Opinions about Deaf People Scale are given. This scale measures the beliefs of hearing adults about the capabilities of deaf adults. The somewhat ambiguous title of the instrument is designed to avoid leading respondents to respond in socially desirable ways. The instrument is based on misconceptions…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Attitudes, Beliefs
Fraser, Barry J.; Fisher, Darrell L. – 1983
This manual makes accessible several widely used instruments for measuring perceptions of psychosocial characteristics of classroom environment among school students and teachers. Background information, scoring procedures, validation data, and preferred and short forms of the Learning Environment Inventory, My Class Inventory, Classroom…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Evaluation, Outcomes of Education
Docking, Russell A. – 1979
The Profile of Real/Ideal Scholastic Motivation (PRISM) self-report instrument is included in the user's manual. PRISM is a set of 30 postulates which measures attitudes in an educational setting (i.e., educational self-theory). The instrument has a closed response format chosen on the grounds of reliability, validity, and reactivity. It is scaled…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Behavioral Science Research, Educational Attitudes, Educational Research
Henerson, Marlene E.; And Others – 1978
Most of the information in this booklet is useful for both formative and summative evaluations. The booklet offers information to help the evaluator develop skills in designing and using instruments to measure affective objectives or attitudes. The chapters cover: (1) an introduction to the measurement of attitudes and attitude change; (2)…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Affective Objectives, Attitude Measures, Classroom Observation Techniques