Analyzes the complexities of the concept of attitude: the origin and history; subcomponents; related concepts including beliefs, opinion, and values; traditional trilogy--cognition, affection, and conation; and some controversies. (YP)

Investigated were 286 third-year elementary education students to determine instructor characteristics which most enhanced credibility in courses intended to develop a positive attitude toward teaching science. High credibility characteristics included: reference to practical activities, modeling teaching modes, past teaching experience,…

Study included a survey of science educators related to the need to teach science, and a review of the literature on the learning theory approach to attitude change. Hypothetical models of a credible science educator and of credible communication were established by the study. (MA)

Describes the design of an instrument to measure the attitudes of teachers toward metrication, and reports on its reliability and validity. (GA)

Reports the results of a study designed to investigate the status of the attitude of preservice elementary teachers toward science as measured by a Likert-type attitude scale. (JR)

Reviews sociopsychological literature as a means of defining attitude. Several explicit subcomponents (key elements) of the attitude concept were generated. This composite definition was used to generate conceptually sound approaches to research design and attitude measurement in science education and, in particular, science teacher education. (JN)

Investigated was the status of the science attitude of elementary teachers in Trinidad and Tobago as measured by a Likert-type instrument. Six variables, which included the effects of gender difference, teaching level, school type attended, geographic location, and mathematics and science courses taken, were analyzed. (DS)

Sixth grade boys and girls were compared with respect to their attitudes toward science and to their science achievement; results showed that boys attained a significantly higher attitude rating but that there were no significant differences in achievement of boys and girls. (DT)

Reports a study designed to assess the correlation of science knowledge and science attitude of third-year preservice elementary teachers (N=92) using Christman's Science From Concepts Achievement Test (SFCAT) and Shrigley's Science Attitude Scale for Preservice Teachers. A low positive correlation was found to exist between science attitude and…

Reports on the development, administration, and evaluation of a low anxiety testing model for use with preservice science teachers. (CP)

Reported is a study undertaken to examine an attitude paradigm that might be valid to use in initiating research on the modification of the attitudes of preservice elementary teachers toward science and the teaching of science. The subjects were 286 third year preservice elementary teachers enrolled in the fall term of 1972, at four teacher…

Reports on the development and use of an open-ended assessment instrument to determine elementary school teachers' reasons for not teaching science. These reasons were hypothesized to be related to Katz's functions: (1) utilitarian; (2) knowledge; (3) value-expressive; and (4) ego-defensive. In the sample of 449 teachers, 20 per cent of the sample…