This absolute scale contains nine times, each of which consists of a 100 millimeter vertical line with small division marks every 25 millimeters with the words "high" at the top and "low" at the bottom of the line. Above each of the vertical lines is a word or phrase. For the second grade scale these words are: arithmetic, counting, adding,…

This second grade scale contains ten items related to arithmetic and one item related to each of the following topics: reading, art, and playing. The third grade scale, which is not included, follows a similar format although the items do differ somewhat in content. Each question is followed by five boxes of succeedingly smaller size. The child…

This ipsative scale is composed of triads of statements concerning school tasks. The tasks are: write a story, write the alphabet, read a story, paint a picture, add numbers, subtract numbers, and write the numbers from 1 to 20. The triples are composed with each of the three arithmetic tasks combined with all possible pairs of the four…

Five scales designed to measure the attitudes of young children toward arithmetic, reading, and art were developed. Two of the scales (Picture and Forced Choice) were ipsative in nature; the remaining three (Millimeter, Box, and Semantic Differential) allowed the child to express a more absolute attitude about each activity. The scales were…