Abstract
The Attitude toward Education Scale developed by Glassey in 1945 was administered to two samples of participants from two different geographical areas of the United States. The scale had no previous reliability or validity data. There were two goals: (1) to determine if such a dated instrument can still be used to measure attitudes toward education today and (2) to compare the attitude toward education of university students from two culturally different universities: A university in California and a university in Mississippi. An analysis of the item-to-total correlations for the two samples showed that 9 of the original items could be dropped from the instrument in the California sample and 8 items from the Mississippi sample. The reliability for the reduced scale was .88 for the Mississippi sample and .82 for the California sample. Analyses also showed that the modified scale for females and males differed in reliability. A factor analysis of both samples gave a 6-factor solution. The underlying structure for the scale was different between the two regional samples.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 413-424 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | North American Journal of Psychology |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| State | Published - Jun 2008 |
| Externally published | Yes |