Attitude scale of statistics, development, reliability and validity studies

In this research, it has been aimed to develop a measurement tool that can determine the teacher candidates’ attitudes toward statistics. Study group of the research has consisted of 401 teacher candidates. In the study, item analysis based on correlation and exploratory factor analysis methods have been used and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient has been calculated. In the analysis of item analysis based on correlation made on 50 items formed during the development of the scale, non-significant items have been removed from the scale. Exploratory factor analysis has been performed for remaining 41 items to determine the construct validity of the scale. As a result of this analysis a 28-item scale describing three factors (value, relevance and difficulty) and the 42.428% of the variance has been obtained. According to the results of the analysis it can be said that this scale developed is valid and reliable.