The purpose of the present study was to report on the development of a new instrument, the Attitude Toward Educational Measurement Inventory (ATEMI). Undergraduate teacher education majors (N= 331) from a research university in the Midwest completed the ATEMI. Results showed scores for the subscales had high internal consistency reliability (alphas ranged from .88 to .92) and moderate stability reliability (test-retest correlations ranged from .60 to .72). Interscale correlations indicated the three scales represent related, yet unique, aspects of students' attitudes toward measurement.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Barnes, L.L.B., & Bryant, N. C. (1996). What students think about a measurement course and role of locus of control. Manuscript in preparation.
2.
Cohen, J. , & Cohen, P. (1975). Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
3.
Conrad, K. S. , & Tracy, D. M. (1992). Lowering preservice teachers' mathematics anxiety through an experience-based mathematics methods course (ED355099).
4.
Feinberg, L. B. , & Halperin, S. (1978). Affective and cognitive correlates of course performance in introductory statistics. Journal of Experimental Education, 46, 11-18.
5.
Gorsuch, R. L. (1983). Factor analysis (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
6.
Kelly, W. P. , & Tomhave, W. K. (1985). A study of math anxiety/math avoidance in preservice elementary teachers. Arithmetic Teacher, 32(50), 51-53.
7.
Liebert, R. M. , & Moffis, L. W. (1967). Cognitive and emotional components of test anxiety: Distinction and some initial data. Psychological Reports, 20, 975-978.
8.
Plake, B. S. , Impara, J. D., & Fager, J. J. (1993). Assessment competencies of teachers: A national survey. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 6(1), 21-27.
9.
Widmer, C. C. , & Chavez, A. (1982). Math anxiety and elementary school teachers. Education, 102, 272-276.
10.
Wise, S. L. (1985). The development and validation of a scale measuring attitudes toward statistics. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 45, 401-405.
11.
Wise, S. L. , Lukin, L. E., & Roos, L. (1991). Teacher beliefs about training in testing and measurement. Journal of Teacher Education, 42(1), 37-42.
12.
Wood, E. F. (1988). Math anxiety and elementary teachers: What does research tell us?For the Learning of Mathematics, 8(1), 8-13.
