The Children's Attitudes toward the Environment Scale, developed by Musser and Malkus (1994), gave Cronbach a .73 and .83 at pretest and 3-wk. later for 274 children and a test-retest r of only .47. While Cronbach alpha was similar to the value reported by the test developers, it is close to the low end of acceptability.
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