A Study on Developing an Attitude Scale to Measure  the Attitude of Secondary School Teachers towards  Teaching–Learning Process

Dr Shyamal Kumar Biswas

Volume : III, Issue : I, January - 2013

A Study on Developing an Attitude Scale to Measure the Attitude of Secondary School Teachers towards Teaching–Learning Process

Dr Shyamal Kumar Biswas

Abstract :

This paper shows the procedure of development and standardization of an attitude scale to measure the secondary school teachers’ attitude towards teaching–learning process. The research was carried out with 380 in–service teachers in which 199 were male teachers and 181 were female teachers at Purulia district in West Bengal. This five point likert type scale was developed through different steps like literature review, identification of dimension, collection of statements, selection of statements, preparation of the preliminary form of the tool, try out, item analysis, preparation of the final form of the tool, administration of the tool, determination of reliability and determination of validity. After critically study the related literature of teaching–learning process five dimensions namely teacher, learner, methodology, motivation and curriculum were selected for developing the scale. Finally 31 items were retained in the final form of the scale after try out which is related to all the five dimensions. The newly constructed scale was administered on the selected sample to determine the reliability and validity of the scale. It was found that the scale would be reliable and valid to measure the attitude of the secondary school teachers towards teaching–learning process.