FACTOR STRUCTURE OF THE “ATTITUDES TOWARD RESEARCH” SCALE

By Elena C. Papanastasiou. 2005

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SUMMARY Students at the undergraduate level usually tend to view research methods courses negatively. However, an understanding of these attitudes is necessary to help instructors facilitate the learning of research for their students, by enabling them to create more positive attitudes toward such courses. The aim of this study is to describe the development of an “attitudes toward research” scale and verify the dimensions of attitudes toward research among undergraduate students enrolled in introductory research courses. The basic hypothesis of this research study is that the concept of attitudes is multidimensional in nature. The sample of the study consisted of 226 students who had completed a research methods course. Based on a factor analysis, five factors of student attitudes toward research were identified. These were the factors of usefulness of research, anxiety, affect indicating positive feelings about research, life relevancy of research to the students’ daily lives, and difficulty of research.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Statistics and Probability

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Anxiety in undergraduate research methods courses: its nature and implications (2008, methodology): “The Attitudes Toward Research (ATR) scale (Papanastasiou 2005) as well as the Adult Manifest Anxiety Scale-College Version (AMAS-C) (Reynolds, Richmond, and Lowe 2003).”
Development and Validation of a Scale for Measuring Instructors' Attitudes toward Concept-Based or Reform-Oriented Teaching of Introductory Statistics in the Health and Behavioral Sciences (2010, methodology): “A similar finding was noted by Estrada et al. (2005), among pre-service teachers and their attitudes toward statistics, as well as Papanastasiou (2005), in a study of undergraduate students’ attitude toward research.”