DEVELOPMENT OF A LIKERT TYPE ATTITUDE SCALE TOWARDS INTERNET USAGE

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ezel Tavşancıl
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hafize Keser
University of Ankara Faculty of Educational Sciences
hkeser@education.ankara.edu.tr

Abstract

In this research, a measurement instrument to measure the attitudes towards internet usage is developed. The sample space is 370 students who are re-ceiving teacher training. At the beginning of the study, 132 items were pro-posed and item-total and item-remainder and test-retest correlation coefficients were calculated. Based on the analysis, insignificant items were discarded and factor analysis were carried out on the remaining 76 items in order to test structural validity. The result was a scale composed of 31 items which explained 49.964%of the total variance and 6 factors (the usage of internet in instruction, research, social interaction, communication, sharing of knowledge and to enjoy from usage of internet in instruction). Attitude point averages were tested for different variables in order to evaluate struc-tural validity. Correlation between Social Desirability Scale points were cal-culated in order to estimate the effect of the Attitude Scale Towards the Computer and Social Desirability for the evaluation of the similar and differ-ent scales validity of the scale. To enhance the reliability of the scale, it was applied again after three weeks, and test retest correlation coefficient were found to be 0.71. Cronbach a (0.89) coefficients were also calculated for the whole scale and the for the 6 subscales which resulted from the varimax ro-tation, again for reliability. The results clearly show that the scale is valid and reliable.

Keywords
Internet, internet usage, attitude, scale.

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