Abstract:

The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool that measures the attitudes of secondary school students towards coding. The literature related to the items of the measurement tool was scanned, and one open-ended question was asked about what coding means to the ten students about the coding. By using the data obtained, 5-point Likert-type pool with 55 items was created. Factor load values of the items of the scale showed a distribution between .510 and .831. As a result of the content validity, the draft scale which was reduced to 53 items was applied to the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students in 675 secondary schools from a total of 8 schools. The KMO value of the developed scale is ,96 and the Bartlett’s test value is x2 = 8970.78; sd = 1378 (p <, 01). In item analysis, item-total correlation coefficients of 47 items in single-factor scale ranged from .60 to .76, with differences between the average scores of the upper 27% and the lower 27%. The Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient of the scale was found to be .93. As a result of factor analysis, it was determined that 47 items were collected in one factor and explained 56.75% of the total variance of the scale. According to the confirmatory factor analysis, when the fit indices were examined, it was found that the single factor structure of the scale had an acceptable compliance level. It is thought that the coding attitude scale developed in this study will contribute to the researches.

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