Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to adapt the Robotics Attitude Scale to Turkish. The scale was originally developed to determine the attitudes of middle school students towards the increasingly popular educational robotics applications. A total of 480 middle school students participated in the study. They were studying in private colleges in different provinces of Turkey and receiving a robotics education. As a result of an exploratory factor analysis, a valid and reliable scale with a total of 24 items under four factors was obtained as the short form of the original scale. The total variance of the scale was found to be 61.744%. The factors of the scale after the factor analysis emerged to be “Learning Desire” (α=.925), “Confidence” (α=.860), “Computational thinking” (α=.815) and “Teamwork” (α=.732). The convergent validity and the mean variance explained were calculated for the construct validity of the scale. The Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient and the composite reliability values were calculated for the reliability. It was determined that the scale that was obtained was valid and reliable in determining the attitudes of middle school students towards robotics activities.

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