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In this study, it has been targeted to be develop a scale to determine attitudes of secondary school students towards science and technology. Based on the research results, the scale was prepared in a 5 point likert type. 40 items prepared in scale contains 24 positive 16 negative items. To determine the content validity of the scale was analyzed by three lecturers and three science teachers. It has also been asked to point out the not understood items in the scale applied to 20 secondary school students. Necessary changes have been made according to the experts’ opinion and the students' answers. Scale organized for the construct validity and reliability study of the scale has been applied to 272 secondary school students. The scale which aimed to determine secondary school students' attitudes towards science and technology have been developed based on three theoretical dimensions. The dimensions of the scale are; liking science and technology; curiosity towards science and technology; associating daily life to science and technology. In this context, exploratory factor analysis was conducted to demonstrate the scale's factorial design. In the analysis results, KMO value was determined to be .874. When Bartlett's test of sphericity results also examined, were found to be significant in the chi-square value obtained (x 2 (780)=3601.820; p<.01). In respect of, it was accepted that the data were acquired from the multivariate normal distribution. Their contribution to the total variance of these components is 61.77%. The results of the reliability study of the scale's Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient was calculated as .900. Scale developed according to the obtained data were valid and reliable.

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