The aim of this research is to develop an attitude scale toward reading book about environmental
issues. Teacher candidates attitude towards reading book about environmental issues has great important for
environmental education. Therefore, it was thought that developing a scale was necessary to determine the
attitudes of teacher candidates towards reading book about environmental issues. The sample of research was the
teacher candidates from the elementary department of education faculty in Siirt University 267 students
participated in the research study. Development of the scale had following four stages: preparing the item pool,
talking to experts, application and calculating the validity and reliability. Factory analysis revealed that there are
three subscale. Cronbach-alpha reliability was calculated as 0.87 for the 20 item. For each subscale, the
Cronbach-Alpha coefficient was calculated as 0.92, 0.82, and 0.57 respectively. At the result of the study, an
attitude scale which is including 20 item five Likert type scale was developed.
Key words: Environmental education, environmental attitude, reading book, teacher candidates,
|
