This study aims at developing an environmental attitude scale based on two themes. The scale items were prepared by the researchers with the help of literature records and consultations with two experts. A survey consisting of 20 attitude questions was later applied to 208 teacher candidates who were selected among students attending Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University. Following the evaluation of the survey questions, 6 of the scale items previously identified were discarded. An Environmental Attitude Scale composing of 14 Likert type sentences was developed. KMO and Cronbach-alpha values of this scale were found to be 0.763 and 0.733 respectively. The Barlett Test Significance Value of this scale was smaller than 0.001. At the end of confirmatory factor analyses, the goodness of fit criterias were found to be; X2 /sd: 1.88; RMSEA: 0.066, SRMR: 0.062, CFI:0.90, IFI:0.90, GFI:0.92, AGFI:0.87.)
Key words: Environment, attitude scale, explanatory factor analyses, confirmatory factor analyses, structural equation modeling
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