Development of music lesson attitude scale

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop a scale to measure the attitudes towards music lessons for students of primary schools.  Processing steps in the development of a scale have been explained. In the process of developing the scale first of all a literature review was conducted and studied on similar scales. A pool of 35 items was prepared with the help of information from literature and contributions of professionals.  The scale was applied to 692 students. Factor analysis has been used to determine the structural validity of the scale. In the factor analysis, the main components analysis with varimax transformation has been used. For the reliability, inner co-efficiency has been employed and regarding this total matter correlations have been calculated Kaiser- Meyer Olkin value has been measured as 0.94 and the inner co-efficiency as 0.90. These results show that the scale worked on is a reliable and valid means to measure the attitudes of the students towards music lessons.