Adaptation of Biology Attitude Questionnaire to Turkish

Abstract

The aim of this study was to adapt ‘Biology Attitude Questionnaire’ (Prokop, Tuncer, & Chudá, 2007) into Turkish. Participants were 242 high school students from Ankara, Turkey. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were performed in order to determine the structural validity of the six dimensional scale. As a result, the final structure of the scale was found to be consisting of three factors and 22 items. The Alpha coefficients of the three factors were found to be 0.882 for the first factor- importance of biology, 0.854 for the second factor- progress of biology lessons and 0.828 for the third factor- interest toward biology.