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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Assessment, Testing and Applied Measurement
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1552082
Children's Attitudes Towards Water: A Scale Development Study
Provisionally accepted- 1 Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Ankara, Türkiye
- 2 Ankara University, Ankara, Ankara, Türkiye
- 3 Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Erzincan, Erzincan, Türkiye
In this study, it was aimed to develop a scale to determine children's attitudes towards water. The study included 865 children studying in the fourth to eighth grades. The items of the scale were formed based on the theoretical structure, a comprehensive review of existing scales related to attitudes towards water and expert evaluations.Content validity, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and reliability analyses were performed from psychometric analyses to determine the validity and reliability features. As a result of the study, a scale consisting of three factors (water cycle, importance of water, water-saving) and 24 items with acceptable validity and reliability values was obtained. The scale has reliable psychometric properties and can be used as an important assessment tool in evaluating children's attitudes towards water.
Keywords: child1, scale development2, attitude towards water3, water cycle4, importance of water5, water saving6
Received: 27 Dec 2024; Accepted: 04 Apr 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Fatih Aydoğdu, Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Erzincan, Erzincan, Türkiye
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