Table 1.
Psychometric quality of the instruments used in Spanish attitude toward science studies.
Table 2.
The original SSAS [21].
Fig 1.
Theoretical framework for scale validation, based on Polit & Yang [56] taxonomy.
Psychometric properties in grey quadrants were not measured in this study.
Table 3.
Original, translated and back-translated S-SSAS.
Table 4.
Pearson’s r correlation for criterion and construct validity and item-total correlation for internal consistency.
Table 5.
Attitudinal profiles towards school science according to gender variable SSAS.
Table 6.
Attitudinal profiles towards school science according to school type variable.
Table 7.
Intraclass correlation between S-SSAS constructs at Time 1 and Time 2.
Table 8.
Distribution of responses.
Table 9.
Descriptive statistics of translated SSAS items.