Instruments for Assessing Reading Attitudes: A Review of Research and Bibliography

Abstract

This review focuses on recent literature related to development of scales for measuring reading attitudes. The scales are reviewed under the headings of self-report instruments, direct observation, and projective techniques. General criteria for attitude scale construction related to item development, response set contamination, and statistical procedures are discussed. Conclusions relative to the state-of-the-art in attitude measurement as it relates to reading are presented. Also included are supplementary bibliographies listing sources on measurement and the affective domain, inventories and bibliographies of affective measures, attitude toward school, attitude measurement and instrument development, attitude measurement in subject areas and in relation to curriculum innovation, and attitude measurement in reading.