A Scale for Measuring Student Attitudes Toward Selected School Factors

Abstract

This article presents details of construction and initial validation of a Likert scale for assessing attitude toward six categories of school life with particular emphasis on school lunch. The scale was designed for use in a research project concerned with status of school lunch in North Carolina. The purposes were: (1) to measure attitude as it exists; (2) to measure change in attitude subsequent to nutrition education; and (3) to study relationships between attitude and acceptability of school-served food. The scale has been used for three successive years for obtaining data on six areas of school life from both elementary and high school students.