Systematic Review of STEM Attitude Measures

Abstract

The aim of this review was to identify measurement tools used to assess students’ attitudes towards science, technology, engineering, and/or mathematics (STEM) in publications, and evaluate their usefulness and appropriateness based on reported psychometric properties. Researchers look to also evaluate the content/subject area coverage as well as the attitude construct coverage of identified measures. Electronic databases were searched for peer-reviewed articles that utilized a STEM attitude measurement tool with elementary or high school students. Publications were examined for reported psychometric properties of tools and the quality of each measure was evaluated using the psychometric grading framework (PGF). A total of 104 STEM attitude measures were identified within the literature. Many (n = 83) identified measures lacked pertinent reliability and/or validity data and could not be evaluated using the PGF within the current review. Fifteen measures were evaluated, with eleven receiving the highest overall grade of “Good” using the PGF

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