Adaptação e validação de uma escala de atitudes em relação à matemática

Abstract

This paper deals with the process of adaptation, application and validation of the AIKEN’s attitudes toward Mathematics scale (AIKEN, 1961; 1963, AIKEN e DREGER, 1961). The subjects were 2007 students (grades 3 to 8 and second grade) attending four public urban schools. A questionnaire, developed to attend the objectives of the wider research about attitudes (BRITO, 1996) was also developed. The scale present 20 itens and those were considered the variables submitted to statiscal analysis (p<.050). The results showed consistent relations between itens (alfa=.9494 e r = .080). The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure present a value = 0.97200 and also was applies the Principal-components Analysis (PCA) and two non-related and independent facors were been extracted. The ANOVA was also used and the mean obtained was M=52,514. Students that obtained a value superior were considered hose with positive attitudes. The results lead us to conclude that AIKEN’ scale is adequate to measure student’s attitudes toward Mathematics.