Development And Application Of Geography Attitude Scale Using Rasch Model In South East Nigeria:- Ursula N. Akanwa
ABSTRACT
The study
was designed to develop an instrument that will be used to assess students'
attitude to geography using the Rasch model. The instrumentation design was
adopted for the study. The sample was 850 students from 78 secondary schools
using multistage sampling. An instrument called Geography Attitude Scale (GAS)
was validated using face, factorial and test-of-the-assumption-of-
unidimensional validation. Based on these, 38 items were discarded while the 42
items that met the set criteria formed the final instrument. Data were analysed
using Rasch rating scale model software WINSTEPS (version 3:81) to answer the
research questions and test hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The Rasch
model expectation fits were met by 40 out of 42 items. The item threshold
showed that 20 items were with positive values while 22 items had negative
measures. Item and person separation index revealed good spread of items and
persons from high difficulty to low difficulty level of endorsement and into
higher and lower levels of attitude respectively. It was recommended that
instrument GAS should be used to assess attitude of students towards geography
in secondary schools. Key words: Development, Geography,Attitude, Rasch Model.
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