The Adaptation of the Scale of Attitude Towards Computer Into Turkish for Middle and Secondary School Students

This study aimed to develop a
Turkish scale, which is reliable, valid and meets the current requirements for
assessing the attitudes of students towards computers. That is why, the scale
of students’ attitude towards computers (SATC), which originally belongs to Teo
(2008), was adapted into Turkish. When it comes to methodology part of the
study, the scale was administered to a total of 1678 students enrolled in
primary or secondary school located in Ankara. After Confirmatory Factor
Analysis (CFA) was performed, it was ascertained that the scale consisted of 20
items and 3 factors (computer enjoyment, computer importance and computer
anxiety). The Cronbach Alpha and Omega values of the scale were found out to be
0.83 and 0.95 respectively. The findings and implications based on these
findings were discussed in a more detailed way in the full paper.