Psychometric reevaluation of the scientific attitude inventory-revised (SAI-II)

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 600-616

  Lichtenstein, Michael J ^a   Owen, Steven V ^a   Blalock, Cheryl L ^a   Liu, Yan ^a   Ramirez, Kacy A ^a   Pruski, Linda A ^a   Marshall, Carolyn E ^a   Toepperwein, Mary Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Evaluation and theory; General science; Statistics multivariate; Survey

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS;

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS (CFA)]; SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE INVENTORY (SAI;

STUDENTS;

EID: 43949118813     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20244     Document Type: Article

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