Abstract

The current study details the creation of a new scale for measuring preservice teachers' positive affect for science, the Preservice Elementary Teacher Affect Scale for Science (PETAS-S). This new instrument is designed specifically to measure the level of positive affect towards the subject of science in preservice elementary teachers. Confirmatory factor analysis reveals the instrument loads on the single factor, positive affect. Reliability is robust, with Cronbach's alpha of .96. Positive affect has shown to predict future levels of engagement in domain specific academic subjects (Ainley & Ainley, 2011) and is expected to aid preservice teachers in understanding the complex relationship between their students' interest and enjoyment of science with their own. This research contributes to the important role of emotion in preservice teachers' attitudes toward the subject of science and how it may affect the way they teach it to their future students.

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Graduation Date

2016

Semester

Spring

Advisor

Gill, Michele

Degree

Master of Arts (M.A.)

College

College of Education and Human Performance

Department

Teaching, Learning and Leadership

Degree Program

Applied Learning and Instruction

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application/pdf

Identifier

CFE0006198

URL

http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0006198

Language

English

Release Date

5-15-2017

Length of Campus-only Access

1 year

Access Status

Masters Thesis (Open Access)

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