Turkish Adaptation Study of Attitudes towards Mathematics in Secondary School Students

This is a study of adaptation of the Scale for Assessing Attitudes towards Mathematics in Secondary Education (SATMAS) developed by Yá？ez-Marquina & Villardón-Gallego (2016) into Turkish. The study was conducted with data collected from 878 secondary school students. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were done so as to analyse the construct validity of the scale. The scale in its original form contained 19 items. In consequence of the analyses, one of the items was removed from the scale and thus the Turkish version of the scale contained 18 items. The factor structure formed a 3-factor model consistent with the original structure of the scale and with its items. Confirmatory factor analysis had the fit indices for the scale demanded in the literature. The Cronbach’s Alpha was calculated as 0.91 for the scale. The results obtained demonstrated that the scale was a useful, easy to use, valid and reliable instrument in assessing secondary school students’ attitudes towards mathematics