2020 Volume 44 Issue 4 Pages 353-366
In science education, it is important to make students realize the usefulness of science, and Super Science High Schools (SSH) are supposed to foster the attitude of students to utilize scientific knowledge and perspective proactively. It is therefore necessary to evaluate whether the efforts of SSH schools successfully foster expected attitudes. This study aimed to develop a science utilization orientation scale to assess the efforts of SSH schools. The results showed a factor structure as assumption with sufficiently high factor loadings. There were no DIF, ceiling effect, and floor effects, that would impair the validity of the scale, that we found in the results. The difference in the mean value between each group was consistent with the theoretical hypothesis. In conclusion, this scale is considered to be able to measure the science utilization orientation of SSH students and evaluate the efforts of SSH schools.
