The development and validation of the Survey of Attitudes Toward Research Methods

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Students' attitudes toward research methods may affect their learning approaches and outcomes in such courses. The four studies in this dissertation developed and provided evidence for the validity of the Survey of Attitudes Toward Research Methods (SATRM), a measure with which students' attitudes toward research methods can be better understood. The first objective was to develop the measure, including adaptation of items from an existing measure, the Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (Schau, Stevens, Dauphinee, & Del Vecchio, 1995), to reflect research methods, and determining the factor structure and the questions best representing those factors. The SATRM was then administered to two new samples of students and multiple analyses were used to examine factorial and construct validity. Research methods instructors' perceptions of students' attitudes toward research methods were assessed to explore any discrepancy between faculty perceptions' and students attitudes. Exploratory ana

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