The development of a scale of attitudes toward tablet pc

The purpose of this study is to develop a reliable and a valid scale to
determine the attitudes of the primary students towards tablet pc. The items of
the scale were determined by scanning the relevant literature and taking the
opinions of the experts. The first draft of the scale including 49 items as a
result of content reliability was applied to 434 students chosen randomly from
the 7
th
and 8
th
grades of schools in the city, city centre and the villages of
Giresun in March 2012. It was revealed that the scale was clustered on single
factor which consisted of 31 items and the factor loading values were 0.470
and over. Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient was calculated to be 0.93 for
the reliability of the scale.