• D.Niranjan
• Dr.A. Joakim

Attitude scale construction involves designing a tool to measure individuals' attitudes toward specific topics. It includes defining the construct, selecting items, ensuring reliability and validity, and analyzing responses. The scale helps quantify subjective feelings, beliefs, and evaluations systematically.The components of attitude are commonly described using the ABC model, which includes: 1. Affective Component: This refers to the emotional feelings or sentiments towards an object, person, or situation (e.g., liking, dislike, anger). 2. Behavioral Component: This involves the actions or intentions to act in a certain way toward the attitude object (e.g., approaching, avoiding).3. Cognitive Component: This includes the beliefs, thoughts, and knowledge a person has about the object (e.g., thinking something is good, bad, or beneficial). These three components work together to form an individual's overall attitude. Likert scale is used for the present study. The Likert scale includes statements that reflect varying degrees of favorability or disfavor with respect to the particular aspect. For this research, a three-point scale focusing on Attitude towards History Subject was developed and standardized by the researcher, under the guidance of the supervising teacher. This paper is attempt to construct and validate a tool for assessing attitude towards history among secondary students. For this purpose a collection of fifty questions regarding the attitude towards history covering five dimensions of viz. confidence, anxiety, value, enjoyment and motivation. These gathered fifty questions where undergone pilot study with ninth standard of secondary students in two districts in Kerala. On the basis of index of difficult and index of discrimination values four six questions have been chosen. The reliability and validity also been for this test. Hence a complete and fully fledged scale on attitude towards history has been constructed and validated through this study and it will be enough tool to measure the ability towards history of secondary students.

Attitude, Attitude towards history, Secondary school students.

"Construction and validation of scale on Attitude towards History", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 11, page no.g719-g729, November-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2411677.pdf

"Construction and validation of scale on Attitude towards History", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 11, page no. ppg719-g729, November-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2411677.pdf