ATMI TO MEASURE THE MATHEMATICS ATTITUDE IN ELEMENTARY STUDENTS

Siska Nur Rahmawati, Muh. Faathir Husain

Abstract


Character education could not be separated from the affective sphere or student attitudes. Students 'attitudes have been known to be influenced the students' activeness and achievement toward mathematics learning. Some instruments have long been developed to measure students' mathematical attitudes such as Attitudes Toward Mathematics Inventory (ATMI) that developed by Tapia & Marsh. The purpose of this research is to analyze the construct validity of ATMI. Instruments were distributed to 150 students at 6th grade elementary school. Confirmatory Factor Analysis were used to see the good model for dimensions in mathematics attitude. This validation tried to reveal the suitability of the instruments to measure the elementary students' mathematics attitude in the Yogyakarta context.

Keywords: Mathematics attitude, ATMI, Construct Validity, CFA


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