The ability to conduct valid assessment of teachers’ attitude towards teaching of a technical course is important as teachers’ attitude influences the quality of teaching and students’ learning experience. This paper focuses on the development and validation of an instrument for assessing technical teachers’ attitudes towards teaching engineering drawing. The study used a developmental research...

The purpose of this study was to explore the predictors of negative attitudes towards learning English from L2 learners’ points of view. A mixed methods research approach was adopted with a sequential exploratory design, followed by an endorsement phase. Eighteen high school students in Fars province (Iran) were interviewed on the sources of negative attitudes towards learning English. Based on...

This study aimed to investigate the latent constructs in the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale using a research context of Japanese undergraduates who learn English as a foreign language. The study conducted both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis against two different groups of Japanese undergraduate students. First, exploratory factor analysis was used to extract factors from...

Results The proposed number of factors to extract depended on the method employed. Velicer’s Minimum Average Partial test suggested one factor, the Cattell’s scree test and parallel analysis suggested two factors, and the second eigenvalue of 1.04 also suggested two factors. Exploratory factor analysis demonstrated that the 2-factor OHS had most of the items saliently loading either of the two ...

Computer self-efficacy is an often studied construct that has been shown to be related to an array of important individual outcomes. Unfortunately, existing measures of computer self-efficacy suffer from several deficiencies, including criterion contamination, outdated wording, and/or inadequate psychometric properties. For this reason, the current article presents the creation of a new compute...

This accepted manuscript has been modified slightly from the format in which it was originally submitted (i.e. tables and figures have been inserted into the main text). The monitoring-blunting theory of coping suggests that when faced with a threatening situation, individuals can respond by either monitoring or avoiding (blunting) threatening information. The current study sought to validate a...